Westward Expansion
Slavery/Abolition
Religion/Social Issues
Politics/Government
Civil War
100
This was discovered in California and caused thousands of people to relocate there.
What is gold
100
Slave labor was used in this region of the United States.
What is the South
100
Brigham Young moved the Mormons to this territory.
What is Utah
100
This person was elected president in 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln
100
These two governments fought in the Civil War.
What are the Confederacy and the Union.
200
Many Americans took wagons along this trail to reach the west coast and start a new life.
What is the Oregon Trail
200
President Abraham Lincoln made this executive order that stated all slaves "shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free."
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
200
This event caused the creation of many new denominations of Christianity.
What is the Second Great Awakening.
200
This state was the first to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina
200
This general surrendered on behalf of the confederacy.
Who is Robert E Lee
300
This was passed by the US Government and forced many Indians to be displaced from their homelands.
What is the Indian Removal Act
300
Many Northern states passed special legislation in order to avoid enforcing these federal laws.
What are the Fugitive Slave Acts
300
This event is viewed as the first event of the women's suffrage movement.
What is the Seneca Falls Conference
300
This state was declared a free state in the compromise of 1850.
What is California
300
This general led the attack on Fort Sumter.
Who is P.G.T. Beauregeard
400
On the first expedition to cross the western United States all the way to the Pacific Ocean, this man collected scientific data about the area.
Who is Meriwether Lewis
400
The Dred Scott Case decided that no black man, free or slave, could do this.
What is claim U.S. citizenship
400
Joseph Smith created this church.
What is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
400
Allowing Kansas and Nebraska to decide their own policies about slavery overturned the geographic boundaries set in this previous act.
What is the Missouri Compromise
400
This weapon was vital in the attack on Fort Sumter
What is artillery
500
The Transcontinental Railway connected the east coast to this city.
What is Sacramento, California
500
This issue causes a lot of controversy in Congress as new states were added to the Union.
What is the balance of free and slave states
500
These two women held the Seneca Falls Conference.
Who are Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
500
The Indian Removal Act was passed under this president.
Who is Andrew Jackson
500
This is the building in which the Confederacy's surrender was accepted.
What is Wilmer McLean's home
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