Going My Way?
Deep Thoughts
Skirmishes and other Acts of War
This Little Piggy Went to the Market
We the People
It's all Greek to Me
100
The belief that the United States would stretch from coast to coast
What is Manifest Destiny?
100
The name for the movement embraced by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau
What is Transcendentalism?
100
The bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
What is Gettysburg?
100
The term used to describe the movement that opposed immigration to the United States.
What is nativism?
100
He was known as the "Great Negotiator", often brokering compromises on divisive issues in Congress.
Who is Henry Clay?
100
Widely thought to have freed all the slaves, this declaration by President Lincoln was delivered on the Gettysburg battlefield.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
200
This was purchased as a result of the Haitian Revolution as Napoleon no longer felt he needed the land.
What is the Louisiana Purchase (Territory)?
200
This is the idea that women should be at home teaching American values to their sons.
What is "republican motherhood"?
200
A huge opponent of slavery, he led the raid on Harper's Ferry in hopes of starting a slave revolt.
Who is John Brown?
200
The invention of interchangeable parts would create this in the factory system.
What is mass production?
200
He was Abraham Lincoln's debate opponent when both were running for President
Who is Stephen Douglas?
200
The legal term used that allowed slaves their freedom.
What is manumission?
300
In an effort to appease the South, this legislation allowed Maine to remain a slave-free state, while Missouri allowed slaves.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
300
She undertook the plight of the mentally ill and sought to make treatment more humane.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
300
Using "popular sovereignty" as the basis to allow it's people to authorize slavery, this state battled it out, and that time would eventually be known as "Bleeding" what?
What is Kansas?
300
This Catholic group of immigrants, often working lower wage positions as a result of anti-immigrant sentiment, would support the political machine of Tammany Hall, that would allow them to eventually play a huge role in American politics.
Who were the Irish?
300
She wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin", and started conversation on the true toll of slavery.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
300
This is the term used to describe the differing cultures of the states - economic, political and social. These differences would ultimately lead to the Civil War.
What is sectionalism?
400
The Annexation of Texas resulted in a war with this neighbor of the United States.
What is Mexico?
400
The Seneca Convention was the first of many advocating the right for this.
What is women's suffrage?
400
In 1860, this state was the first to secede from the United States and where the first engagement of the Civil War began.
What is South Carolina?
400
Contrary to popular belief, this invention of Eli Whitney's increased demand for cotton and encouraged the enslavement of more people.
What is the cotton gin?
400
The term used under the Kansas-Nebraska Act that would allow its people the right to decide whether those territories should advocate for slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
400
Enslaved person at the center of a Supreme Court decision that stated a slave was property, and under the Constitution, people should not be deprived of their property.
Who is Dred Scot?
500
The expansion of the United States westward ultimately paved the way for the creation of this, a way of moving people and goods across the country.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
500
Horace Mann advocated for free public education. His schools gained traction, in this, his home state.
What is Massachusetts?
500
This event in American history under President Jackson's Indian Removal Act would see thousands of native people moved across the country to eventually settle in Oklahoma.
What is the Trail of Tears?
500
The building of this in 1825 by New York helped propel commerce across by connecting the Great Lakes to the Hudson River.
What is the Erie Canal?
500
In an effort to justify the use of slaves, he called slavery a "positive good".
Who is John C. Calhoun?
500
The term used to describe the period after the War of 1812, where the Republican party dominated and reflected American nationalism and unity.
What is the Era of Good Feelings?