Inventions
What invention revolutionized message sending?
The Telegram
What reform movement called for the ban of slavery.
Abolition
What city was captured during the Mexican-American war?
Mexico City
Was North of the line that seperated the states free or slave?
Free
What is the infamous state that Voss accidentally answered?
North Nebraska
What invention was powered by water and spun thread?
The Water Frame
What was the reform movement that banned the sale of alcohol.
Prohibition.
What was river acted as a boundary for the Mexican- American War?
The Rio Grande
What politician won over Stephen Douglas becuase of looks and height?
Abraham Lincoln
Who brought in the sheep stuffed animal for the holocaust story and left it in the classroom?
Trick Question: No one knows
Who perfected the iron plow?
John Deere
What important figure in the prohibition movement used an axe to intimidate people.
Carry Nation
Which explorer brought a journal with him when he explored the new territory of the US and wrote and documented plants and animals?
Meriwether Lewis
What politician led the popular sovereignty movement?
Stephen A. Douglas
What religion made it so someone can have an unlimited amount of wives?
The Mormon religion.
What did the cotton gin do?
It was designed to quickly separate cotton fibers from their seeds.
What political party supported abolition?
Republican
What treaty ended the Mexican-American War?
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Where was the line of latitude that was ment to split the free and slave states?
36˚, 30˚ line.
Who in the photo was the person that his shot backfired on him?
Moe from the Simpsons
What invention is commonly found in weapons?
Interchangeable Parts
What is a movement that wanted to live above material possessions.
Transcendentalism
What town did the Santa Fe and Oregon trail start in.
Independance, Missouri
What did the Kansas Nebraska Act do?
It organized two new territories, Kansas and Nebraska, and established the principle of popular sovereignty within them.
What was the nickname that Voss called Ryan after he thought it was his middle name.
Ricky