Mexican American War
Reform Movements
Westward expansion
Road to the civil war
Mystery Category
100

What was the issue that caused a rift between the Mexican Government and the Texan-American settlers.

Slavery

100

Education reforms

Teacher pay, Teacher training, taxes to pay for schools, textbooks, Longer school days, longer semesters, expanded curriculum. 


100

Why did the Oregon trail end

The Transcontinental railroad connected the east and west of the nation. No more need to travel by foot.

100

Person who tried to start a slave revolt

John Brown


100

Name for Susan B Anthony supporters

Suzie B's

200
1st President of Texas

Sam Houston

200

The second great awakening an awakening about what?

Religion!

200

Major reason to go to California

GOLD

200

A political attempt to counter slavery in the newly acquired territory won in the Mexican American war.

Wilmot Proviso


200

Movement to end slavery

Abolitionism

300

Battle between TEXANS and the Mexican Government

The Alamo

300

Asylum Reformer

Dorothea Dix

300

Major reason to go to Oregon and settling west in general

Free land!

300

Name for the eruption of Violence in Kansas over the issue of slavery

Bleeding Kansas

300

name an abolitionist leader

Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Fredrick Douglas, William Lloyd Garrison

400

Mexican president

Santa Anna

400

Movement to lessen the consumption of alcohol

Temperance 

400

What animal mainly pulled the wagons.

OXEN

400

Kansas entered the union as a free or slave state?

FREE

400

The American General who led American soldiers through the Mexican American war.

They would later become President.

Zachary Taylor

500

American President during the war

Polk

500

Name a women's rights leader.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Motte. 

500

What state did the trail begin in

Missouri!

500
What was one of the effects of the laws signed as part of the compromise of 1850

California admitted as a free state

No slave trade in D.C.

Texas border dispute resolved

Popular sovereignty in Utah and New Mexico

Enforce of the Fugitive Slave Act

500

DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!

For 1000 Points, which tribe did the trail of tears mostly affect

The Cherokee Nation