Slavery
The name given to religious songs written by slaves that often contained coded language.
What are spirituals?
"The Father of the Underground Railroad"
Who is William Still?
This group of immigrants arrived expecting to work hard in the mining fields, but instead were forced into opening shops and services in downtown San Francisco.
Who are the Chinese?
The name of the Spaniards living the the Tejas territory before Americans began to move in.
What are Tejanos?
James K. Polk moved troops into the territory along this river to try to provoke a war.
What is the Rio Grande?
This invention of Eli Whitney was a big contributor to the slave boom of the early 1800's.
What is the Cotton Gin?
What is conductor?
The year that the rush to California began.
What is 1849?
The name of the final battle of the Revolution in which Santa Anna was captured.
What is the Battle of San Jacinto?
The name of the rebellion led by John C. Fremont that gave California temporary independence.
What is the Bear Flag Revolt?
Part of the compromise of 1850 that instituted stricter laws against runaway slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
The nickname given to Levi and Catharine Coffin's home because of the amount of escaping slaves who came through.
What is "Grand Central Station"?
Gold was first found near San Francisco in the American River by this man, hired to build Sutter's Mill.
Who is James Marshall?
Texans at the Battle of Gonzales hung a flag that said this when Mexican forces came to take their canons.
What is "Come and Take It"?
The name of the purchase made after the war for a railroad that completed the map of the U.S.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
The proportion of the South's population that was enslaved people by 1840.
What is 1/3?
Harriet Tubman's birth name.
What is Araminta Ross?
This woman, a former slave, is credited with making the most money from the Gold Rush. Not from gold though, but from her hotel chain.
Who is Nancy Gooch?
The names of all 4 of the most famous men who fought at the Battle of the Alamo.
Who are Jim Bowie, William Travis, Davy Crocket, and Juan Seguin?
The taking of Mexico City by American forces helped to inspire this line in the Marine Corps hymn.
What is "from the halls of Montezuma"?
The line of latitude that the Missouri Compromise banned slavery North of and allowed it South of.
What is the 36th parallel?
Harriet Tubman was hit in the head with a weight at a young age, likely causing her to struggle with this disorder her entire life.
What is narcolepsy?
The environmental effects of overmining during the Gold Rush can still be felt. For example, fish in San Francisco bay tend to be very high in this element, toxic to humans.
What is mercury?
Nickname of the first American families that Stephen F. Austin moved into the Texas territory.
What are the Old 300?
The Mexican-American War launched the military career of this most famous of Confederate Generals.
Who is Robert E. Lee?