He was the federalist architect (and later a Democratic-Republican president) of the Constitution
Who is James Madison?
100
The process by which the British (and French) navies forced American citizens to serve in their fleets during the French Revolutionary Wars.
What is impressment?
100
General Winfield Scott's grand strategy to win the Civil War that focused on suffocating the Southern economy.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
100
Congress strengthened this Constitutional provision that angered the North in exchange for California's admittance as a free state.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
100
This internal improvement linked the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean and fueled the growth of New York City and New York State in the early 19th Century.
What is the Erie Canal?
200
This 1787 land ordinance demarcated present-day Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio and Indiana under the Articles of Confederation.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
200
This was the final major battle of the War of 1812 that occurred after the combatants signed the Treaty of Ghent!
What is the Battle of New Orleans?
200
This battle caused 23,000 Confederate casulties and represented a major turning point in the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
200
Things got messy in this state's efforts to join the Union in the mid to late 1850s.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
200
This Vice-President defied his boss and suggested that states had the right to veto any federal law.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
300
This proposal during the Constitutional Convention suggested a unicameral legislature with representation equal among all states.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
300
This state's controversial admittance led to the first major sectional crisis in the antebellum United States.
What is Missouri?
300
The name of the African-American regiment that led a suicidal assault on Fort Wagner in 1863.
What is the 54th Massachusetts?
300
He argued that slaves enjoyed better lives than Northern wage workers.
Who is George Fitzhugh?
300
The name of the foreign policy formulated by John Quincy Adams that told Europe to get lost.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
400
This ex-Revolutionary War soldier led a revolt against his creditors in 1786.
Who is Daniel Shays?
400
This landmark Supreme Court case established judicial review and the Court's supremacy in interpreting the Constitution.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
400
Robert E. Lee's crowning glory that also marked the start of his downfall.
What is the Battle of Chancellorsville?
400
This Missouri man's failed effort to sue for his freedom in 1857 suggested that the federal government could not prohibit the expansion of slavery and served as one of the immediate catalysts for the Civil War.
Who is Dred Scott?
400
This woman used her wit and guile to become the James Bond of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Who is Belle Boyd?
500
This publication promoted the new Constitution to the rest of the United States during the ratification process?
What is The Federalist?
500
This scandalous deal, along with the Panic of 1819, contributed to the demise of the "Era of Good Feelings"
What is the "Corrupt Bargain?"
500
This Union general became famous for his ability to confiscate Rebel property.
Who is General Benjamin Butler?
500
This legislative initiative represented the first Congressional effort to ban slavery in the United States territory after the Mexican-American War.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
500
This ex-slave wrote a best-selling autobiography, became one of the most famous abolitionists in antebellum America, and an early supporter of the feminist movement in the 1840s.