War of 1812
When American sailors were taken from ships and forced to work for the British in their war against the French.
Impressment
The small town where earthquakes took place in 1811 and 1812.
New Madrid
This was the battle cry of the Texas forces after the Alamo, it rallied the men to victory in the Mexican American War.
"Remember the Alamo"
This was a secret network of abolitionist who helped slaves escape North to freedom.
Underground Railroad
Reconstruction
American Congressmen who pushed for war with Britain.
Scientist used eyewitness accounts to measure the earthquakes because in 1812 they did not have this tool for measuring earthquakes.
Richter Scale
This man is a Tennessee war hero who led the Texan army against Mexico.
Sam Houston
Many people say the Civil War was about "states rights" but it was mostly about the states rights about this issue.
Slavery
This Tennessean became President after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Andrew Johnson
At the Battle of Fort Henry this man famously wrote our Star Spangled Banner.
Francis Scott Key
Quartz crystals being squeezed within the earth.
This man, a former politician, volunteered to fight in the war and refused to abandon the Alamo he died there with the other 150 men.
David "Davy" Crockett
The first battle of the Civil War was fought at...
Fort Sumter, South Carolina
This form of farming became popular in the south during reconstruction. It kept slaves and poor white people from making to much money and getting an education.
Sharecropping
These were the two sides in the War of 1912.
British vs. the Americans and French
This lake was created due to the Mississippi River flowing backward
Reel Foote Lake
Mexico feared that Americans would take over their land, like they did the Indian land. Due to that fear Mexico passed laws limiting this.
New settlement and Immigration from Americans.
This woman had a colony called Free Hill to see if freed slaves and white people could live together in harmony.
This amendment granted equal citizenship and rights to African Americans.
14th Amendment
General Andrew Jackson became a famous hero because of a Battle fought in this city.
New Orleans
How did historians know that the quakes shook the ground as far as South Carolina?
Mexico
This order from President Abraham Lincoln freed slaves in 1683.
Emancipation Proclamation
This amendment protected the poor whites and African American's right to vote.
15th Amendment