Europeans of this faith settled New England in the 1600s.
Puritanism.
100
The primary cash crop of the South after the American Revolution was...
Cotton
100
Americans settled the West and justified with the belief that they were destined to do so. This belief was called...
Manifest Destiny.
100
The Federalists favored this country in foreign affairs.
Britain.
100
Littleton sent men to fight in this first battle of the American Revolution.
Lexington and Concord.
200
This president was the second president and was also born in Massachusetts.
John Adams.
200
The primary cash crop of the South before the Revolution was...
Tobacco.
200
American acquired the California, New Mexico and other territories from this war.
The Mexican-American War.
200
Americans agreed to stay out of European affairs through this doctrine.
The Monroe Doctrine.
200
Littleton sent men to fight in this second battle of the Revolution.
Bunker Hill.
300
This man was a famous Transcendentalist from Concord.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
300
Plantation owners used this fictional character as a justification for owning slaves.
Jim Crow.
300
This president was strongly associated with Manifest Destiny.
James K. Polk
300
During the Quasi-War, the French refused to receive American ambassadors unless bribes were paid. This event was known as...
The XYZ affair
300
Littleton had an active society of women who tried to dissuade people from using alcohol in the antebellum period. This sort of society was a...
Temperance Society.
400
This senator was a fervent abolitionist and represented Massachusetts in the Senate. He was also beaten with a cane.
Charles Sumner.
400
This slave revolt resulted in 56 deaths of white men and women in Virginia.
Nat Turner's Rebellion.
400
This religious group faced persecution in the East and so settled in the West.
The Mormons.
400
Before the War of 1812, the British used to practice this on American sailors.
Impressment.
400
Littleton has a house with a bullet hole in the door. The door was shot because a supporter of the British lived there during the Revolution. This supporter was part of a group called...
Tories.
500
New Englanders in the War of 1812 gathered here to protest the Embargo and perhaps to secede.
The Hartford Convention.
500
This term refers to the machine that kept slavery profitable after the Revolution; this man invented it.
Cotton Gin, Ely Whitney.
500
This state's desire to enter the Union as a free state led to the Compromise of 1850.
California.
500
Britain decided to not recognize the Confederacy because of Britain's control of these two countries.
Egypt and India.
500
Littleton had a community of these Native Americans, who were some of the first Native Americans to try and assimilate into white culture.