This is the policy of making one ethnic group conform to the standard of another.
What is assimilation?
100
Lincoln's victory in the 1860 presidential election caused many southern states to _________.
What is to secede?
100
The first shots of the Civil War were fired at the fort off the coast of Charleston, SC.
What is Fort Sumter?
200
This treaty ended the Mexican War.
What is the Treat of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
200
This ex-slave from the Caribbean was executed after a failed slave revolt in Charleston, SC.
Who is Denmark Vesey?
200
This famous abolitionist wrote and autobiography and published The North Star.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
200
He was the president of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
300
These two men tried to find the fabled Northwest Passage in their famous expedition.
Who are Meriwether Lewis and William Clark?
300
This tribe was the main victim of the Trail of Tears.
Who are the Cherokee?
300
John Brown, who led the failed 1859 raid at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, also murdered pro-slavery settlers in this western territory.
What is Kansas (or Kansas-Nebraska Territory or "Bleeding Kansas)?
300
The Union victory in the Battle of Vicksburg (1863) was an important part of this 3-part Union war strategy known as the____________.
What is The Anaconda Plan?
400
This famous "purchase" (name) in _____(date) nearly doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase? What is 1803?
400
What is one name (first and last) of a current U.S. Supreme Court Justice?
Who is...
John Roberts?
Clarence Thomas?
Samuel Alito?
Antonin Scalia?
Anthony Kennedy?
Stephen Breyer?
Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
Sonia Sotomayor?
Elena Kagan?
400
Riots erupted in New York in 1863 over this law.
What is The Union Draft Law?
400
The northernmost geographic point the Confederate Army reached during the Civil War.
What is Gettysburg, PA?
500
Who is one current senator from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts?
Who is Elizabeth Warren? Who is Edward Markey?
500
This president helped pass the 1830 Indian Removal Act.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
500
These four states, known as Border States, allowed slavery but never seceded from the Union. They are (name the four states):
What are Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, and Missouri?
500
This Union General was known for his "slash and burn" tactics.