confident, ready to expand, leading to "Era of Good Feelings"
What is what the U.S. felt about itself after the War of 1812?
100
Territory purchased by the U.S. from France in 1803 for 15 mil. (That's about Jeff's yearly salary)
What is The Louisiana Territory?
100
The freed N.Y. slave who crossed the north, much of the time on foot, speaking about rights for slaves and women.
What was Sojourner Truth?
100
He became President of the U.S. in 1828 by getting votes of many new voters (non-land owners) who could vote for the first time.
Who was Andrew Jackson?
100
The name of the mission where 187 Texans were killed by the Mexican army in 1836.
What is The Alamo?
200
A president's warning in 1823 to Europe not to go snooping around Latin America for lands and resources
What is The Monroe Doctrine?
200
The last names of the two explorers who led the 1804-1806 expedition across the continent from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean and back.
Who were Lewis and Clark?
200
Three important women's rights leaders who fought for votes for women (two of them did), equal education and jobs
Who were Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony?
200
The name of the forced marches of thousands of Native Americans between 1831 and 1838 from the Southwest U.S. to Indian Territory (later Oklahoma)
What is The Trail of Tears?
200
The river that borders the modern U.S. and Mexico i
What is The Rio Grande?
300
Francis Scott Key wrote the words to this song after witnessing the bombardment of Ft. McHenry
What is "The Star-Spangled Banner" (long may it wave!)
300
"54 40 or Fight!" changed to compromise in 1846 as the U.S. reached agreement to split the Oregon Territory with this country.
What is Britain?
300
Perhaps the best-known abolitionist in U.S. history, this escaped slave taught himself to read, started a newspaper, advised Abraham Lincoln, was an ambassador, among other honors.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
300
What was the crisis of government called when, in 1831, South Carolina refused to enforce a U.S. law increasing tariffs on imported goods?
What was The Nullification Crisis?
300
Many junior American officers who fought for the U.S. in the Mexican War became general officers in what terrible U.S. war some years later?
What is The American Civil War (1861-1865)
400
The biggest American victory came six weeks after the official end of the war.
What is The Battle of New Orleans?
400
Gold was discovered in California in 1848. What amazingly quick change occurred to California because of it?
What is California becoming a state?
400
This escaped slave returned to the South at least 13, and as many as 19 times, to free slaves and bring them to freedom. She became a U.S. Army spy during the Civil War and helped lead raids on southern positions.
What was Harriet Tubman?
400
Which state was added to The United States after the Mexican War of 1846?
What is Texas?
400
Name the most famous of "The Civilized Tribes" of the Southeastern U.S. in the early 1800s. They had their own newspaper, schools and government and many had converted to Christianity.
Who were The Cherokee?
500
The territories ceded to the United States by Spain in 1819
What are Florida and the Oregon Territory?
500
A canal linking New York City with The Great Lakes was finished in 1825. It increased shipping and migration west.
What is The Erie Canal?
500
The right to vote, educational equality, jobs and the right to inherit property.
What were demands of women and their male supporters at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848?
500
Name the territories ceded to the U.S. by Mexico in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848.
What are Texas, California, The New Mexico and and Utah territories?
500
Name the first woman to appear on a U.S. coin? (besides Lady Liberty)