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Miscellaneous
Westward Expansion
Miscellaneous 2
Compromise to Conflict
The Civil War
100
This woman's letters to her husband began to spread the word about increasing women's rights in the United States.
Who is Abigail Adams?
100
This is the belief that the United States was destined to expand across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
100
The settlers of Jamestown saved their colony by planting this crop.
What is tobacco?
100
This invention made cotton king in the south and increased its need for more land.
What is the cotton gin?
100
The Civil War was fought between the North and South, also known as the _________ and ____________.
What is Union and Confederacy.
200
The Hessians' main motivation for fighting in the American Revolution was _________.
What is money?
200
The desire for westward expansion, rise in cotton production, and the Indian Removal Act resulted in the...
What is Trail of Tears?
200
_____________ is the theory that a nation's power depends on expanding its trade.
What is mercantilism?
200
The admission of Missouri as a _______ state was controversial because it would upset the balance of slave and free states.
What is slave state?
200
The first shots of the Civil War were fired in __________.
What is Ft. Sumter.
300
General Washington's troop endured a long, miserable winter in _________ ________ during the Revolutionary War.
What is Valley Forge?
300
This is the president responsible for the Indian Removal Act.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
300
The __________ ___________refers to the part of triangular trade where Africans, densely packed onto ships, were transported across the Atlantic to the West Indies.
What is the Middle Passage?
300
This slave led a rebellion against slaveholders in 1831, killing over 60 white men, women, and children.
Who is Nat Turner?
300
The Battle of _____________ Court House, fought on the morning of April 9, 1865, was one of the last battles of the American Civil War. It was the final engagement of Confederate Army general Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army under Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.
What is Appomattox?
400
This book of essays explained and supported the U.S. Constitution.
What is the Federalist Papers?
400
President Jackson opposed the Bank of the United States because he believed _________ citizens had no control over it.
What is ordinary or common?
400
The ____________ Ordinance stopped the spread of slavery to the west.
What is Northwest?
400
Stephen Douglas thought that people should decide about slavery through ____________ _____________.
What is popular sovereignty?
400
This famous speech by Abraham Lincoln mandated that all slaves in the Confederate states be freed.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
500
In the case of a conflict between state and federal laws, the __________ law takes precedence.
What is federal?
500
This motivated thousands of Americans to travel west in search of their own pocketful of rocks.
What is the California Gold Rush?
500
This type of government prefers a strong federal government, while Democratic-Republicans prefer limited government.
What is federalism?
500
The ______________ ____________was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century enslaved people of African descent in the United States in efforts to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause.
What is the Underground Railroad?
500
General ___________'s march to sea proved the Union's strength over the Confederates.
What is General Sherman?