WHO
WHAT
WHEN
WHERE
ERA
100

THE CIVIL WAR WAS WHO v. WHO?

NORTH v. SOUTH
(UNION v. CONFEDERATES;
YANKEES v. REBELS)

100

THE CORE ISSUE THAT LAUNCHED THE U.S. INTO A CIVIL WAR.

SLAVERY

100

THE YEAR THE FIRST COLONIAL SETTLEMENT WAS ESTABLISHED (JAMESTOWN)

1607

100

THE CITY WHERE THE TREATY OF PARIS OF 1783 WAS SIGNED.

PARIS

100

CIVIL WAR

CIVIL WAR (& RECONSTRUCTION)

200

WHO WAS PRESIDENT WHEN THE CIVIL WAR BEGAN IN 1861?

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

200

THIS IS THE SUPREME LAW OF THE UNITED STATES, ESTABLISHING THE FRAMEWORK FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT; IT OUTLINES THE DIVISION OF POWER BETWEEN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND THE STATES.

THE U.S. CONSTITUTION

200

THE YEAR AMERICA DECLARED INDEPENDENCE

1776

200

THE LAST BATTLE OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR WAS FOUGHT WHERE?

YORKTOWN (VIRGINIA)

200

MAYFLOWER LANDS AT PLYMOUTH ROCK

COLONIAL

300

WHAT IS THE TERM USED FOR SOMEONE WHO WAS AGAINST SLAVERY?

ABOLITIONIST

300

IN 1820, THIS ALLOWED MISSOURI TO BE ADMITTED INTO THE UNION AS A SLAVE STATE, AND MAINE AS A FREE STATE, TO MAINTAIN THE BALANCE OF POWER BETWEEN FREE AND SLAVE STATES.

MISSOURI COMPROMISE

300

THE YEAR THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR BEGAN.

1775

300

"BLEEDING __________" (STATE NAME) WAS THE NICKNAME GIVEN DUE TO A VIOLENT PERIOD BETWEEN 1854 AND 1861 DUE TO PRO-SLAVERY AND ANTI-SLAVERY SETTLERS CLASHING AFTER THE PRESIDENT PASSED THE KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT.

KANSAS

300

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

AMERICAN REVOLUTION

400

WHICH ABOLITIONIST FREED SLAVES USING THE 'UNDERGROUND RAILROAD?'

HARRIET TUBMAN

400

THIS NOVEL, WRITTEN BY HARRIET BEECHER STOWE, DEPICTED THE PROBLEMS OF SLAVERY AND TREATMENT OF HUMANS.

UNCLE TOM'S CABIN

400

THE YEAR THE CONSTITUTION WAS SIGNED.

1787

400

THE MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR WAS FOUGHT OVER A LAND DISPUTE FOLLOWING THE U.S. ANNEXATION OF WHAT STATE?

TEXAS

400

ABRAHAM LINCOLN ELECTED PRESIDENT

CIVIL WAR (& RECONSTRUCTION)

500

WHO WAS THE ENSLAVED MAN THAT SUED FOR HIS FREEDOM IN THE 1840s, WHICH LEAD TO A SUPREME COURT DECISION STATING AFRICAN AMERICANS WERE NOT CITIZENS, AND THEREFORE HAD NO RIGHTS - WHICH MEANT HE COULDN'T SUE IN FEDERAL COURT.

DRED SCOTT

500

THIS WAS THE FORCED RELOCATION OF INDIGENOUS TRIBES THAT BEGAN IN THE 1830's.

THE INDIAN REMOVAL ACT
("TRAIL OF TEARS")

500

YEAR THE CIVIL WAR STARTED

1861

500

NAME ONE OF THE TWO CITIES THAT THE U.S. CAPITAL WAS LOCATED IN BEFORE WASHINGTON D.C.

NEW YORK CITY; PHILADELPHIA

500

WAR OF 1812

NEW NATION