California Gold Rush Category
Trails to the West
Debate over Slavery Category
Technology
Miscellaneous
100
This is the state where the Gold Rush of 1849 started.
What is California?
100
These were two of the three types of animals that pulled wagons west.
What are oxen, mules, or horses?
100
This is what gave political power to the people.
What is popular sovereignty?
100
This was invented by Samuel Morse... dot dot dot, dash dash dash, dot dot dot... that means SOS.
What is the telegraph?
100
This novel was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, and was also the second most sold novel of the 1800s.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
200
This is a person who was searching for gold
What is a prospect?
200
The Santa Fe Trail was followed by an ancient trading route used by these people.
Who are the Native Americans?
200
This idea, is known for favoring the interests of one region over the interest of the entire country.
What is sectionalism?
200
This system in manufacturing employed young women to do the work in textile mills.
What is the Lowell System?
200
This act, created two territories which are now states. These territories were also responsible for deciding slavery through popular sovereignty.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
300
This location, named by the man who founded it, was the beginning point for the gold rush.
What is Sutter's Mill?
300
This location, was one of two main starting points for the Oregon Trail.
What is Council Bluffs, Iowa or Independence, Missouri?
300
This act was created to allow officials to arrest slaves in free areas.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
300
Eli Whitney invented this machine which changed America for both good and bad, pending what side you were on.
What is the cotton gin?
300
This man, led revolts in Kansas and Harper's Ferry against slavery.
Who is John Brown?
400
Created by this man, jeans were made for miners to be able to work in these conditions.
Who is Levi Strauss?
400
This animal, who's population was killed in the east, caused the Mountain Men to move west.
What are beavers?
400
Of the four things to come from this "agreement," California becoming a free state and slave trade in Washington D.C. being outlawed were two of them.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
400
The Clermont was the name of this first full-sized commercial one of these, which traveled up river.
What is the steamboat?
400
This slave's Supreme Court case ultimately determined that slaves were property, not people.
Who was Dred Scott?
500
Gold was worth this much in 1850 per ounce.
What is $20.67?
500
This man, led the charge of Mormon Trail, before he was killed and replaced.
Who is Joseph Smith?
500
This idea, named after the man who proposed it, said that slavery would not exist in the area known as Mexican Cession.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
500
Issac Singer invented this machine, still in usage today, allows many people to alter clothing
What is the sewing machine?
500
This state was the first state to secede from the Union in 1860.
What is South Carolina?
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