Colonial/Early Rep
The most common form of military service during the colonial era.
What was the militia?
Large territorial gain during Jefferson's presidency.
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
Result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.
What was "Bleeding Kansas"?
Celebrated citizen soldier of the war who rose to brigadier general.
Who was Joshua Chamberlain?
The first African American cadet to graduate from West Point.
Who was Henry O. Flipper?
Led the Continental Army.
Who was George Washington?
Part of the Army's mission in the southeastern part of the country between 1820-1840.
What was Indian Removal?
What was the surrender of Fort Sumter?
Allowed for large scale recruitment of Black men to serve in the US Army.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
Authored Military Policy of the United States.
Who was Emory Upton?
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
Nicknamed "Old Rough and Ready."
Who was Zachery Taylor?
Who was Robert E. Lee?
Marked one of most shocking examples of Confederate Army refusing to offer quarter to USCT soldiers.
What was the Fort Pillow Massacre?
The final military engagement of the Indian Wars.
What was the Massacre at Wounded Knee?
Threat to civilian controlled army.
What was the Newburgh Conspiracy?
Nicknamed "Old Fuss and Feathers."
Who was Winfield Scott?
Native Virginian and USMA graduate who remained loyal to the United States and served mostly in the western theater.
Who was George H. Thomas?
A government agency run by the Army to protect and educate freed people in the South.
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
War ostensibly fought to secure Cuba's independence from Spain.
What was the Spanish-American War?
Founded under the Peace Establishment Act of 1802.
What is the United States Military Academy?
Term coined by John I. O'Sullivan in 1845 to describe western expansion.
What was "Manifest Destiny"?
Nicknamed "Unconditional Surrender" after he refused terms to Confederates at Fort Donelson.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
What was the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
What was the 1901 Army Reorganization Act?