This was a way for slaves to escape to the north and freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
100
A runaway slave who was a conductor on the "underground railroad."
Who is Harriet Tubman?
100
The capital of this state is Boston
What is Massachusetts?
100
I am responsible for creating the plow that changed the middle of the United States into a booming agricultural economy
Who is John Deere?
200
This journey was undertaken to map the west and find a possible waterway to the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
200
a specific features on the surface of the earth, ranging from large-scale features such as plains, plateaus, and mountains to minor features such as hills, valleys, and alluvial fans.
What is landform?
200
The President of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
200
The capital of Texas.
What is Austin?
200
This device enabled cotton farmers in the south to increase profit margins because of the speed at which it could remove the seeds from picked cotton.
What is the cotton gin?
300
Regionalism, state's rights, and slavery caused this conflict in America.
What is the Civil War?
300
During this time factories and mass production first came on the scene most of which were in the Northern United States.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
300
This man is the creator of the cotton gin which made harvesting cotton much easier.
Who is Eli Whitney?
300
The state directly north of Texas.
What is Oklahoma?
300
This decree by Abraham Lincoln announced that slavery was no longer allowed, but the slaves still needed to be freed.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
400
The President who was killed 21 weeks after the end of the Civil War and was the leader throughout the war.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
400
Supply and demand are central tenets of this economic system.
What is the free market system.
400
Commander of the Union forces during the Civil War I was also the 18th President of the United States.
Who is Ulysses Grant?
400
Portland is the capital of this state.
What is Oregon?
400
I was an American Inventor and created the first working steam ship.
Who is Robert Fulton?
500
The term for someone who fights for the immediate freedom of slaves and end of slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
500
This land was bought from France at a steal of a deal, and doubled the size of our young nation.
What is Louisiana Purchase?
500
The leader of the Confederate Armies who surrendered at the Appomattox Court House which led to the end of the Civil War.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
500
The capital of the largest state in the Union.
What is Juneau?
500
The idea the American ideals are "God given" and it was the rightful place of America to take over the entire country from sea to shining sea.