This president led the Continental Army to eventual victory in the American Revolution.
Who is George Washington?
100
This denomination of money has Andrew Jackson's picture on it.
What is the $20 bill?
100
This man forced the Cherokee nation to move from Georgia to Oklahoma in the middle of winter, causing many deaths, an incident called the "Trail of Tears."
Who is Andrew Jackson?
100
This man's invention of the cotton gin revolutionized agriculture in the South and made slaves indispensable to its cultivation.
Who is Eli Whitney?
100
The southern states called themselves this when they separated from the Union in 1861.
What is the Confederacy or the Confederate States of America (CSA)?
200
This President bought Louisiana from France for $15 million.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
This is one of two men who served as Jackson's vice president.
Who are John C. Calhoun or Martin Van Buren?
200
This man incited "Bleeding Kansas" and led a raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia that resulted in he and his followers being hung.
Who is John Brown?
200
This is a famous abolitionist.
Who are either Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, or Harriet Tubman?
200
The first shots of the Civil War were fired at this Union military installation in South Carolina.
What is Fort Sumter?
300
This President is known as the "Father of the Constitution" and started the War of 1812.
Who is James Madison?
300
Jackson successfully killed this financial institution by vetoing a renewal of its charter and withdrawing all U. S. funds from it.
What is the Bank of the United States?
300
This man shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel.
Who is Aaron Burr?
300
This man helped hold off conflict over slavery by proposing the Compromise of 1850 that let California become a free state, banning slave trading in the District of Columbia, and enacting a tougher fugitive slave law.
Who is Henry Clay?
300
The North had a big advantage over the South in the Civil War in terms of this.
What is more than twice as many people, more railroads, and more factories to make war materiel?
400
This President told Lucretia Mott that sending freed slaves back to Africa was the only way slavery could end.
Who is John Tyler?
400
Jackson said NO to South Carolina's attempt at nullification when they refused to pay this.
What is a tariff?
400
These three French diplomats asked for bribes and loans before they would talk to American negotiators about 300 U. S. ships that had been seized by France.
Who are X, Y, and Z?
400
Stephen Douglas ran against this man for President in 1860 and lost.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
400
The first big battle of the Civil War took place here.
What is Bull Run or Manassas, Virginia?
500
This President whose nickname was Tippecanoe, served for only one month after falling ill after his inaugural address.
Who is William Henry Harrison?
500
Andrew Jackson once stopped an attempted assassination by hitting the gunman with his cane. This incident happened here.
What is on the steps of the U. S. Capitol building?
500
Roger B. Taney ruled that this man was the property of his owner and therefore had no right to sue in court asking for his freedom.
Who is Dred Scott?
500
This Southerner beat Senator Charles Sumner almost to death on the floor of the U. S. Senate after Sumner made a speech against slavery.
Who is Preston Brooks?
500
This decisive battle was fought in Pennsylvania was a narrow victory for the North but ended any hope of the Confederacy to fight the war in northern territory.