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The top general in the Revolutionary War and first president.
Who was George Washington?
The city where the Constitutional Convention was held from May to September of 1787.
What is Philadelphia?
This invention was created by Eli Whitney and sped up a process.
What is the cotton gin?
This unexpected and awful event happened in Washington, DC, on April 14, 1865, only about a week after the Civil War ended.
What was the assassination of Abraham Lincoln?
This amendment to the Constitution bans the quartering of soldiers in US homes.
What is the 3rd Amendment?
This Federalist believed in creating a National Bank and was the country's first Secretary of the Treasury.
Who was Alexander Hamilton?
The home state of both Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass.
What is Maryland?
This inventor of the steel plow helped farmers break up their land to plant seeds and crops.
Who is John Deere?
This 3-day battle saw the Confederacy win day 1 and the Union win the second and third and the overall victory.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This was the United States' first Secretary of State hired by our first president.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
This abolitionist was from the New England area and published the anti-slavery newspaper, The Liberator.
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
This Civil War battle site in Maryland is the location of the bloodiest one day battle in US history.
Where is Antietam?
The telegraph helped speed up communication across the country and was invented by this gentleman.
Who was Samuel Morse?
The release of this novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, on March 20, 1852, started to inflame the debate between slavery in the United States.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This movement was against alcohol use and believed it was bad for society in many ways.
What is the Temperance Movement?
American known for encouraging people to move to the area of Tejas in Mexico and was at one point jailed by Santa Anna.
Who was Stephen F. Austin?
This is the home country of Andrew Carnegie, who became a giant in the field of steel production.
Where is Scotland?
This waterway helped people and goods travel from the Hudson River in the East to the Great Lakes region in the midwest.
What is the Erie Canal?
This presidential election ended in a tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr and was decided by the House of Representatives.
What is the Election of 1800?
This is the Native American tribe that was the central focus in the movie Dances With Wolves.
Who are the Lakota/Sioux people?
This former general was relieved of his duties by President Lincoln during the Civil War and later challenged him as a candidate in the Election of 1864.
Who was George McClellan?
This is the location where gold was first discovered in California.
What is Sutter's Mill?
The Civil War rifles were deadlier because of this newer ammunition invention.
What is the Minié ball?
This meeting, held in July of 1848, sought to increase the rights of women in the US and was led by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
This inventor is credited with making the first steam engine that was used in river boats.
Who was Robert Fulton?