Civil War nurse who founded the American Red Cross and advocated for women's rights.
Who is Clara Barton?
100
Network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century slaves to escape to free states and Canada.
What is the Underground Railroad?
100
Years in which the "first modern war" was fought.
When is 1861-1865?
100
Name three states that made up the new "Cotton Kingdom" that arose with western migration after the 1790s.
Where are (Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas) ?
100
Their mid-19th century fear of the impact of immigration on American life led to anti-immigrant riots and attacks and the formation of racialized stereotypes.
What are nativists?
200
Former slave who went on to be a prominent leader of the abolitionist movement.
Who is Fredrick Douglass?
200
1823 warning to European nations to stay out of the Western hemisphere that became the foundation of U.S. foreign policy for decades.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
200
Year of the Missouri Compromise.
When is 1820?
200
Site of the federal arsenal assaulted by John Brown and 21 other abolitionists resulting in Brown's eventually execution.
Where is Harper's Ferry?
200
Their opposition to Alexander Hamilton's financial plan in part led Thomas Jefferson to negotiate an agreement that included the relocation of the national capitol to Washington, D.C.
Who are strict constructionists?
300
He proposed a five point economic plan that became the foundation for Federalism and the Federalist party.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
300
1838-39 forced removal of 18,000 Cherokee men, women, children from Georgia to Oklahoma.
What is the Trail of Tears?
300
Starting year of the "second American revolution" against Great Britain.
When is 1812?
300
City that was a major site of textile production where "mill girls" found opportunities in all phases of production from spinning to weaving to finishing cloth.
Where is Lowell, MA?
300
Initiated a period known as the "reign of witches"--deporting people from abroad deemed "dangerous" and prosecuting public assemblies and publications critical of government.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798?
400
Strong proponent of women's rights and woman suffrage in the mid-19th century.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
400
1837 ruling that essentially declared that only whites could be citizens of the United States.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
400
Year of the Louisiana Purchase.
When is 1803?
400
Mormon founder Joseph Smith's home state where angry mobs forced him to flee west, largely in response to his practice of polygamy.
Where is New York?
400
Resulted in the mass relocation of African Americans to the Deep South and further ingrained the institution of slavery in the South.
What is the Second Middle Passage?
500
He surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse, ending the Civil War.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
500
Belief that God intended the American nation to reach all the way to the Pacific Ocean (and beyond?).
What is Manifest Destiny?
500
Date on which Abraham Lincoln was mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth (he died the next day).
When is April 14, 1865?
500
Thomas Jefferson oversaw the United States' acquisition of this large territory in the early 1800s.
What is Louisiana?
500
One of its most immediate impacts was the mass enrollment of black troops in the Union military.