This organization was started in 1865 to help

formerly enslaved people adjust to freedom?

General Winfield Scott took over this major Mexican city

"We are creeping along slowly, one wagon after another, the same old gait,

the same thing over, out of one mud hole into another all day"

What emotion does this quotation, from a traveler on the Oregon Trail, show.

How did the Texans fair at the battle of the Alamo?

These actually fed families during the Great Depression

Which program helped to control flooding,

bring electricity to rural areas, and finished the Hoover Dam

Who was John Wilkes Booth

These communities of houses built from scrap

during the Great Depression earned a notorious name

According to early child labor laws, how old did a child

have to be to work in a factory

Who created the first ever hydro electric dam, air brakes, and

numerous other inventions we use today

This book was made to show the horrors of the slave trade and

was very influential before the Civil War

Who was the Republican candidate in the 1860 election

Introduced in the 1828 presidential election,

what became a permanent part of American political life

The Confederates fired on Fort Sumter because

This act was the trigger for WWI

The Duryea family invented this now very common item

Which of these established schools for freed African Americans

Under whose presidential administration was

the United Stated at war with Mexico?

The invention of the cotton gin by this man created a "boom" in slavery

Which word means “an intense loyalty to a country or group”

What did railroad barons form based on secret agreements

to divide up business amongst themselves

Which group used threats and violence to intimidate freed African Americans

Where did most immigrants settle in the US in the early 1800s

What was the name of the nation given to the states that left the Union

The Bessemer Process created this new kind of metal

The only Americans allowed to vote in 1824 and 1828 were

Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, an influential book about slaves

Who created the first successful moving assembly line

Which inventor's most important invention was the electric lightbulb

Workers upset about their working conditions formed these groups to fight back

Which of these took away the power of a president

to remove government officials

Which New Deal program took young single

men and had them build national parks

What did new means of transportation give the average American

Which law was intended to allow the president to

use the United States military to enforce federal law

Oregon Country was which direction from California

Which of these was an alternative to President Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan

This famous philanthropist built numerous buildings and libraries

that still exist in Pittsburgh today

This former slave worked on the Underground Railroad

to get other slaves out of the South

Which state first seceded from the Union

An escape route mainly to Canada

During whose presidency was the Indian Removal Act passed?

The first ever message on this invention was "what hath God wrought?"

Northern Republicans who moved to the South during Reconstruction were called

How did Mountain Men make their living

Winning candidates who give government jobs to

their supporters are making use of which of the following

Which country was at the Treaty of Versailles, but not taken seriously

What was the largest single migration in American history

Bombardment of this location began the Civil War

After consolidation of the railroads, who controlled the nation’s rail traffic

Based on the map, Florida and Alabama were in which military reconstruction district

According to the map, which of the following states was not supplied with power by the Tennessee Valley Authority

This was the most northern slave state

Which Civil War general won the presidential election of 1868

As indicated in this quotation, what was a frequent problem that pioneers faced along the Oregon Trail

Which of these would be the best title for this diagram

Whom did Texas choose as their president after

they won independence from Mexico

Compromise allowing popular sovereignty in the territories

According to the map, which of these states had yet

to be readmitted to the Union in 1868

According to the map, which state was the first to be readmitted

The new political party that was formed in 1854 was the

The Confederate States of America chose as its first president

Which president persuaded Congress to create

an independent national treasury in 1840

This former slave became so prominent they meant with Lincoln in the White House

The state that was literally split in two by the Civil War was

The 1866 Congressional elections marked the beginning of a period known as

Which of these grants U.S. citizenship to anyone born in the United States

What did President James K. Polk use as grounds for declaring war against Mexico

According to the graphs, which of the four crops shown did not reach its peak production level in 1890

Discoveries made in 1849 in California more than doubled

the world's supply of which item

"[This election is a contest] between an honest patriotism on the one side,

and an unholy selfish ambition, on the other"

These words, placed on a handbill during the 1828

presidential campaign, are an example of

What crops were produced in the South

Which of these is an arrangement in which farmers

give a share of their crops to landowners

Which of these is NOT a main reason for WWI

Which titan of industry made his money from the oil industry

Which Act did Congress pass to force the relocation of Native Americans

Florida could not become a state until which of the following happened

In 1857 the Supreme Court decided a very important case

regarding slavery and involving

President Jackson believed that the Bank of the United States

Who came to the meeting of mountain men described in the excerpt

Who was the first vice president to become president after

William Henry Harrison died

What is it called when unions represent workers in talking to management

Germany began unrestricted naval warfare with this vessel

What was the period of rebuilding the South after the Civil War called

About 400,000 Dust Bowl farmers migrated to which state

I invented the earliest telephone and told Watson

to come quickly because I spilled acid on my pants

Who captured John Brown at Harper's Ferry, VA

What are people called who start businesses

This way of thinking said that God wanted the United States

to control all land from the Atlantic to the Pacific

Idea that was strongly supported in the North, but hated in the South

What was Thomas Edison's most important invention

As more and more people sold stock in September 1929,

what happened to stock prices

This caused a growth in the use of railroads and made them more efficient

Gaining almost total control of an industry is called

Southern whites who supported the Republican party

Which new business technique referred to in this passage lowered manufacturing costs and also prices of products