The Erie ________ was one of the most famous examples of this man made transportation system.
What is canal.
100
This piece of land was purchased by Thomas Jefferson from France in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Purchase.
100
This movement wanted to get equal rights for women.
What is the women's rights movement?
100
The first shots of the Civil War were fired at
What is Fort Sumter, South Carolina?
100
This amendment gives citizens freedom of speech.
What is the First Amendment?
200
The production of this transportation method increased dramatically in the North between 1840 and 1860 so that factory owners could ship their goods quickly and inexpensively.
What are railroads.
200
This is the term first used by John O'Sullivan in 1844 that said that Americans were given the right by God to spread from sea to shining sea.
What is Manifest Destiny
200
This movement wanted to end or get rid of slavery.
What is the abolition movement?
200
Lincoln's primary objective in the Civil War was to...
What is preserve the Union?
200
This amendment ended slavery.
What is the thirteenth amendment?
300
This method of transportation helped settlers get west the quickest.
What is a train or on a railroad.
300
This group of people was often pushed from their land by settlers as well as the U.S. government.
Who are the Native Americans?
300
Complete the following line from the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments. "We hold these truths to be self-evident that...
What is "all men and women are created equal."
300
Each state had the right to make treaties and wage war, according to South Carolina, which was the first state to...
What is secede?
300
This amendment made all those who were born in the United States citizens of the United States with due process of the law and equal protection of those laws.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
400
Many families left for the west with their families in this method of transportation, where wheels often broke and the roof often leaked.
What is a covered wagon.
400
A precious metal found in the American River caused this to occur in 1849.
What is the California Gold Rush?
400
Which two social movements was Frederick Douglass a part of...
What are the women's rights and the abolition movement?
400
This document freed the slaves (in theory) in the rebelling states
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
400
This amendment provided for universal male suffrage. (All men-including black men can now vote)
What is the 15th amendment?
500
Lincoln got to Gettysburg from DC on this mode of transportation, on which he pondered his famous Gettysburg Address
What is a train.
500
This compromise temporarily settled the issue of slavery in the West, allowing all states above the 36'30" line to be admitted as free states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
500
John Brown raided this town's federal arsenal. HINT: Mr. Weingarten went their with his cousin (YES-THE FIREFIGHTER) over spring break.
What is Harper's Ferry, West Virginia?
500
The bloodiest single day in American history occurred when 23,000 people died at...
What is the Battle of Antietam?
500
This amendment protects soldiers from living in your house or the police from unreasonable searching your things without a warrant.