This large purchase of land by President Thomas Jefferson doubled the size of the United States of America. (Lewis and Clark were sent to explore this new Territory and look for the Northwest Passage)
What is The Louisiana Purchase?
100
The name for an imaginary "circle" of countries that The Southern Confederacy hoped to conquer.
What is the Golden Circle?
100
The name of the Northern Army and the Southern Army during the Civil War.
What is the Union and the Confederate Armies?
100
Who said:"That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord 1863, all persons held as slaves within any State..... shall be forever free."
Who is: President Abraham Lincoln
100
This TERM was used for a famous trade route used to transport slaves across the Atlantic Ocean.
What is The Triangle Trade Route or The Middle Passage
200
The war fought between the United States and THIS COUNTRY added the New Mexico Territory, the California Territory, and Texas north of the Rio Grande River to the US.
What is the Mexico?
200
Meaning "free-booters or pirates" in Spanish
What is Filibuster?
200
The President of the United States of America during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
Who said: "I want Cuba and sooner or later we shall have it!"
Who is President Jefferson Davis, Southern Confederacy.
200
This cargo was picked up from the coast of Africa for transport to North America.
What are African Slaves?
300
This Act regulated slavery in the Western Territories and prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana Territory.
What is The Missouri Compromise of 1820?
300
Name three crops and/or natural resources found within the Golden Circle of countries.
What are:
cotton, tobacco, sugar, coffee, rice, corn, tea, and
minerals?
300
This happened between many Congressmen on the House Floor at 2:00 a.m. in 1854.
What is a brawl?
300
These words, "Hit Him Again!" and "Use Knock-down Arguments!" appeared in THESE shortly after the caning of Sumner.
What are Southern Newspapers?
300
Many Africans died on the ships due to these two main reasons.
What are disease and starvation.
400
This Act nullified the Missouri Compromise of 1820 in this new territory (nicknamed Bleeding Kansas) and allowed these people to vote if they would be a Free State or a Slave State.
What is The Kansas Nebraska Act?
400
Two countries filibustered by The South in order to add new slaves states to the Confederacy.
What are:
Cuba and Nicaragua
(Honduras is also acceptable)
400
The God-given right to expand the country from sea to shining sea!
What is MANIFEST DESTINY?
400
"My soul is wrung by this outrage & I shall pour it forth...of the murderous robbers from Missouri, hirelings picked from the drunken spew and vomit of an uneasy civilization..."
Who is Senator Sumner?
400
These goods were shipped from Europe to North America via the African Slave Trade (Hint: not slaves)
What are Guns and Manufactured Goods?
500
The number of degrees of the parallel line that excluded slavery north of this imaginary line?
Hint: ___________ degrees ____________' North.
What is the 36 degrees 30' North?
500
The reason why The South wanted to conquer Mexico, Central America and The West Indies (Caribbean Islands).
What is to add more Slave States to The South?
500
This person led the Filibuster of Nicaragua and declared himself head of the army and President of Nicaragua. He also legalized slavery again in Nicaragua. (P.S. executed by a firing squad in Honduras)
Who is William Walker?
500
This person said, "Your speech is a libel on South Carolina!" before he began caning a fellow senator.
Who is Senator Brooks?
500
These goods were shipped to Europe from North America via the Triangle of Trade.