The two Paleo Cultures located in present day northeastern New Mexico and the U.S. Southwest
Who are the Clovis and Folsom People?
100
This battle is considered the turning point of the Revolutionary War in favor of the colonists.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
100
This major event in the War With Mexico caused Mexico to finally surrender to the U.S.
What is the capture of Mexico City?
100
His main goal after the Civil War was to restore the North and the South into one Union.
What is President Lincoln?
100
Minerals were found in these four states that drove miners west in search of wealth.
What are California, Nevada, Arizona, and Colorado?
200
The original colony of Jamestown is located at this present day location.
What is Virginia?
200
This method was used to decide how slaves would be counted into the population to determine representation in Congress.
What is Three-Fifths Compromise?
200
They settled in the Utah territory for the purpose of seeking religious freedom.
Who are the Mormons?
200
This law of the land granted citizenship to all freed slaves regardless of what state they were born in.
What is the 14th Amendment?
200
This government Act was passed to give anyone who moved into certain areas of the West 160 acres of free land, provided that they would cultivate and improve the land.
What is the Homestead Act of 1862?
300
This English colonial region is was best known for it's manufacturing.
What are the New England Colonies?
300
The year the Louisiana Purchase was completed.
What is 1803?
300
The Period of history where people began buying and selling goods for others rather than producing things for their own personal consumption.
What is Market Revolution?
300
They helped bring an end to Reconstruction by ruling that each state had the right to decide its own civil rights laws rather than the Federal Government.
What is Supreme Court?
300
Cattlemen, Farmers, and Exodusters.
Who were the three main groups of frontier settlers on the Great Plains?
400
This early American culture settled mainly in the present day Four Corners region of the southwestern U.S.
Who are the Anasazi?
400
This President refused to support the Supreme Court ruling in Worcester V. Georgia that stated the Cherokee people could not be invaded by the state of Georgia.
What is Andrew Jackson?
400
This territory was primarily settled by Christian missionaries seeking new converts and farmers looking for better farm land.
What is the Oregon Territory?
400
This organization assisted former slaves who had been devestated by the Civil War by providing food, clothing, job assistance, and education.
What is Freedmen's Bureau?
400
Both Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull surrenderd to U.S. authories at the end of this event.
What are the 2nd Sioux Wars?
500
This major historic event during the Colonial Period the the Colonies confidence that they could be independant and gave them military experience.
What was the British victory in the French and Indian War?
500
This document stated that the Colonies should have the power to run their own affairs and fight back if the British used military force agains them.
What is First Continental Congress?
500
The U.S. paid Mexico $10 million for this section of land south of the Gila River, establishing the present day border between the two countries.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
500
Rutherford B. Hayes became president at this time in exchange for the North removing troops from the South, and giving Home Rule back to the southern states.
What is the Election of 1876?
500
Barbed wire and heartier breeds of cattle.
What brought an end to the 'Open Range' era of ranching in the west?