America's Myths 🦅 🫥
America: Implicated in Slavery 🕸️
Native America: Facing Injustice Enacting Resistance 🪶 🦬
Industry, Infrastructure, Economy
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Women's Roles: Resistance and Warfare ♀️⚔️
Defining moments, Defining Wars 🪖
Abolition
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This 19th century concept justified American expansion by claiming it was divinely ordained.
What is Manifest Destiny?
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Name of painter, year, title?
100
This rebellion, led by enslaved people in Virginia in 1831 increased fears of further uprisings.
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
100
This act, signed into law in 1830, forcibly removed Indigenous peoples from their lands.
What is the Indian Removal Act.
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Who signed the act into law?
100
This period in the early 19th century saw dramatic changes in transportation, communication, and industrialization, transforming the American economy from a local, agrarian system to a national, market-driven economy.
What is the Market Revolution?
100
This group of colonial women played a critical role in resisting British policies during the American Revolution by boycotting British goods, spinning homemade textiles, and promoting the colonial fight for independence.
Who were the Daughters of Liberty?
100
The Declaration of Independence, approved on July 4, 1776, declared that “all men are created equal” and outlined grievances against British rule
What is the Declaration of Independence?
100
This formerly enslaved man became a prominent abolitionist, orator, and author of the Narrative of the Life of ...
Who is Frederick Douglass?
200
This president made significant land acquisitions, such as the Louisiana Purchase, fueling manifest destiny. Hint: $2 bill.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
200
This image depicts a violent incident in Congress following a heated speech in May 1856. Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts was beaten with a cane by Representative Preston Brooks of South Carolina after Sumner accused Senator Andrew Butler, Brooks’s cousin, of defending slavery for personal and immoral reasons.
What is the Caning of Charles Sumner?
200
The Trail of Tears, or Trail on Which They Cried refers to the forced migration of several Native nations, but is most often associated with this nation.
Who are the Cherokee?
200
This invention by Eli Whitney in 1793 revolutionized cotton processing and expanded slavery in the American South.
What is the cotton gin?
200
Held in 1848, this groundbreaking convention in New York marked the start of the women’s rights movement and produced the Declaration of Sentiments, demanding equal rights for women, including the right to vote. 
What is the Seneca Fall Convention?
200
This 1846–1848 war resulted in the U.S. acquiring vast territories in the southwest through the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
What is the Mexican-American War?
200
This abolitionist newspaper, founded by William Lloyd Garrison, called for the immediate end of slavery.
What is The Liberator?
300
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War in 1848, resulting in the U.S. acquisition of vast territories, including present-day California, Arizona, and New Mexico.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
300
This political movement opposed the expansion of slavery into western territories, arguing that free labor and free soil were essential for preserving economic opportunity for white settlers.
What is the Free Soil Party?
300
This 1680 revolt, also known as Pope's Rebellion, resulted in the successful expulsion of Spanish rule. 
What is the Pueblo Revolt.
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What else do you remember about this revolt?
300
The development of railroads connected markets and promoted this economic concept in the 19th century.
What is capitalism?
300
Not only was she a spy during the Civil War, this formerly enslaved woman led the Combahee River Raid -- a major military operation which freed over 700 people enslaved on plantations in South Carolina.
Who is Harriet Tubman
300
In 1863, this declaration issued by Abraham Lincoln proclaimed freedom for slaves in Confederate-held territories.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation.
300
This former enslaved woman became a powerful abolitionist and women’s rights advocate, known for her speech “Ain’t I a Woman?” and her dedication to linking the struggles for racial and gender equality.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
400
This historic route symbolized the hope for a better life, despite its harsh conditions. By 1848, it led approximately 20,000 settlers west of the Rockies, with three-fourths settling in this territory.
What is the Oregon Trail?
400
The Fugitive Slave Act mandated that escaped enslaved people in free states must be returned to their enslavers. This 1854 case involved a preacher who had escaped slavery in Virginia and was captured in Boston. The federal government spent over $40,000 enforcing his return to slavery. The case sparked widespread protests and violence, illustrating how the Fugitive Slave Act radicalized many Northerners.
What is the case of Anthony Burns?
400
This powerful confederacy, known for its sophisticated diplomacy and unity among six nations, played a pivotal role in colonial and early U.S. history but faced challenges after the American Revolution due to broken alliances and land encroachments.
Who are the Haudenosaunee Confederacy (Iroquois)?
400
This cash crop became the dominant force in the American economy during the 19th century, surpassing tobacco, sugar, and indigo, and was deeply tied to the institution of slavery. Its production proved crucial to the development of industry in the north, providing the raw material necessary for the Northern economy to thrive.
What is cotton?
400
An actress before the war, this woman served as a wartime spy, using her guile to get close to Confederate officers. She snuck military plans and drawings to Union officers in her shoes. After being caught and sentenced to death, her life was spared when Union forces occupied her native New Orleans. 
Who is Pauline Cushman?
400
This battle in 1863 is often considered the turning point of the Civil War. It was the site of a Union victory and Lincoln’s famous address.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
400
This movement emphasized the urgency of abolition. Although abolition had been a gradual process throughout the north, on the eve of the Civil War, abolitionists ushered in a new wave of activism. This movement demanded immediate and total freedom for enslaved people. In spite of its name, these abolitionists insisted on peaceful action.
What is militant abolitionism?
500
This doctrine, issued in 1823 reinforced the myth that the United States was the protector of the Western Hemisphere (and declared the Americas were off limits to further European colonization).
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
500
After ban of the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade and the abolition of slavery in the Northern United States, this euphemism was widely used throughout the South to refer to the system of slavery that remained. It functioned to obscure the harsh realities of the violence of the system of slavery in the United States.
What is the Peculiar Institution?
500
In 1836, this Cherokee leader denounced the fraudulent Treaty of New Echota, calling it an act of injustice and oppression, and appealed to Congress to recognize the Cherokee Nation’s sovereignty during the forced removal known as the Trail of Tears.
Who is Chief John Ross?
500
Alongside the Erie Canal, this period of rapid infrastructure expansion in the early 19th century included the construction of national roads, turnpikes, and the rise of steamboats and railroads, revolutionizing transportation and economic growth across the United States.
What is the Transportation Revolution?
500
In 1852, this woman published the best-selling novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin. While her helped bring antislavery ideas into everyday Northern conversations, it also, unfortunately, reinforced certain racial stereotypes.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
500
To resolve a crisis in the growing nation, this 1820 agreement admitted Missouri as a "slave state" while Maine was admitted as a free state in an attempt to balance power. While this agreement was reached, the stability of the Union continued in crisis. A subsequent Compromise of 1850 only worsened the sectional crisis.
What is the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
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These sisters, born to a wealthy Southern family, became abolitionists and early advocates for women’s rights after witnessing the cruelties of slavery firsthand
Who are the Grimké sisters? (Sarah and Angelina)