He invented interchangeable parts and the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
100
This is the love and devotion to one's part/region of the country rather than the nation.
What is Sectionalism?
100
Demanding the Union forces surrender this strategic military location, the first shots of the Civil War were fired here.
What is Ft. Sumter?
100
This first of the Civil Rights Amendments, this freed the slaves in every US state and territory.
What is 13th Amendment?
200
The 800 mile path from Georiga to Oklahoma on which thousands of Cherokee Indians were forced to move.
What is the Trail of Tears?
200
This was the movement to end slavery.
What is Abolitionism?
200
He led a violent slave rebellion which led to an increase in lynchings in the South as well as the Black Codes.
Who is Nat Turner?
200
Sherman's goal was to destroy the ____________ in Atlanta to prevent the Confederates' trasportation of people or supplies.
What is Railroads?
200
This is the Supreme Court case which declared that "seperate but equal" was constitutional.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
300
Napoleon Bonaparte sold us this for only $15 million; known as the greatest land deal in history, it doubled the size of the US!
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
300
Held in NYC, this was the first women's right's convention in the US; key leaders were Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Susan B. Anthony.
What is the Seneca Falls Conference?
300
This agreement ended the Missouri Compromise when it admitted California as a free state, allowed popular soverienty in western territories, and enacted the Fugitive Slave Act.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
300
This was the turning point for the Union after which Lincoln gave a famous Address and created a cemetery to honor the fallen soldiers.
What is Gettysburg?
300
This President was impeached, but NOT removed from office, because he refused to enforce the Reconstruction Act.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
400
This peace agreement ended the Mexican-American War and gave the US the California and New Mexico territories.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
400
The editor of a newspaper called The Liberator, this white abolitionist also founded the American Anti-Slavery Society.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
400
This Act allowed popularity sovereignty in these two states--meaning they got to vote about the issue of slavery.
What is Kansas and Nebraska?
400
Signed by Abraham Lincoln after the Battle for Antietam, this freed the slaves living in the Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
400
This is the derogatory name that Southerners called Northerners who came to the South to enforce Reconstruction.
What is Carpetbaggers?
500
Proposed by Henry Clay, it included a plan to strengthen the national bank, strengthen the nation's infrastructure, and create a protective tariff.
What is the American System?
500
Not the first, but lasting longer than it, this spiritual revivial emphasized living a good life in order to earn salvation.
What is the 2nd Great Awakening?
500
Declaring it a "state of emergency", Lincoln suspended this right which meant he could imprison Confederate leaders without due process.
What is Habeas Corpus?
500
The purpose of this plan was to cut off the Mississippi River, destroy the Southern railroads, blockade the coast, and capture their capital at Richmond to "squeeze the life out of them".
What is the Anaconda Plan?
500
This was the first Confederate state to be readmitted to the Union because they agreed to the 14th Amendment; ironically, it is also where the KKK was formed.