The Early US
Problems for the US Early
Important People
Slavery and the Civil War
Reconstruction
100
A group of close advisors to the president.
What is the Cabinet?
100
Washington warned about this in his farewell address.
What is political parties?
100
Inventor of the steel plow.
Who is John Deere?
100
Most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
100
The name for a southerner who supported Reconstruction.
What is a scalawag?
200
The country's first Secretary of State.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
War between the US and England where Washington DC is burned to the ground.
What is the War of 1812?
200
Founder of the Mormon religion.
Who is Joseph Smith?
200
The first battle of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
200
He gets a wide majority of the black vote to win the elections of 1868 and 1872.
Who is Ulysses S Grant?
300
Greatest supporter of a National Bank.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
300
President who destroys the national bank.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
300
He buys the Louisiana Purchase.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
300
He kills people in Kansas and later seizes a federal arsenal to try to free the slaves.
Who is John Brown?
300
He becomes president when Lincoln is killed and is soft on the South.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
400
Happened when farmers in rural Pennsylvania attacked tax collectors.
What is the Whisley Rebellion?
400
This state becomes a free state in the Missouri Compromise.
What is Maine?
400
The only president to resign.
Who is Richard Nixon?
400
A turning point in the Civil War.
What is Gettysburg (or Vicksburg)?
400
This abolished slavery in the US.
What is the 13th amendment?
500
Treaty with Great Britain that left many Americans angry.
What is the Jay Treaty?
500
Group of religious dissenters who are persecuted and later move to Utah.
What is the Mormons (Church of Latter-Day Saints)?
500
Started a slave revolt near Richmond, Virginia that killed 60 people.
Who is Nat Turner?
500
The name of the Union strategy in the Civil War.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
500
This ended Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
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