Provided lots of labor (job) opportunities!
BONUS: Where did Chinese immigrants go to work on railroads?
Pres. Jefferson Davis stated that the seceding states were following principles of what document?
Declaration of Independence
BONUS: What date was the DOI signed on?
The dude that moved all those natives away to take their land and gold.
Andrew Jackson
1607
The Temperance Movement was started by women who didn't want to be beat anymore. What is the Temperance Movement trying to change?
No more alcohol
Name two states that used to be owned by Mexico, but became states before and after the US-Mexican war!
Texas and California
BONUS: Why did California get to statehood so quickly?
Battle of Gettysburg
That one guy that started Manifest Destiny, he was a president at one point but you could probably find his name under the Manifest Destiny notes.
James K Polk
1620
Pilgrims founded Plymouth
BONUS: What else was made during that year to help Pilgrims govern themselves?
Harriet Tubman helped slaves escape on the Underground Railroad. Harriet Beecher Stowe showed the world the reality of slavery through Uncle Tom's Cabin. What social reform are they associated with?
Abolitionism
Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were leaders for a specific social reform. What is the purpose of their reform movement?
Women's Suffrage, voting rights
Name two generals in the Confederate army
Stonewall Jackson and Robert E Lee
BONUS: Who was the Union's general?
The dude that started the Democratic-Republican party way back with George Washington's presidency.
Thomas Jefferson!
BONUS: Who started the other political party because he hated Thomas Jefferson?
1775-1783
BONUS: Do you happen to remember the turning point of the American Revolution?
One impact of this spiritual revival is a rise of social activism (people challenging slavery, drinking, etc.) What is the name of the spiritual revival that occurred in the 1800s?
Second Great Awakening
With Manifest Destiny came a lot of new territories. It also gave a rise to multiple compromises, such as the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850. What was the main purpose of these compromises?
Whether or not to extend slavery to new territories!
BONUS: What is another "compromise" or act that was made to decide if states are free or slave?
What was the strategy used by the Union army to strangle the Confederate army?
Anaconda Plan
BONUS: What is one method of strangling used by the North?
The old school French soldier that helped us out in the American Revolution. That dude's a Life-saver
Lafayette!
1787
Constitution was created!
House of Burgesses, Mayflower Compact, Fundamental Orders of Connecticut. What were they made for?
Self-government or representative government
Irish immigrants had one main push factor, a reason that made them leave their homeland. What was the reason Irish immigrants left Ireland for America?
Potato famine
BONUS: What does the word famine mean?
What are the causes of the Civil War? HINT: There are two and they both start with an S.
Sectionalism and Slavery
This dude... he's so goofy he made a whole other country because he got mad at Abraham Lincoln! Confederate States of America, he called it.
Jefferson Davis
1861-1865
Civil War
BONUS: Do you happen to remember the FIRST battle of the Civil War?
I bet you can't define salutary neglect! (HINT: It's way back in the beginning!!)
It's long distance between the colonies and England!