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Thomas Jefferson made this purchase from France to double the size of the growing United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
100
The leader of Mexico during the Mexican-American War.
What is Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana?
100
The years of the Civil War.
What is 1861-1865?
100
The amount of land freed slaves were promised.
What is 40 acres.
100
The name of the unified southern states that seceded from the nation.
What is Confederate States of America?
200
The most "civilized" of the 5 civilized Native American tribes.
Who are the Cherokee?
200
Besides the Alamo, the Mexican army massacred Americans in this Texas location.
What is Goliad?
200
The assassin of Abraham Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
200
The percentage of the population required to pledge loyalty to the US for a state to be readmitted to the nation.
What is 10%
200
The name of the greatest soccer team in the world!
What is Manchester City?!?!
300
The belief that Americans should expand their control from "sea to shining sea."
What is Manifest Destiny?
300
The amount the US offered to pay Mexico for the territories of California and New Mexico.
What is $30 million?
300
The location that Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union forces.
What is Appomattox Court House?
300
Laws passed by Southern states that limited the new-found freedom of African Americans.
What are Black Codes?
300
The name of the painting that represented American's views of westward expansion.
What is American Progress?
400
This agent led the Old Three Hundred to settle in Texas.
Who is Stephen Austin?
400
The president that declared war on Mexico when the two countries disagreed on the border between Mexico and the United States.
Who is Polk?
400
This executive ordered granted freedom to all slaves in the states that seceded.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
400
The name for the group of politicians that severely disagreed with Andrew Johnson and were greatly upset by how reconstruction in the south was going.
Who are Radical Republicans?
400
The name of the two groups that clashed over ratification of the Constitution.
Who are the Federalists and Anti-Federalists?
500
The year the battle of the Alamo took place.
What is 1836?
500
The name of the treaty that ended the Mexican-American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
500
The first state to secede from the United States of America.
What is South Carolina?
500
The laws that forced segregation.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
500
This pamphlet greatly influenced colonists in seeking independence from Britain, and was considered the Harry Potter of it's day.
What is Common Sense?