Mexico City is built upon the remains of what ancient Aztec city?

What Portuguese leader is considered the “Father of the African slave trade”?

Who am I?  My mission to find a westward route to Asia was funded by the King and Queen of Spain.

Who am I? I conquered the Aztecs at Mexico City.

What three crops native to the New World were known as the “Three Sisters”?

Which Native American group of North America organized a defensive alliance?  

What Spanish priest saw the encomienda system as inhumane and advocated for the rights of Native Americans?

Also known as the “Lost Colony,” which failed English settlement was the first attempt at a permanent settlement in North America?

Who established the colony at Jamestown?

Who am I? I introduced tobacco to the Virginia colony.

What program gave parcels of land to settlers who paid their way to Virginia?

Who am I?  I founded my “City upon a Hill” at Boston and pursued religious freedom.

Who am I? John Winthrop and his Puritan court banished me to Rhode Island for opposing his views.

Who am I?  I established the Pennsylvania colony as a place for religious freedom in America.

What term refers to the idea that the colonies exist to support the mother country?

Who am I? I led an armed rebellion against Governor Berkeley and the wealthy planters.

What was the name of the indigenous uprising against the Catholic Spanish mission system in 1680?  (Long live the Corn Mothers!)

What term refers to the intellectual movement in Europe that emphasized reason and individualism?

What term refers to the revival movement that emphasized individualism and rejuvenated passion for religion?

A series of hearings were held in 1692 for those people accused of witchcraft.  Name the city AND the colony.

What term refers to the three-legged trade route between Europe, Africa, and North America?

What term refers to the horrific trans-Atlantic journey made by enslaved Africans to North America?

What term refers to British lack of enforcement of laws in the colonies?

Who am I?  I was the King of England during the American Revolution.

Name the failed plan to create a unified government for the thirteen colonies in 1754—decades BEFORE the American Revolution.

Name the British order that prohibited the American colonists from settling wet of the Appalachian Mountains.

Name the act that directly taxed newspapers and printed materials in the colonies.

Name the secret organization formed to fight taxation by the British crown during the Revolutionary period.

Name the act that declared the British Parliament’s authority to tax the colonies.

Name the series of acts intended to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party.

Called the “Shots heard ‘round the world,” these two towns hosted the first military conflicts of the American Revolution.

Which battle was considered the turning point of the American Revolution?

What is the term for the final attempt to avoid war by pledging loyalty to the King George?

What term refers to the group of men who drafted the Declaration of Independence?

What battle resulted in a surrender by General Cornwallis and ended the war?

Who am I?  I led a violent rebellion in Massachusetts that led many to support the creation of a stronger federal government.

What act outlawed slavery in the western territories and established a method for admitting new states to the Union?

What proposal for the new U.S. Constitution, drafted by James Madison, suggested three branches of government with representation decided by population?

What proposal for the new U.S. Constitution gave each state equal representation in government?

What term refers to the agreement reached between large and small states that ultimately framed the U.S. Constitution?

What term refers to the agreement reached at the Constitutional Convention on how to count the slave population when determining representation?

What term refers to a series of essays anonymously written to raise support for the U.S. Constitution?

What bill established the federal courts below the Supreme Court and protocol for appointing justices?

What name is given to the tax protest of 1791 that required support of U.S. military forces? 

What term is given to documents issued from two states in 1798 opposing the Alien and Sedition Acts?

Who appointed the “midnight judges”?

Who am I?  I devised the American System.

What was the name for the plan for federal support of internal improvements, a strong tariff and a national bank?

Who destroyed the Second Bank of the U.S.?

What nickname was given to the Tariff of 1828 by supporters of nullification in South Carolina? 

What was the name for the law which required Native Americans to move to present-day Oklahoma?

This theory was reintroduced by John C. Calhoun during his protest of federal tariffs.

What was the name for Jackson’s patronage system in which he rewarded his supporters with government jobs?

What’s the name for the agricultural region that stretched from Georgia to Louisiana?

Who am I?  I invented the cotton gin.

Which court case established the Supreme Court’s power of judicial review?

Which election did Andrew Jackson term the “corrupt bargain”?

What term refers to Thomas Jefferson’s acquisition of land from Napoleon?

What were the FULL NAMES of the two men who led an expedition to explore the territory of the Louisiana Purchase?

What waterway connected the Hudson River to Lake Erie and allowed trade to flow between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean?

What was the name for the meeting in which Federalist delegates discussed possible secession if the War of 1812 did not end quickly?

What’s the name for the declaration that the U.S. would not allow European interference in the Americas?

Which law, passed in 1807, prohibited trade with any foreign nation?

What is the name for the British policy of seizing American sailors?

Who coined the term “manifest destiny” in his appeal to annex the Republic of Texas?

From what nation did Mexico gain its independence in 1823?

In what year did Texas declare independence and establish the Republic of Texas?

What was the name of the treaty that resolved the US-Canada border disputes?

Which major American political party typically opposed westward expansion? 

