It is 360 miles long and connected New York to the west. Thousands of Irish men built me.
What is the Erie Canal?
100
What do you know about the 4th of July?
What is celebrating the Declaration of Independence from England, or declaration written by Thomas Jefferson as a list of grievances against England, fireworks, BBQ, etc?
100
I was the 7th president of the United States. I tried to restore democracy as "government by the people". Ordinary folks came to see my inauguration in Washington DC. I was also the first president to ride on a train on the Baltimore and Ohio. My nickname is "Old Hickory."
Who is Andrew Jackson?
100
The name of the revolution that happened in early 19th century America, making the country use technologies like the cotton gin, steam engines, interchangeable guns, factory looms, propelling the nation to higher economic growth.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
100
The date of the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
What is July 4, 1826?
200
The state where Seminole Indians lived. Creek Indians such as Osceola moved here after the Indian Civil War between Red and White Sticks. When Osceola grew up, he lead attacks against settlers and soldiers from swamps.
What is Florida?
200
List one or several ways Jackson differed from the previous presidents.
What is he was from the West, had little formal education, youth during the Revolution, leader of the common people, not an aristocrat nor wealthy.
200
Created the Cherokee's 86 alphabets. He also published the first Indian newspaper.
Who is Sequoyah?
200
Steam train engines were also called this.
What is the iron horse?
200
The name of the event when the Choctaws, Chicksaws, Creeks, and Cherokees were forced to march in rain, cold, snow, heat to an Indian Reservations in present-day Kansas and Oklahoma region.
What is the Trail of Tears? Or Indian Removal Act.
300
Name one of the southern states where cotton grew?
What is Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana, Alabama?
300
Remember Worcester? A white, christian minister who wanted to do missionary work in Georgia, but did't have a license to do so. What was Justice John Marshall's position in Worcester v. Georgia?
What is Marshall argues that the Cherokee nation was a distinct community and the laws of the state of Georgia had no authority over it? Or that Worcester can preach there because the Cherokee nation has the right to allow/not allow him to do so.
300
Black slave who escaped to freedom. He became an eloquent speaker for the Massachusetts Abolitionist Society, champion of human rights for all races, Blacks, Chinese.
Who is Frederick Douglas?
300
The new King of the South after the gin was invented.
What is King Cotton?
300
The year Robert Carter III emancipated his slaves (500 of them).
What is 1791
400
Robert Carter III lived in this hall in Virginia.
What is Nomini Hall?
400
Do you remember what a talking leaves is?
What is Indian newspaper?
400
Senator from South Carolina. An eloquent speaker who loved slavery and even thought it was good. He loved the South more than the Union.
What is Calhoun?
400
A moving jail of slaves fastened together with chains.
What is a coffle?
400
The date the slave trade ended.
What is January 1, 1808
500
Name one of the states in the old south?
What is Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, Georgia, or Delaware?
500
Why did plantation owners separate black families from each other at auction?
What is blacks were considered cattle, and or they have become a way of making money in the south especially after the ending of Slave Trade in 1808, when no new slaves can enter the US to be sold there.
500
Born in New England, a heroic figure of a man, sturdy with dark hair, flashing eyes, "godlike Daniel",was interested in protecting factory owners, bankers, and ship owners. He hated slavery and protected the Union.