Although there wasn't really a battle here, it was the site where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.
What is Fort Sumter?
100
This belief, which stated that the United States should stretch from ocean to ocean, was part of the reason we looked to get involved with Mexican territory.
What is manifest destiny?
100
He was the President of the United States during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
The movement that urged people to give up or limit their alcohol use.
What is the temperance movement?
100
He introduced the first steamboat, Clermont.
Who is Robert Fulton?
200
This battle was (and still is) the bloodiest single-day battle in American history.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
200
The United States received land from Mexico that is today California, Nevada, and Utah, and parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming. This land is better known as this.
What is the Mexican Cession?
200
He led the Confederate forces throughout the entire war.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
200
The total end to slavery.
What is abolition?
200
The first "email" system, the telegraph was this man's invention.
Who is Samuel Morse?
300
It was the first battle of the Civil War.
What is the First Battle of Bull Run?
300
Land just to the north of this river was claimed to belong to both the United States and Mexico, which helped push them into war.
What is the Rio Grande?
300
Eventually he was elevated to the position of commander of all Union armies; he would later be our President.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
300
Americans who opposed immigration.
What are nativists?
300
This invention that separated cotton from the seeds led to an increased demand of slaves in the south.
What is the cotton gin?
400
Following this battle, President Lincoln honored the dead with his famous speech that starts "Four score and seven years ago..."
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
400
This treaty ended our war with Mexico in early 1848.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
400
He was the Confederacy's President during the Civil War.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
400
Freedom from slavery.
What is emancipation?
400
When he introduced the idea of interchangeable parts, America's output greatly increased.
Who is Eli Whitney?
500
William Tecumseh Sherman could not be stopped by any southern army units as he marched from Tennessee to Atlanta and then into the Carolinas during this march of destruction.
What is Sherman's March to the Sea?
500
The United States gained California during the war with Mexico during this revolt by citizens of California.
What is the Bear Flag Revolt?
500
Although his fame didn't come until less than a week after the Civil War ended, his assassination of Lincoln drastically changed the face of post-Civil War America.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
500
To take control of.
What is annex?
500
He provided the blueprints for America's first textile mill.