States & Territories
States that were formerly under the control of Spain
What are California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas?
What is Manifest Destiny?
Jefferson sent these 2 men out to explore the land west of the Mississippi
Who are Lewis and Clark?
The Antebellum Period
What was the time between the War of 1812 and the Civil War (also accept era prior to the Civil War)?
The official immigration center in New York in 1892?
What is Ellis Island?
A method of encoding text characters using sequences of short and long signals, known as dots and dashes, developed in the 1830s by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail.
What is Morse Code?
The political party that resisted Blacks voting after the Civil War and enacted Black Codes
What is the Democrat Party
Jefferson bought this land from France
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The first to do something.
For example, western settlers who were the first to settle the new land in the West.
What are pioneers?
The "conductor" of the Underground Railroad
Who was Harriet Tubman?
The Indian Removal Act resulted in this sad journey
What is the Trail of Tears?
This man-made waterway was built in 1825 to facilitate increased trade from the Midwest (Great Lakes) region to trade centers on the East Coast, such as New York City.
Hint: Named after one of the Great Lakes.
What is the Eerie Canal?
A U.S. federal law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years and denied Chinese residents the right to become citizens.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
A religious group that traveled to Utah in pursuit of religious freedom, after their founder, Joseph Smith, had been murdered for his beliefs.
Who are the Mormons?
War with this country resulted in California and the southwest territory becoming part of the U.S.
What is Mexico?
The name of the Union plan for victory during the Civil War
What was the Anaconda Plan?
Thomas Jefferson's Best Friend
Who was James Madison?
First battle of the Texas Revolution. Santa Anna's army put this fort under siege, and after 13 days, attacked the Americans inside. Almost all of the Americans died. The reminder became a cry of "Remember the ..."
What is the Alamo?
America's breadbasket is located here.
Where is Iowa or the Great Plains (accept either answer)
What was 1814-1815 called?
What is the Era of Good Feelings?
Thomas Edison created these two inventions ...
What are the phonograph and the lightbulb?
This territory was an independent republic before it was part of the U.S.
What is the Lone Star State or Texas?
Passed in 1862. Settlers could gain 160 acres of land, and if they lived on it for 5 years, they could own the land without cost (encouraged people to move west)
What is the Homestead Act?
Saved the portrait of George Washington during the War of 1812
Who was Dolley Madison?
Decision made when Missouri wanted to enter the U.S. as a slave state. In order to keep the balance of free and slave states in the country, Congress agreed to:
-Make Missouri a slave state
-Make Maine a free state
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This town in Missouri was a popular "jumping-off" place for pioneers and settlers heading West.
What is Independence?
An executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, declaring that all enslaved people in the Confederate states were to be set free. It transformed the Civil War into a fight for freedom and allowed Black men to serve in the Union Army.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The movement to limit the availability and consumption of alcohol in the United States. This resulted in the Prohibition.
What is the Temperance Movement
This territory was divided with Britain and the U.S.
What is Oregon Territory?
The British practice of forcibly recruiting sailors from American ships (and "pressing" them into service) into the British Royal Navy often led to significant tensions between Britain and the United States. This practice was one of the key causes of the War of 1812, as many Americans viewed it as a violation of their rights and sovereignty.
What is impressment?
Invented the Cotton Gin
Who was Eli Whitney?
This terrible event began in Mr. and Mrs. Patrick O'Leary's barn ...
What was the Great Chicago Fire?
Andrew Carnegie believed that this place was the best thing to give to a community ...
What is a library?
Speech that began, “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
What is the Gettysburg Address?
George Washington Carver was most well-known for his work with this agricultural crop.
What are peanuts?
The 49th state, which was admitted in 1959 after the US purchased it from Russia (also previously referred to as Russian America)
What is Alaska?
The belief that the genetic quality of a human population can be improved through selective breeding, often associated with Social Darwinism, harmful practices, and discrimination.
What is Eugenics?
A Civil War general who later became the 18th President of the United States, serving from 1869 to 1877. He is best known for leading the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy during the American Civil War
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
The bloodiest battle of the Civil War, fought from July 1 to July 3, 1863, resulting in over 50,000 combined casualties. This battle marked a turning point in the war, leading to a Union victory and halting the Confederate army's advance into the North.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
Historians call the migration of African Americans to Kansas ... OR
The African Americans who migrated to Kansas were called the ...
What was the Great Exodus
or
What are Exodusters?
(Give points for either)
The name of the campaign to gain women's right to vote, own property, retain their earnings, and participate in labor organizations.
This man was known as "The March King" for his significant contributions to military march music, including famous pieces like "The Stars and Stripes Forever" and "Semper Fidelis." He composed over 130 marches during his career.
Who was John Phillips Sousa?
The Spanish-American War gave America control of ... (name at least two of these four countries)
Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.
This happened in 1849 in California
What is the California Gold Rush?
The Indian Removal Act was enacted by this president, who was also known as Old Hickory
Who was Andrew Jackson?
Mark Twain called the period of history in the late 1800s, when many entrepreneurs were becoming extremely wealthy, the ...
From this city, shippers could ship farm goods from Lake Michigan to New Orleans ...
What is Chicago?
An invention connecting the East to the West Coast, which decreased the time it took to cross the continent from several months to just SIX (6) days. This allowed for more settlement and increased population in the West?
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
In "Plessy v. Ferguson", the Supreme Court declared that the practice of "separate but equal" facilities for African American and white citizens was ...
(Legal, illegal, wrong, invalid?)
What is legal?