People
Who was the first US president?
George Washington
Most important US river that flows through Louisiana.
Mississippi river
A war between Northern and Southern states.
Civil War
This document freed slaves in all rebellious states.
Emancipation proclamation
This is the act of trying to remove a president for criminal charges.
Impeachment
This president wanted to free slaves and led the US through the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
Capital of the US.
Washington DC
This battle was fought a month after the war of 1812 ended near the mouth of the Mississippi river.
Battle of New Orleans
This law required northerners to capture and arrest runaway slaves and return them back to the southern states.
Fugitive slave law
Who did we buy Louisiana From?
France
This president bought the Louisiana territory.
Thomas Jefferson
What US state was the Alamo located in?
Texas
This movement was led by prominent black leaders in order to free slaves and earn black rights.
Abolition
This document allowed new states to choose whether or not they wanted to allow slavery in their areas, also abolished slave trade in DC.
Compromise of 1850
This person established the first national bank of the US.
Alexander Hamilton
This president was the first president to have an impeachment trial.
Andrew Johnson
This state is where Native American tribes were forced to move to by the US government.
Oklahoma
This treaty gave the US a lot of land in the western US after the Mexican-American war.
Mexican Cession
This document said that Missouri would come in as a slave state and Maine would join as a free state.
Missouri Compromise
This was the name given to the group of people who wanted to further women's rights and allow them to vote.
Suffragist
This president signed the Indian removal act.
Andrew Jackson
This state voted to break away from another at the start of the Civil War over the issue of slavery.
West Virginia
Nickname given to a US state in the 1850s after a bloody political conflict.
Bleeding Kansas
This doctrine said that the US would not allow foreign influence in the Americas and we would fight any European power over it
Monroe doctrine
This woman escaped slavery and later became a conductor on the underground railroad to aid slaves.
Harriet Tubman