This policy stated that the USA would not allow the rest of the Americas to be colonized by European powers.
What was the Monroe Doctrine?
100
This man invented the Cotton Gin, a device that was intended to make slavery obsolete, but instead, made slavery more and more profitable.
Who was Eli Whitney?
100
This was the name of the religious movement that surged out of western NY in the late 1820's.
What was the Second Great Awakening?
100
The disagreements over states rights, increased sectionalism, a general failure to compromise and slavery led to this tragic event in US history.
What was the Civil War?
100
These two presidents wanted the South to reenter the USA as fast and as smoothly as possible.
Who were Lincoln and Johnson?
200
Mexico sold land to the USA in current day New Mexico/Arizona, which now forms the southern border between the USA and Mexico.
What was the Gadsden Purchase?
200
This city was named after the person that invented the first Power Loom for textile mills.
Who was Francis Cabot Lowell?
200
The idea that people and nature are connected, is a core belief of this belief system/ideology.
What is transcendentalism?
200
The president used his pledge to "defend the United States against foreign invasion" to argue against this southern policy.
What was secession?
200
This president was impeached for his handling of Reconstruction and staffing.
What is Johnson?
300
This was the forced march of several Native American Tribes from their homelands in the American SW to the American Midwest. Thousands died.
What was the Trail of Tears?
300
This man memorized the building plans to several mills in England, and when he immigrated to the US, he brought this knowledge with him. Thus, starting the American Industrial Revolution.
Who was Samuel Slater?
300
This person wrote the book Walden, and was a leading Transcendentalist.
Who was Henry David Thoreau?
300
Abe Lincoln was hinting at this event when he wrote "four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation..."
What was the signing of the Declaration of independence?
300
This group formed in the South as a direct reaction to the laws and policies passed Post-Civil War. Their purpose was to keep former slaves repressed through terror and violence.
What was the KKK?
400
This treaty allowed the USA to purchase all the lands east of the Mississippi that was controlled by the Spanish.
What was the Adams-Onis Treaty?
400
The rapid industrialization of many of the urban centers in the North gave jobs to this group of people.
Who were young women?
400
This person was known for advocating for school reform.
Who was Horace Mann?
400
The Emancipation Proclamation had this impact across the USA.
What is freedom for the slaves?
(Ok, we know this is not the answer, but for the quiz, pretend that your as uninformed and uneducated as the average american)
400
This amendment to the US Constitution grants equal voting rights to all African Americans.
What is the 15th amendment?
500
This conflict resulted in the USA gaining large amounts of land in the American SW.
What was the Mexican-American War?
500
These three factors allowed the industrial revolution to flourish in the USA.
> Interchangeable parts made the production of goods cheaper
> Factories created jobs for unemployed urban workers
> Huge demand for textiles
500
This man believed that people should not obey laws that they find unjust. They should not react with violence, but by simply refusing to obey.
Who was Henry David Thoreau?
500
The Jim Crow laws and the Black Codes in the South were designed to to this.
What is keep African-Americans in a state of perpetuation repression and quasi-slavery?
500
This Supreme Court case is also known as the "separate but equal" clause.