Westward Expansion
This treaty decided on the 49th parallel as the border between British Columbia and the US.
For bonus points, the 1859 war fought over the ambiguity of this very border agreement which started after the shooting of a pig
What is the Oregon Treaty? (What is the Pig War)
OCTUPLE POINTS IF BONUS
This controversial act went directly against the ruling made in the Missouri Compromise.
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
SINGLE JEOPARDY :D
Ulysses S. Grant assumed this political position shortly after the war.
What is President of the United States (after Andrew Johnson).
The first president to be impeached by a house of congress.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Modern day confederate flag flyers often defend their flag by claiming it doesn’t represent slavery, rather their
What is “southern history/heritage”.
This famous railroad was a massive part of westward expansion. Hint- it is not featured in monopoly.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
This slave rebellion leader, who led anti-slavery movements during bleeding Kansas, killed 5 people at Pottawatomie creek, and led a raid on a federal armory, was the first person to be executed in the United States for treason
Who is John Brown?
This beloved confederate general stated that he was not fighting for slavery, but for Virginia, and decided which side he would fight for when Virginia picked a side.
Who is Robert E. Lee
This US constitutional amendment abolished slavery except as punishment for a crime.
What is the 13th amendment?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
The youngest soldier to fight in the civil war was just 8 years old. He fought on the side of the..
Union!! Duh!!
This territory was originally claimed by Spain, as well as Russia, Great Britain and Uncle Sam
What is the Oregon territory?
This supreme court decision ruled that enslaved people, not being citizens, did not have rights that had to be respected and were not allowed to sue in federal court.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
The number of stars on the confederate flag.
What is 13 stars
This 1875 law aimed to guarantee equal treatment for Black people in public places, but was ineffective due to lack of enforcement and was eventually ruled unconstitutional by the supreme court was called....
What is the civil rights act of 1875
The cost of Texas, NM, Arizona, and California territories from the Treaty of Guadalupe, adjusted for inflation, would be about 600 million dollars today. The purchasing power of the money spent in the Gadsden purchase in 2025 is-
Answer what is about 400 million dollars
This act provided acres of land for a minimal fee, motivating many people to move west.
What is the homestead act?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
The approximate number of digits of the integer representing the number of slaves pre civil war in the United States.
What is 7 digits, 3,950,000
The primary name used to refer to runaway slaves during the Civil War.
What is contraband
The KKK denounced Jewish people, black people, immigrants and this sect of Christianity.
What is Catholicism
Give us an LEQ thesis for the following prompt: "Assess the influence of the abolitionist movement on the sectional conflict between the North and South in the period 1830–1860."
Ms Boylan says......
James K Polk was known as the second coming of Andrew Jackson. Due to this, he was given the nickname ….
What is Young Hickory, Andrew Jackson was known as Old Hickory.
The Compromise of 1850 attempted to address the issue of slavery in newly acquired territories. 3 of them were the….
CA admitted as free state, popular sovereignty in Utah and New Mexico, Texas and New Mexico boundary, slave trade is abolished in D.C.,Fugitive slave act.
This 1862 act allowed Union military commanders to seize confederate property during the war.
What is the Confiscation Act.
This unofficial compromise between southern Democrats and Republicans following the controversial 1876 election is known as… two of the major outcomes were…
The compromise of 1877, the Republican nominee Rutherford B. Hayes became president, federal troops were removed from the south, the era of Reconstruction ended
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
The real reason that Abe Lincoln wore his top hat according to Big Nate
What is the massive wart on his head.