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Hamilton
Early Colonization
Westward Expansion
Civil War
100
The name given to the path Native Americans were forced to take from their ancestral homelands to reservations.
Trail of Tears
100
The island where Hamilton was born.
Nevis
100
The Native American woman who has been made into a Disney movie that fictionalized her life.
Pocahontas
100
The term used to describe America's divine right to expand.
Manifest Destiny
100
The President when the Civil War started
Lincoln
200
What French leader did Thomas Jefferson purchase the Louisiana territories?
Napoleon
200
The battle that Hamilton helped to win, which effectively ended the Revolutionary War.
Yorktown
200
The man Pocahontas supposedly saved from death.
John Smith
200
President during the War with Mexico.
Polk
200
The name given to the Southern States that broke off from the Union after Lincoln's election.
Confederacy
300
The site of the famous conflict that, although America lost, was a turning point for the future of Texas annexation and the War with Mexico.
Alamo
300
The King of England during the American Revolution.
King George III
300
Between 1692-93 over 150 people were brought to trial for ________________
Witchcraft
300
Land that was annexed in 1845.
Texas
300
This famous compromise allowed California to be a free state by also contained the Fugitive Slave Act.
Compromise of 1850
400
The name of the group that resorted to cannibalism when they took a false shortcut on their way to California.
Donner Party
400
During the Constitutional Convention, Hamilton supported what kind of federal government?
strong, centralized
400
This group broke off from the Church of England because they wanted to "purify" it.
Puritans
400
When this state was admitted in 1850 it was a free state.
California
400
The abolitionist who was hung for starting a violent slave revolt.
John Brown
500
The name of the Native American girl who is credited with Lewis and Clark's survival.
Sacagawea
500
The name of the essays he wrote with John Jay and James Madison.
The Federalist Papers
500
When there is no separation between church and state it is called a _________.
Theocracy
500
The last piece of land acquired by America after the Mexican American War was part of the _________.
Gadsen Purchase
500
The site of the first battle of the Civil War.
Fort Sumter