Anti-Slavery
This physician who served in the American Revolution became a leading abolitionist.
Benjamin Rush
Daily Triple!
This book by Harriet Beecher Stowe detailed some of the abuses of slavery.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
In the 1850's & 60's, most of the Chinese coming to California were seeking work in this vocation.
Railroad Construction
This is the Constitutional amendment that made the Emancipation Proclamation permanent and country-wide.
13th
This president, in 1860, new that states would begin seceding but did nothing.
Buchanan
This lady was born into slaver in New York. She became a leader in the Temperance Movement, Abolitionist Movement and an advocate for women's rights.
Sojourner Truth
During the 1830's, these ladies became the first to serve as anti-slavery agents.
Angelina and Sara Grimke
The Mexicans lost their war with the U. S. after loosing control of this city.
Mexico City
This 1870 Constitutional amendment was focused on providing freed African-American men with the right to vote.
15th
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Indian Territory once included most of the land that was later the states of Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma. By 1900, Native Americans only had part of ____________ (one of those three).
Oklahoma
He was an escaped slave who became a famous abolitionist leader. His sons were Union soldiers.
Frederick Douglass
This man won the presidential election of 1860. After the Battle of Antietam, he signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
Abraham Lincoln
This was the reason that so many Irish left their home country in the 1840's.
Famine (the Irish Potato Famine)
This man was the president of the Confederacy.
Jefferson Davis
The land which became the state of Arkansas was bought by the U. S. as part of the ________________Purchase.
Louisiana
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This secret group helped enslaved people in the border states escape to freedom.
the Underground Railroad
This president provoked the Mexican-American War.
James K. Polk
Half the Germans who came to the U. S. in the mid-1800's pursued this occupation.
Farming
Elizabeth Cady Stanton is known for her work in this movement.
Women's Suffrage (or Women's rights)
Daily double!
This war resulted in California becoming part of the United States.
Mexican-American War
This senator and radical Republican demanded an end to slavery and was beaten on the Senate floor.
Charles Sumner
The Seneca Falls Convention opposed slavery and supported rights for ________________.
Women
When the Cherokee were forced to leave on the "Trail of Tears", this is where they were forced to settle.
Oklahoma Territory
The deadliest day of the Civil War was this 1862 battle which killed or wounded 22,7000 (including Mr. Burnette's ancestor).
Battle of Antietam
This state is named for a French king and has many people of French descent.
Louisiana