The main reason why tens of thousands of pioneers traveled to California from 1848-1855
What is the Gold Rush
100
A set of laws passed to find a compromise between pro-slavery and anti-slavery states
What is the Compromise of 1850
100
A bill that proposed for the Reconstruction of the South
What is the Wade-Davis Bill
100
President who used anti-catholic and anti-immigrant standpoints to secure his victory in 1853
Who is Franklin Pierce
100
The year that the Civil War began
What is 1861
200
The battle in 1836 won by the Mexicans during the Texas Revolution
What is the Battle of the Alamo
200
The solution to the inconsistency between popular sovereignty and the Dred Scott desicion
What is the Freeport Doctrine
200
Codes Designed to restrict freed blacks activity and ensure their availability as a labor force
What is the Black Codes
200
President that removed federal troops from the south in order to compromise for the election
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes
200
Slavery is abolished after the Thirteenth Amendment is added to the Constitution
What is 1865
300
The battle where Sam Houston surprised the Mexican forces with an attack and captured Santa Anna
What is the Battle of San Jacinto
300
The compromise that guaranteed permanent existence of slavery in the southern slave states by reestablishing the free-slave demarcation
What is the Crittenden Compromise
300
A US federal law that was designed to restrict presidential power to remove certain office holders without the Senate's approval
What is the Tenure of Office Act
300
During his presidency, seven Southern states seceded from the Union and the nation slowly drifted toward the Civil War
Who is James Buchanan
300
The day that the Mexican-American War begins
What is April 25th, 1846
400
The boundary dispute between Great Britain, Ireland, and the United States that lasted through the first half the 19th century
What is the Oregon Boundary Dispute
400
The first shots of the Civil War were fired at this fort on April 12th 1861
What is Fort Sumter
400
Southern Whites who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party after the Civil War
What is a Scalawag
400
President during the Civil War who brought the Union back together and was later assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
Who is Abraham Lincoln
400
The day that the Compromise of 1850 passes
What is June 12th, 1850
500
Land the United States paid Mexico $10 million for to fulfill its dream of Manifest Destiny
What is the Gadsden Purchase
500
The plan by the Union that surrounded the seceding states to economically strangle them so the Confederacy could be defeated at the start of the Civil War
What is the Anaconda Plan
500
An act that guaranteed African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and prohibited exclusion from Jury
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1876
500
President who signed the Reconstruction Act of 1876
Who is Ulysses S. Grant
500
The year that the Lincoln-Douglas debates took place