Many of our first presidents fought in this war for independence against Great Britain.
What was the Revolutionary War?
100
The third president of the United States.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
100
What the northerners called soldiers from the south--opposite of Yankees.
What are rebels?
100
First president to occupy the White House.
Who was John Adams?
100
This policy, begun by President Andrew Johnson, attempted to help rebuild the south after the war.
What was Reconstruction?
200
War associated most with presidents Andrew Johnson, Ulysses Grant, and Abraham Lincoln.
What is the Civil War?
200
The 16th president of the United States.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
What CSA stands for.
What are the Confederate States of America?
200
The president who signed the Missouri Compromise and captured Florida from Spain.
Who was James Monroe?
200
This Constitutional Amendment abolished slavery in the whole United States--though it did not give blacks full rights of citizenship or the right to vote.
What is the 13th Amendment?
300
Fought against Britain, this was also known as Madison's war after President James Madison.
What was the War of 1812?
300
The 12th president of the United States.
Who is Zachary Taylor?
300
The president of the CSA.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
300
President famous for his Gettysburg Address.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
300
Place where John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.
What is Ford's Theater?
400
Also known as Polk's War after president James Polk.
What was the Mexican American War?
400
The 15th president of the United States.
Who is James Buchanan?
400
Collective word for the slave states that did not join the CSA (Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, and Kentucky).
What are the Border States?
400
President who established Yellowstone National Park.
Who was Ulysses S Grant?
400
Groups of white vigilantes (dressed in white robes and hoods to look like ghosts) who terrorized radical Republicans and blacks in the south.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
500
Collective name for wars fought in the territories, wars that were aggravated by President Andrew Jackson's support of the Indian Removal Act.
What were the Indian Wars?
500
The 14th president of the United States.
Who is Franklin Pierce?
500
What the south called (and still calls today) the Civil War.
What is the War of Northern Aggression?
500
President who purchased Alaska from Russia.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
500
Northern radical Republicans who moved to the south to fill government vacancies that ex-Confederates were no longer allowed to occupy.