The belief behind building the Transcontinental Railroad.
What is Manifest Destiny?
100
The first president of the USA.
Who is George Washington?
100
The location of the witch trials.
What is Salem, Massachusetts?
100
The war fighting for America's independence from Britain.
What is the Revolutionary War?
100
This agreement meant California was a free state, but fugitive slave laws were stricter.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
200
One of the presidents in office during construction of the Transcontinental Railroad.
Who was either Lincoln, Johnson, or Grant?
200
The president who delivered the Emancipation Proclamation, not actually freeing the slaves.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
The British government did this when America was still their colony, leading to higher political independence and an American thirst for self-government.
What is salutary neglect?
200
The first shots of the Revolutionary War were fired here.
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
200
The idea that the citizens of a place can decide how to rule it; when this was implemented in Kansas, it caused a large crowd to move in so their votes counted.
What is popular sovereignty?
300
One of the two companies that helped build the Transcontinental Railroad.
What is either the Central Pacific or Union Pacific?
300
The president that got stuck in his bathtub.
Who is Taft?
300
The author of Common Sense.
Who is Thomas Paine?
300
The man credited for writing the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
300
This speech did not free any slaves, contrary to popular belief.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
400
How long it took to build the Transcontinental Railroad.
What is six years?
400
The president who threatened to use the military to enforce his ideas against the judgement of Congress.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
400
The movement of using reason and research to study all aspects of life.
What is the Enlightenment?
400
The Revolutionary War broke this alliance with a group of Amerindians.
What is the Iroquois Confederation?
400
The Civil War began here.
What is Fort Sumter?
500
Where the Transcontinental Railroad merged with the existing eastern railroad routes.
What is Nebraska?
500
The president who cut off international trade through the Embargo Act?
Who is Jefferson?
500
Children of non-saints could be baptized, but not take part in communion or any other sacraments.
What is the Halfway Covenant?
500
This document was written by John Dickenson as a last ditch attempt at making peace with Britain in order to avoid war.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
500
One of the two advantages the South had over the North in the Civil War
What is either cotton supply or fighting on their own land?