U.S. Geography
Power & Money
People/Documents
Transportation/Tech
Potpourri
100
Number of seasons in New England.
What are 4?
100
Southern economy was based on
What is agriculture (farming)?
100
The Constitution was written to replace this document.
What are The Articles of Confederation?
100
Most popular way to travel in the south?
What is river travel?
100
Site of the first shots of the American Rovelution.
What is Lexington?
200
This map symbol is used for determining direction.
What is a compass (rose)?
200
This group WON in court but LOST in Georgia.
Who are the Cherokee?
200
Father of public education in the U.S.
Who is Horace Mann?
200
Fast ships used for trade.
What are Clipper ships?
200
Suffragist were fighting for this right.
What is the right to vote?
300
Human change to the Northern landscape in the 1800's.
What is deforestation or minning?
300
A tax on imported goods.
What is a tariff?
300
The election of this president in 1860 caused South Carolina to succeed.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
300
How many miles of rail linked the Northern factories to cities?
What is 20,000 miles of rail?
300
Lacking sewage and paved roads, these places were dirty and crowded with disease.
What are Northern cities?
400
Rice, indigo, tobacco are this type of crop.
What are cash crops?
400
Southerners measured wealth by these two possessions.
What are land and slaves?
400
This document ended the American Revolution.
What is the Treaty of Paris of 1783?
400
Inventor of the Cotton Gin
Who is Eli Whitney?
400
In the mid 1800s, most immigrants were from these two countries.
What were Germany and Ireland?
500
A town in Massachusetts is named after this industrialist.
Who is Francis Cabot Lowell?
500
Andrew Jackson threated to hang this man during the Nullification crisis.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
500
Number of amendments to the Constitution.
What is 27?
500
Inventor of the steam engine.
Who is Robert Fulton?
500
The Kansas-Nebraska Act let to this bloody event.
What is Bleeding Kansas?