Nationalism & Sectionalism
Opening the Frontier
The Changing Workplace
The Civil War
Reconstruction
100

This invention ended up expanding slavery in the American South

What is the Cotton Gin?

100

The belief that the U.S. borders should stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific?

What is Manifest Destiny?

100

Considered one of the most important Revolutions in human history in which machinery replaced organic labor

What is the industrial revolution?

100

This military strategy was issued to free the slaves held in Confederate territory and deter Europe from interfering

What is the Emancipation Proclamation?

100

Considered one of the most ineffective Presidents for refusing the carry out the Reconstruction Act

Who is Andrew Johnson?
200

This statement asserted the interests of the U.S. by defying the interests of other countries (in Europe)

What is the Monroe Doctrine?

200

The first President of the Republic of Texas

Who is Samuel Houston?

200

This Massachusetts town became the center of textile production

What is Lowell, MA?

200

The belief that settlers in a territory get to vote on whether to legalize slavery

What is Popular Sovereignty?

200

Civil War General who served as President throughout the era of Reconstruction 

Who is Ulysses S. Grant?

300

This agreement in Congress set a permanent dividing line for the allowance of slavery

What is the Missouri Compromise?

300

The Mexican General who laid siege to the garrison at the Alamo

Who is Santa Anna?

300

An influx of these immigrants were known as strike breakers because they were willing to work for less

What are the Irish?

300

This statesmen vehemently opposed any compromise on slavery and was therefore not chosen to be the Republican nominee

Who is William Seward?

300

This Amendment granted citizenship to the formally enslaved and equal protection under the law

What is the 14th Amendment?

400

This policy removed Native Americans from their land and replaced them with white settlers (and their slaves)

What is the Indian Removal Act?

400

A large influx of these immigrants came to the West Coast after the discovery of Gold in California

Who are the Chinese?

400

This landmark meeting in upstate New York called for universal suffrage

What is the Seneca Falls Convention?

400

A notorious camp where thousands of Union Soldiers died of disease 

What is the Andersonville Prison Camp?

400

Founded by a band of former Confederates, this group would terrorize Black communities throughout the South

What is the Ku Klux Klan?

500

meaning "friendship" this Ship endured a slave revolt and became a symbol for abolition in the 1840s

What is "La Amistad"?

500

This landmark battle inspired the U.S. Marine Corps Hymn and the creation of the Ninos Heros memorial in Mexico City

What is the Battle of Chapultepec?

500

Regardless of having children, the Government has argued the importance of these institutions

What are tax-funded public schools?

500

This abolitionist believed that he heard voices from God to end slavery by any means necessary 

Who is John Brown?

500

Despite not being passed, this proposal would have given substaintial reparations to the formally enslaved

What is Forty Acres and a Mule?