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Animalia
100

Historians distinguish this period partly by emphasizing the emergence of camp meetings.

What is the Second Great Awakening?

100

Aside from the Constitution, this ID was the most consequential national initiative of 1787.

What is the Northwest Ordinance?

100

In the below depiction, this man defies the Second Bank of the United States.

Who is Andrew Jackson?

100

During the Market Revolution, this town pioneered an urban model that combined textile production with residential life.

What is Lowell, Massachusetts?

100

This creature transformed life on the Great Plains beginning late in the seventeenth century.

What is the horse?

200

The unfulfilled vision of this president influenced the principles of the Whig Party.

Who was John Quincy Adams?

200

The abolition of the international slave trade was a principal reason for this phenomenon.

What is the Second Middle Passage?

200

The below political cartoon depicts the foes of the Unitd States in this conflict.

What is the War of 1812?

200

This building hosted the Second Continental Congress as well as the Constitutional Convention.

What is Independence Hall? (Or Pennsylvania State House)

200

Thomas Jefferson received the "mammoth cheese" from a congregation of this religious denomination.

Who are Baptists?

300

Stephen A. Douglas outlined this position during the Lincoln-Douglas debates, disturbing pro-slavery expansionist Democrats.

What is the Freeport Doctrine?

300

This institution initiated a pattern of elected government in English colonies. 

What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?

300

One lucrative variety of this product, innovated in 1833, was called "Petit Gulf"

What is cotton?

300

Puebloan rebels besieged this city in 1680.

What is Santa Fe?

300

The Beaver Wars, or Haudenosaunee mourning wars, culminated in this diplomatic arrangement.

What is the Grand Settlement of 1701?

400

Despite being kicked out of this region during the War of 1812, the American Fur Company obtained a virtual monopoly on the fur trade elsewhere, especially along the upper Missouri and upper Mississippi Rivers.

What is the Oregon Country/Pacific Northwest?

400

Joseph E. Johnston suffered a significant wound prior to this event.

What were the Seven Days Battles?

400

The legal controversy over this man prompted one Bostonian to say, “We went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, compromise Union Whigs & woke up stark mad Abolitionists.”

Who was Anthony Burns?
400

This Illinois settlement was named Quashquame, then Venus, then Commerce, before new arrivals gave it a final Hebrew-derived name.

What is Nauvoo?

400

The traffic in enslaved Africans probably introduced this deadly creature to the Americas, where it proliferated.

What is Aedes aegypti, the yellow fever mosquito?

500

The Fabian strategy characterized the maneuvers not only of George Washington but also this final commander of the Continental Army's Southern Department.

Who is Nathanael Greene?

500

Mary Rowlandson gave us the only physical description of this ID.

Who is Weetamoo?

500

Soon after the Revolution, New Englanders suspected that this mysterious anti-Christian organization threatened American liberty. 

The Illuminati

500

In the Shawnee language, this river is called the Pellissippi, but the Seneca (Haudenosaunee) name won general American use instead.

What is the Ohio River?

500

These two creatures represented the Jacksonian Democratic Party in cartoons.

What are the donkey and the rooster?