Story of US
What is the biggest construction project in the western world?
What is the Erie Canal?
Approx., how many people died in the Civil War?
What is 620,000 dead?
Which side won the early battles?
What is The South?
Prohibited slavery north of 36°, 30’. 4. "Imaginary Line"
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Why did Frederick Douglas have a better chance at escaping to freedom than other slaves?
What is reading and writing?
What gained more power after the war?
Federal Government
Considered the bloodiest day of the war.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
Eli whitney invented the____________
What is the cotton gin?
Nurse Clara Barton founded the ___________ after the Civil War.
What is the Red Cross?
States were no longer allowed to........
What is Secede?
A 3 day battle in PA and a turning point in the war.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
People get to vote for whether or not to allow slavery in the state.
What is popular sovereignty?
What were the two advances used by Lincoln to support the Union during the war?
What is a railroad and a Telegraph?
The period of time after the Civil War is known as....
What is Reconstruction?
The Union gained Controlled of the Mississippi.
What is Siege of Vicksburg?
This was the "last straw" for the Southern states and they began to secede.
What is the Election of 1860?
Name the General that led the South during the Civil War?
What amendment banned slavery?
What is the 13th Amendment?
Name the battle where Confederate troops forced the Union Army to Retreat?
What is the Battle of Bull Run?
Mexico ceded land to the US and accepted the Rio Grande as the southern border of Texas.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?