Early Presidents
The first president of the United States, author of the "Farewell Address."
Who is George Washington?
This philosophy stated that (white) Americans had the God-given right to expand West.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This abolitionist was a spy for the Union army but is most famous for her work taking runaway slaves to freedom.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This year is famously the year that the American Civil War ended.
When is 1865?
This white supremacist group used terror and violence to control the Black people of the south.
Who are the KKK?
This president is credited with ending slavery in America.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This transportation innovation allowed people and products to move quickly across the country in the 1800s.
What is the Railroad?
(Steam engine, locomotive, train)
This enslaved minister lead one of the largest known slave revolts in the south before being captured and executed.
Who is Nat Turner?
This supposed country only existed for 4 years and was defeated by the Union, ending the Civil War.
What is the Confederacy?
(Or Confederate States of America)
This blackface minstrel character is the namesake for the era of racial segregation and degradation in the south.
What is Jim Crow?
This president doubled the size of the United States in 1803.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This deal made with France gave the U.S. control over the Mississippi river and greatly increased the land size of the U.S.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This decision stipulated that any new state above the southern border of Missouri would become a free state and below would become a slave state.
Missouri Compromise
This political party received no electoral votes from the south but still won the election preceding the Civil War, creating more tension between the North and South.
What is the Republican Party?
This Constitutional Amendment officially outlawed slavery (with one major exception for convicted criminals).
What is the 13th Amendment?
This president was known for using the power of the veto more than any president before him and ignoring the Supreme Court.
To make room for settlers, President Jackson put Native Americans on this harrowing journey.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This author published memoirs informing people of his life during slavery, and also served as an advisor to Lincoln during the Civil War.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This holiday commemorates the day, well past the end of the Civil War, when enslaved Texans were informed by Federal troops that they had been emancipated.
What is Juneteenth?
This Supreme Court case legalized segregation in the south.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This president has a "doctrine" named after him, a policy the U.S. adopted declaring that no European country should colonize anywhere near America.
Who is James Monroe?
Work on this 363-mile waterway was completed almost 200 years ago, allowing travel between the Hudson River and the Great Lakes.
What is the Erie Canal?
(Simply answering "canal" does not confer credit)
This enslaved man lost his supreme court case decided in 1857, enshrining into caselaw that the Federal government couldn't dictate what states had slavery and that enslaved people were not citizens and could not file lawsuits.
Who is Dred Scott?
("Sandford" is an incorrect answer)
This borough in Pennsylvania was the site of the Civil War's bloodiest battle, made famous by the President's address given to memorialize the fallen.
Where is Gettysburg?
This President betrayed the policy goals of his own party and ended Reconstruction as part of a deal to become President in 1878.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?