Who invented the reaping machine?
Cyrus McCormick
What year was the California Gold Rush?
1849
Who founded Tuskegee Institute?
Booker T. Washington
What year did the Pilgrims land at New Plymouth?
1620
What revived trade in the East?
crusades
Who is remembered as the Angel of the Battlefield?
Clara Barton
What year was the Louisiana Purchase made?
1803
Who was the best-known evangelist of the Second Great Awakening?
Charles Finney
What year was the Stamp Act Congress?
1765
What was the most decisive battle of the Civil War?
Gettysburg
Who is the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What year did the Civil War end?
1865
Who was the Union general that led the Peninsula Campaign?
George B. McClellan
What year was the Treaty of Paris signed?
1783
What battle was a major turning point of the War for Independence?
Saratoga
Who was the president of the Confederate States of America?
Jefferson Davis
What year was the Emancipation Proclamation?
1863
Who negotiated the purchase that completely settled the southern border of the United States?
James Gadsden
What year was the Constitutional Convention?
1787
What was the half-million square miles of land granted to the United States by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Mexican Cession
Who was the Union general that led the March to the Sea from Atlanta?
William Tecumseh Sherman
What year was the Missouri Compromise?
1820
Who led a raid at Harper's Ferry?
John Brown
What year was the Webster-Ashburton Treaty signed?
1842
Which amendment outlawed slavery in the United States?
Thirteenth