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What was the name of the Father of the American Factory System?
Samuel Slater
Samuel Morse
Robert Fulton
John Deere
What was the 1,300-mile-long route from Illinois to Utah that members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints traveled for 3 months?
Oregon Trail
California Trail
Santa Fe Trail
Mormon Trail
Which State tried to nullify the Tariff of 1828?
Missouri
Georgia
Oklahoma
South Carolina
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Which State tried to nullify the Tariff of 1828?
Missouri
Georgia
Oklahoma
South Carolina
What was the name of the 2nd leg of the Triangular Trade, in which the slaves traveled over 2000 miles to North America?
Trail of Tears
Interstate Commerce
Middle Passage
Indian Spice Trade
What law will cause the events of Bleeding Kansas?
Indian Removal Act of 1830
Kansas Nebraska Act
Chinese Exclusion Act
Fugitive Slave Act
What is agreement called when the U.S. paid Mexico $10 million for southern parts of NM and AZ?
Treaty of New Echota
Louisiana Purchase
Gadsden Purchase
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Which of the following had the GREATEST impact on the growth of cities in the late 1800s?
The onset of the Spanish-American War
The success of the Harlem Renaissance
The introduction of the automobile
The expansion of industry
What was the name of the journey when Africans were shipped as slaves to N. America?
Columbian Exchange
Trail of Tears
Oregon Trail
Middle Passage
What event occurred in 1838-1839 when the US government forced the Cherokee off of their land in GA?
Underground Railroad
Comstock Lode
Trail of Tears
Oregon Trail
Why did the urbanization of the NorthEastern area of the US happen?
Gold Rush
Cattle Industry was flourishing
Giving away land to farmers
Growth of Factories
Which one of the following were NOT a reason for the Industrial Revolution starting in Great Britian/ England?
The abundance of Natural Resources
Time Zone Changes
Navigable Waterways
The abundance of Labor/Workers
What the purchase of present-day CA, NV, and UT from Mexico was paid $15 Million called in 1848?
Mexican Cession
Compromise of 1820
Louisiana Purchase
Gadsden Purchase
What were the "safe houses" called along the Underground Railroad?
Conductor
Station
Speakeasies
Caboose
What a town called that has undergone rapid growth due to sudden prosperity?
Boomtown
Ruralization
Ghost town
Big Apple
What was the phrase that President Polk used to campaign for the highest possible northmost border of Oregeon Territory but he compromised with the British and settled with the 49th Parallel?
Oregon or Bust!
Remember the Alamo!
Know Nothing!
Fifty-four forty or fight!
What term is defined as an increase in population that causes towns to transform into cities?
Annexation
Urbanization
Nullification
Ratification
What was the name of the journey from Europe to Africa, Africa to N. America, N. A to Europe called?
Columbian Exhange
Triangular Trade
Trail of Tears
Underground Railroad
What was the name of the book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe which exposed the cruelties and inhumanity of the slave system?
Fugitive Slave Law
Uncle Tom's cabin
Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice and Men
What was the name of the journey pioneered in 1821 that allowed Americans to trade with Mexicans?
Oregon Trail
California Trail
Santa Fe Trail
Trail of Tears
What was the name of the event that started in 1838, because of the passage of the Indian Removal Act?
Mexican American War
Trail of Tears
Middle Passage
Indian Spice Trade
What was the name of the 2,000 mile trip that pioneers took from Independence, Missouri to Portland?
Triangular Trade
Oregon Trail
Trail of Tears
Santa Fe Trail
Which one of the following were NOT one of the 5 Civilized Native American tribes living in the SouthEastern part of the US?
Creek
Cherokee
Seminole
Sioux
What is the current southernmost border of Texas that President Polk was willing to fight the Mexican American War over in 1845?
Nueces River
Gila River
Rio Colorado
Rio Grande
What term is defined as a concept in which states could void any federal law they deemed unconstitutional.
Ratification
Nullification
Annexation
Popular Sovereignty
What was the agreement that allowed California to become a state?
Mexican Cession
Gadsden Purchase
Compromise of 1820
Compromise of 1850
What law was passed which allowed slaves to be returned back to slavery if they have been found in Free Sates?
Tariff of 1828
Fugitive Slave Act
Compromise of 1820
Compromise of 1850
What was the name of the law that limited the number of immigrants from China coming into the US in 1882?
Chinese Exclusion Act
Chinese Quota Act
Americans Only Act
Opium Avoidance Act
what was the battle fought in the war for texan Independence on April 21, 1836, making Texas its' own country/Republic?
Battle of San Jacinto
First Battle of Tabasco
Battle of Veracruz
Battle of the Sacramento River
What's the name of the law that forced Native Americans out of the SouthEast & move to Indian Territory (OK) in 1830?
Tariff of 1828
Indian Removal Act
Treaty of New Echota
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
What was the Supreme Court case called in which they ruled that Native American tribes were sovereign states and could make decisions for themselves, this included the Cherokee?
Dred Scott v. Sanford, 1857
Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824
Mcculloch v. Maryland, 1819
Worcester V. Georgia, 1831
What country did Texas win their independence from in 1836?
Spain
mexico
france
canada
What was the name of the event when miners came from all over and different nationalities in 1849?
Gold Rush
California Trail
Underground Railroad
Trail of Tears
What was the name of the war (1846-1848) that was fought because the US wanted the Rio Grande to be the southernmost boarder of the newly annexed state in 1845?
War for Texan Independence
American Revolutionary War
War of 1812
Mexican American War
What was the battle cry of the War for Texan Independence?
Oregon or Bust!
Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!
Remember the Alamo!
Indians will survive
When Maine was admitted as a free state through the Compromise of 1820, what was the 11th slave state admitted to the Union to help keep the balance between free and slave states?
Missouri
Maine
Massachusetts
Mississippi
After which war was Mexico forced to agree to the Mexican Cession?
Spanish-American War
Mexican American War
War for Texan Independence (Tex-Mex War)
The Annexation of Texas
What was the name of the religious group that followed Joseph Smith (after Bringham Young died), from Illinois to Utah to escape religious persecution?
Christians
Hebrews
Muslims
Mormans
What was the name of the painting that depicted Manifest Destiny and the recent advancements in communication and transportation?
American West
American Progress
Trail of Tears
Cowboys and Indians
In the Compromise of 1820, the state of Maine was accepted as ______ state?
Industrial
Free
Slave
Minning
What event occurred in 1849, which urbanized California so quickly that it became a state the next year in 1850?
Mexican- American War
Comstock Lode
Gadsden Purchase
CA Gold Rush
Who invented the telegram and created a code that was used to decipher the messages sent over the telegram?
Alexander Graham Bell
John Deere
Samuel Morse
Eli Whitney
What was the name of the network/journey that runaway slaves used to escape to Canada?
Trail of Tears
Comstock lode
Underground Railroad
Nat Turner Rebellion
What was the latitudinal degree of the Mason Dixon line that divided the Free States from the Slave States in the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
54°40′
36°30′
32°28′
49°10′
What was the name of the most famous conductor whom others have referred to as Moses?
Fredrick Douglass
William Still
Lucreitta Mott
Harriet Tubman
