What is another name for the Trans-Atlantic slave trade?
Middle Passage
100
What was the last battle of the Revolutionary War?
Yorktown
100
What was the first constitution of the United States?
Articles of Confederation
100
Who was the commander of the Confederate Army?
Robert E. Lee
100
What shipped was blown up to trigger the start of the Spanish American War?
USS Maine
200
What was the name of the religious resurgence that was characterized by fire and brimstone speeches?
The Great Awakening
200
These groups of people acted as an information pipeline for the colonists before the war.
Committees of Correspondence
200
What compromise was made in the Constitution with regard to representation based on the slave population?
3/5 Compromise
200
John D. Rockefeller had a monopoly in which industry?
Oil
200
What were the series of laws passed to disenfranchise minorities during segregation known as?
Jim Crow Laws
300
This is an economic system defined by the mother country benefitting from its colonies. Also, this idea said that exports were more important than importants.
Mercantilism
300
What French soldier helped train American troops during the Revolutionary War?
Marquis de LaFayette
300
Who was a huge figure in creating public schools in the US?
Horace Mann
300
What was the first battle of the Civil War?
Fort Sumter
300
Who was the leader of the American Federation of Labor?
Samuel Gompers
400
Part of this trade between Europe, Africa, and the colonies included sending Slaves to Africa to trade for sugar, molasses, and other materials.
Triangular Trade
400
The Intolerable Acts were put into place after this action by the colonists.
Boston Tea Party
400
This meeting was the beginning of the women's rights movement in the US
Seneca Falls Convention
400
This US battle against the Sioux led to the death of General Custer. (hint: this led to a massacre of Sioux weeks later)
Battle of Little Big Horn
400
What statement made by a US president stated that no European intervention in the Western Hemispher would be tolerated? (hint: It was an extension of the Monroe Doctrine)
Roosevelt Corollary
500
What territory did the Quakers found? (hint: It is now a state)
Pennsylvania
500
What treaty ended the Revolutionary War? (I need the year too)
Treaty of Paris 1783
500
Which man from South Carolina was for nullification of the tariff of 1828? (hint: think nullification crisis that almost started the Civil War thirty years earlier)
John C. Calhoun
500
This railroad strike led to US troops coming in to break it up because it stopped the flow of US mail.
Pullman Strike of 1894
500
Who was the founder of Hull House, organizations designed to help in low income areas of Chicago