Completed in 1825, it runs 363 miles across New York State. It goes from Lake Erie to the Hudson River.
What is the Erie Canal?
100
Nation that controlled Florida during the War of 1812
What was Spain?
100
Pride in your country.
What is nationalism?
100
People who believed that slavery should end.
What were abolitionists?
100
Idea that people in the area of the Mexican Cession should vote to decide whether their state would be slave or free?
What is popular sovereignty?
200
Inventor of the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney
200
Group of men in Congress that wanted war with England
What were the "War Hawks"
200
Treaty with Spain that gave America and Britain control over the Florida and Oregon territories.
What is the Adams-Onís Treaty?
200
War hero of Tennesee who became president in 1828.
Who is Andrew Jackson
200
Nickname for Kansas in the period before the war.
What was "Bleeding Kansas"
300
Inventor who introduced interchangeable parts to America.
Who is Eli Whitney?
300
Section of the United States that became a leader in manufacturing and commerce.
What was the North?
300
Policy that warned European nations to stay out of the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
300
The use of political jobs as a reward for party loyalty.
What is the Spoil System.
300
Famous antislavery book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
What was Uncle Tom's Cabin?
400
Young, single women who worked for Boston Associates.
What are "Lowell Girls".
400
Man who led an attack on Harpers Ferry to get guns for a slave uprising.
Who was John Brown?
400
United States General that defeated the Seminoles.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
400
Act that sought peaceful negotiation of the exchange of Indian lands in the south for land in the Indian territory. (Oklahoma)
What is the Indian Removal Act.
400
Former slave that led thousands to freedom.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
500
The man who invented the steamboat.
Who is Robert Fulton.
500
Famous congressman from Kentucky nicknamed The Great Compromiser.
Who was Henry Clay?
500
An act that that split the northern district of Massachusetts in to its own state named Maine, so Missouri could the join the south as a slave state to keep the states balanced.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
500
The forced removal of Cherokee Indians from their native lands in Georgia?