Westward Expansion
This connected the eastern rail network to the pacific coast.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
Maryland, Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina are known as this group of colonies.
What are the Southern Colonies?
This is the capital of New York.
What is New York City?
This was the largest of the confederate states.
What is Texas?
The third amendment of the constitution is about the right to not have these people in your home
What are soldiers?
This is the path Cherokee Indians were forced to take from Georgia to Oklahoma.
What is the trail of tears?
The Puritans were the main religious people of this group of colonies.
What are the New England Colonies?
This river starts in northern Minnesota and flows south into the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Mississippi river?
This lady helped slaves escape through the underground railroad prior to the beginning of the civil war.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
These are the three branches outlined by the constitution.
What are the executive, judicial, and legislative branches?
This group of people migrated to the US in large amounts during the California gold rush.
Who are Chinese immigrants?
Jamestown was the first US settlement and established in this colony.
What is Virginia?
The Grand Coulee Dam is built on this giant river that flows through Washington State.
What is the Columbia river?
This General occupied Atlanta in 1864.
Who is Sherman?
Both the 15th and 19th amendments grant US citizens this right
What is the right to vote?
What are denim jeans and cowboy hats?
The Boston Tea Party took place in this colony
What is Massachusetts?
A city in Massachusetts and the capital of Oregon are both name for the famous with trials that took place in the 1600s.
What is Salem?
This confederate ordered the Army of Northern Virginia to go home at the end of the war in April 1865.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
Article V spells out the procedures for making these changes to the constituion
What are Amendments.
This act encouraged westward settling by guaranteeing large amounts of land to people with the requirement they live there for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
This is the name of a famous rock located in Massachusetts.
What is Plymouth Rock?
El Paso, Texas was named for being a place to cross this river.
What is the Rio Grande?
Victory at the battle of Antietam allowed Lincoln to issue this statement, declaring all slaves to be free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This state is misspelled in the signatory section of the constitution - they forgot an "n"
What is Pennsylvania?