The act of withdrawing from a union to form a separate state.
What is secession?
100
A very delicious blend of ingredients that usually includes nuts, sweets, and berries.
What is Trail Mix?
100
A nonviolent protest that was led by the Sons of Liberty, which resulted in the dumping of hundreds of pounds of tea into the Atlantic ocean.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
100
The philosopher whose ideas were used in the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Locke?
100
The trail used to drive cattle from Texas to the railroads in Kansas.
What is the Chisholm Trail?
200
A network of secret routes and safe houses used by slaves to escape to the the north.
What is the Underground Railroad?
200
The trail in which the Native Americans were forced to travel to move to Oklahoma.
What is the Trail of Tears?
200
A result of people throwing snowballs at the British military, which led to the deaths of 5 civilians.
What is the Boston Massacre?
200
The style of government laid out by the US Constitution to prevent any branch of government from becoming too powerful.
What are checks and balances?
200
A group of laws that provided Americans with several acres of land in the Midwest, with a contract that forced them to stay on the land for 10 years.
What is the Homestead Act?
300
The bloodiest battle in the Civil War
What is Antietam?
300
The route that was a 2000 mile journey beginning in Missouri, and ending in Oregon
What is the Oregon Trail?
300
The group of people who supported the British during the American Revolution
Who are the Loyalists?
300
A political system where two major political parties dominate politics within a government.
What is a two-party system?
300
The act that authorized the President of the United States to take the land of the Native Americans and divide it into smaller sections for individual Natives.
What is the Dawes Act?
400
A trail that begin in Franklin, Missouri, and ended in New Mexico; It was created as a result of the Mexican American War.
What is the Santa Fe Trail?
400
The documents that originally governed the United States immediately after the American Revolution
What are the Articles of Confederation?
400
The document that prevented Europeans from continuing to colonize the Americas.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
400
The idea that American settlers were destined to expand across the continent, and to populate the country from coast to coast.
What is manifest destiny?
500
A highly successful Union general in the civil war that was later elected as president.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
500
The trail that followed the Oregon Trail, then split southward to California.
What is the California Trail?
500
The style of government that the Articles of Confederation enforced.
What is a republic?
500
The principle that government gains its power from the people.
What is popular sovereignty?
500
The name given to African Americans who migrated to the Midwest to claim land as a result of the Homestead Act.