Path to Independence
These are three of the original 13 English colonies (name any 3).
What are New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia
This construction project linked the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean and created new economic opportunities.
What is the Erie Canal?
This group of activists fought against the system of slavery.
What are Abolitionists?
Before cotton, this was the most profitable cash crop in the Southern colonies.
What is tobacco?
This is one new animal, crop or disease brought to the Americas by European colonists.
What are horses, cows, pigs, wheat, rice, oats, smallpox, bubonic plague, measles, influenza etc (more answers possible)?
This is the belief that America must expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific due to the white man's racial and cultural superiority.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This was the first official women's rights conference, where the Declaration of Sentiments was signed.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
This enslaved preacher led the deadliest slave rebellion in American history.
Who is Nat Turner?
This conflict increased the size of the British colonies in America but caused the nation to nearly go bankrupt.
What is the French and Indian War?
This President famously removed Native Americans from their land and forced them to move West.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
The first and second of these caused huge revivals in Christian religious fervor and were led by fiery evangelical preachers.
What are the Great Awakenings?
These two of the advantages the Union had at the outset of the Civil War?
What are a larger population, larger army, more banks and money, more railroad lines, more factories, and more food.
This consists of the first 10 amendments to the Constitution and were intended to safeguard the liberties of the people and states.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This presidential foreign policy doctrine warned European powers to stay away from the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This movement, led primarily by women, pushed for people to moderate or abstain from drinking alcohol.
What is Temperance?
This is the new nation founded by Southern slave states after seceding from the Union following Lincoln's election.
What is the Confederate States of America?
This author wrote "Common Sense" a pamphlet encouraging Americans to declare their independence from Britain.
Who is Thomas Paine?
This economic system advocated for by Henry Clay, pushed for America to manufacture more goods and be less dependent on foreign trade.
What is the American System?
This spiritual and literary movement that began in New England in the 1820s believed in the purity of the individual and the importance of nature.
What is Transcendentalism?
This was the deadliest battle of the Civil War as well as the greatest victory for the Union army.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?