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WorksheetsEarly 1800s NC and US
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 12mins
Napoleon Bonaparte sold WHAT TERRITORY to the United States in 1803?
Canada
Louisiana
California
Quebec
In 1804, who led the famous expedition to explore and map the newly-added western United States?
Orville and Wilbur Wright
Amundsen and Livingston
DeSoto and Verrazano
Lewis and Clark
Shawnee chief and warrior who led resistance efforts against U.S. westward expansion
Sequoyah
Tippecanoe
Tecumseh
Geronimo
War in which British troops invaded the United States and burned the Capitol
War for Independence
War of 1812
Civil War
Spanish American War
Who wrote "the Star Spangled Banner"?
Francis Scott Key
Harriet Beecher Stowe
William Hartmann
Abraham McHenry
Characterized by the growth of factories and new technologies
American Revolution
French Revolution
Industrial Revolution
Haitian Revolution
Built the Prometheus, the first steamboat in North Carolina
David Walker
George Moses Horton
Abraham Galloway
Otway Burns
The site of the first documented gold find in the United States
North Carolina
California
Nevada
Colorado
Born in North Carolina, moved to Boston, known for his "Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World"
Andrew Johnson
Abraham Galloway
Thomas Paine
David Walker
1. Admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state, Maine as a free state
2. Banned slavery above a certain line of latitude
3. States in the future would be admitted in pairs, one slave and one free
Compromise of 1850
Missouri Compromise
Great Compromise
Maine Compromise
Policy of a U.S. president that said the Americas were off limits to future European colonization
Truman Doctrine
Manifest Destiny
Monroe Doctrine
The New Deal
Name given to the forced removal of Native Americans to western lands
Trail of Tears
Oregon Trail
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Appalachian Trail
The belief that the United States' expansion across the continent was approved by God
Expansionism
Checks and Balances
Popular Sovereignty
Manifest Destiny
This southern state declared independence from Mexico and formed its own country for several years
New Mexico
Texas
Arizona
Utah
Woman who escaped slavery, worked for abolition and women's rights, and was known for her "Ain't I a Woman?" speech
Harriet Jacobs
Harriet Tubman
Eleanor Roosevelt
Sojourner Truth
War in which the United States gained territory, ended with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
War of Mexican Independence
Spanish American War
Mexican American War
War of 1812
Nickname given to North Carolina in the early 1800s: The __________ state
Education
Rip Van Winkle
Industrial
Christmas Tree
African American enslaved man who sold his poems in Chapel Hill in order to purchase his freedom
David Walker
Abraham Galloway
George Moses Horton
Nat Turner
Network of people, houses, and routes that helped enslaved people travel to freedom
Underground Railroad
Race to Freedom
Freedom Trail
Oregon Trail
Enslaved Muslim man who lived in North Carolina and wrote his autobiography in Arabic (the only known Arabic autobiography of a slave in America)
Omar ibn Said
Muhammed Rahimi
Ari Nasser
Ahmed Bahara
Developed a written Cherokee alphabet
Standing Rock
Sitting Bull
Tecumseh
Sequoyah
Enslaved woman from North Carolina who wrote "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl"
Harriet Knox
Harriet Turner
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Jacobs
North Carolina changed its state constutution in 1835 so that ______________ could no longer vote
women
free blacks
enslaved blacks
poor people
