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100
In 1661, a set of ‘’Codes’’ were made that denied these type of people basic fundamental rights and gave their owners permission to do as they saw fit.
What are "slave codes?"
100
He was a Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court during the Dred Scott case in 1857.
Who is Roger Taney?
100
An expression of the post-1812 nationalism energizing the U.S. that had two basic features: (1) Non-Colonization & (2) Non-Intervention.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
100
She was the native American daughter of Chief Powahatan and married John Rolfe, not to be confused with the Disney story of marrying Captain John Smith.
Who is Pocahontas?
100
These people revolted against Mexican rule and started a war, which gave way to California’s state flag today.
What is the Bear Fear Revolt?
200
This is a person who was granted charters of ownership by the king.
What is a Proprietor?
200
He is currently the face on the United States' penny and became the President of the United States in 1860, which sparked the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
This is any political leader who works his way up from the bottom to the top and considered desirable, such as Andrew Jackson who was born in the Carolina backwoods, was an orphan and fought in the Revolutionary War at the age of 13. Further, during Jacksonian democracy it ushered the idea of “universal white manhood suffrage.”
What is the "Common Man?"
200
This is the person on the 100 dollar bill that invented bifocal glasses and electricity.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
200
This is the agreement when Mexico sold the southwest of the United States to the United States.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
300
This was known as the period during the winter of 1609 to 1610 where colonists of Virginia died from hunger because they did not possess the skills that were necessary to obtain food in the real world.
What is "Starving Time?"
300
He was the General of the Confederates during the civil War and surrendered at the Appomattox Courthouse.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
300
This was a system set up by Andrew Jackson after being elected in 1828 that gave public offices to his loyal supporters.
What is the Spoils System?
300
He was the founder of Maryland and gave refuge to the persecuted Roman Catholics.
Who is Lord Baltimore?
300
He was the author of the Compromise of 1850, which outlawed slavery in Washington D.C. and made California a free state.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
400
He was a French explorer who sailed to the West indies, Mexico and Panama. He wrote many books telling of his trips to Mexico City and Niagara Falls and his greatest accomplishment was his exploration of the St. Lawrence River and his latter settlement of Quebec.
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
400
He was head of the Freedmen’s Bureau and founded and served as President of Howard University in Washington D.C.
Who is Oliver O. Howard?
400
It was called this because of an increased amount of voters during this election: 50% of eligible voters, which was 2x the number during the last election. This large turnout proved that the common people now had the vote.
What is the Revolution of 1828?
400
This woman was a famous religious dissenter whose ideas provoked an intense religious and political crisis in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Her ideas became known as heresy of antinomianism and she was ultimately banished from the colony.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
400
She freed slaves with the underground railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
500
He was a British general whose success in the Battle of Quebec won Canada for the British Empire, eventhough the battle was only 15 min long and he was killed in the line of duty. It was a decisive battle in the French and Indian War.
Who is James Wolfe?
500
He was a radical Republican congressman that tried to impeach President Andrew Johnson in 1868. He orchestrated the Congressional Reconstruction Plan.
Who is Thaddeus Stevens?
500
This is another term for slavery.
What is 'Peculiar Institution?'
500
He was the founder of Georgia in 1733. He established this colony as a buffer from Spanish Florida and because he was interested in prison reform.
Who is James Oglethorpe?
500
He believed in ending slavery and killed people over it during the event known as "Bleeding Kansas."
Who is John Brown?
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