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100
This actor and Confederate sympathizer assassinated Abraham Lincoln
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
100
This religious revival emerged circa 1795 and lasted until the 1830s
What is the Second Great Awakening?
100
Britain and the U.S. agreed to jointly settle this territory
What is Oregon?
100
The Romantic movement emphasized this over reason
What is emotion?
100
White southerners implemented these in the first few years after the Civil War to maintain previous societal structure
What are black codes?
200
This act abolished the slave trade in Washington, D.C.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
200
This man saw a vision from the angel Moroni that led to the creation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Who is Joseph Smith?
200
The term applied to the idea that it was predetermined that the U.S. would stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific coasts?
What is manifest destiny?
200
This was the key motivation for prison reform in the nineteenth century
What is rehabilitation?
200
After the Civil War, the women’s rights movement split over this issue
What is suffrage?
300
Reconstruction officially ended when this president, as a part of the Compromise of 1877, removed federal troops from the South
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
300
The belief that Jesus Christ would return to Earth after an extensive period of peace
What is postmillenialism?
300
This Native American tribe greatly hindered Spanish and then Mexican settlement of Texas
Who are the Comanche?
300
This woman spearheaded the reform of insane asylums
What is Dorothea Lynde Dix?
300
This author lived on Walden Pond and wrote “Civil Disobedience"
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
400
The term used for Northern Democrats who were pro-Confederacy and secession
What is "Copperhead"?
400
This movement led to the creation of the Disciples of Christ, the Churches of Christ, and the Independent Christian Church?
What is the Restoration Movement (or Stone-Campbell Movement)?
400
The annexation of Texas into the United States happened during this president’s term
Who is James K. Polk?
400
This utopian community practiced "complex marriage"
What is the Oneida community?
400
This event is considered to be the beginning of First Wave Feminism
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
500
This piece of legislation suggested that slavery be allowed in Texas, but not the rest of the territory gained from Mexico
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
500
The area of Upstate New York that experienced a level or religious revivals and conversions
What is the Burned-Over District?
500
This American led 300 families to settle in Texas
Who is Stephen F. Austin?
500
This was the first distinctly American school of painting
What is the Hudson River School?
500
Abraham Lincoln suspended this right during the Civil War
What is habeas corpus?