What was the name of the treaty in which Spain ceded Florida to the U.S. along with its claims to Oregon?

What was the name of the American who was granted a large land claim in Texas by Mexico?

What main issue arose quickly between Texans and the Mexican government?

The Texians defeated the Mexican Army and won independence in this battle.

Name the first president of the Republic of Texas.

Name the U.S. Army Captain who led a “map-making expedition” to California in 1845.

What was the name given to the promise by congressional leaders in the House of Representatives to ignore antislavery petitions?

Which politician routinely challenged the gag rule?

What was the name given to the 1836 proclamation by Jackson which required purchases of federal land to be made in gold or silver rather than bank notes?

Which two candidates ran for President in the election of 1840?

Who am I?  I became President in 1841 when Harrison died and authorized the annexation of Texas?

What coordinates regarding the boundary of Oregon were used as a campaign slogan by James K. Polk?

Who was considered a “dark horse” candidate in the 1844 election?

Who was the general sent by James K. Polk in 1845 to cross into Texas and approach the Rio Grande in an effort to create a war with Mexico?

What intellectual movement that emphasized individualism was championed by Thoreau and Emerson?

Who wrote Civil Disobedience?

What American intellectual protested the US-Mexico War by refusing to pay taxes?

What was the name for the rebellion organized by American immigrants in California?

What was the name for the final extension of US territory in the contiguous 48 states, negotiated in 1853?

Who was elected President in 1848?

Who became President in 1850, after Zachary Taylor died in office?

Which 1848 event led to a rapid increase in the population of California?

Where was gold first discovered in California?

Who published the antislavery newspaper, The Liberator?

Who led a slave revolt in Virginia in 1831?

The increase in immigration to the U.S. in the 1840s-1850s led to the creation of what political party in 1845?

Name the education reformer who sought to ensure that public schools helped to turn all future citizens into “good Americans”.

Name the reformer who sought to improve conditions in asylums for the mentally ill?

The most famous “conductor” of the Underground Railroad was who?

What term refers to a series of secret routes used to help African American slaves escape the South?

This abolitionist was killed by a mob along the border between Illinois and Missouri after he set up a printing press to publish antislavery literature.

Which document reads, “We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men AND WOMEN are created equal...”?

Where did the 1848 Convention of Women meet?

What was the last name of the sisters who were ardent abolitionists, serving as the first female representatives of the American Anti-Slavery Society.

Name one of the two women who organized the Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention.

Which organization encouraged the resettlement of freed African American slaves in Africa?

Who wrote the famous speech, “Ain’t I a Woman”?

What treaty ended the Mexican-American War?

What was the name for the proposed bill that would prohibit slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico?

What was the agreement that settled a crisis over the expansion of slavery in 1820?

Who crafted the Missouri Compromise of 1820?

Name the two senators who crafted the Compromise of 1850 and ensured it became law.

Enforcement of which law led many to believe that slave states and free states could not exist in the same country?

Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

What book angered Southerners and inspired many Northerners to support abolition?

What was the term for allowing each territory to decide for itself whether or not to allow slavery?

The idea of Popular Sovereignty was introduced by what Michigan congressman?

Who was the most prominent supporter of popular sovereignty?

The Missouri Compromise was explicitly repealed by which law?

Members of which two political parties joined together to create the Republican party?

In what year was the Republican Party founded?

What was the name for the civil war in a US territory that took place from 1854-1858, after the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

What two candidates for U.S. Senate from Illinois engaged in seven public debates that focused mostly on the issue of slavery?

What term refers to Stephen Douglas’s statement that popular sovereignty entitled voters to choose to ban slavery from a state despite the Dred Scott decision?

What was the proslavery document written in 1857 by questionably-elected Kansas delegates?

What was the name of the abolitionist who killed and mutilated five pro-slavery settlers near Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas?

This senator gave a speech entitled “Crime Against Kansas” and was beaten with a cane as a result.

Who beat Senator Charles Sumner with a cane because he believed that protecting the status of Kansas was a “point of honor”?

Which Supreme Court case declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional?

Who wrote the majority opinion in the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford?

What is the name for the line between Pennsylvania and Maryland?

John Brown planned an attack on which federal arsenal?

Name the three candidates for President in the election of 1856.

Who became President after the election of 1856?

Which state was the first to secede from the union?

Which compromise called for the extension of the Missouri Compromise line to the Pacific Ocean to preserve the union?

Who was the federal commander at Fort Sumter?

Who was appointed President of the Confederate States of America?

The first shots of the Civil War were fired where?

Division in the border states over the issue of secession led to the creation of what new state in 1863?

Name the three slave states that remained loyal to the Union.

To whom did Lincoln offer command of the Union army, but he did not accept?

How many states had seceded from the Union by February 1, 1861?

Name the seven states that seceded from the Union by February 1, 1861.

At the outset of the Civil War, who was the commander of the Union armies?

What was the name of General Winfield Scott’s plan to win the war for the Union?

What were the two major elements of Scott’s Anaconda Plan?

What was the first serious battle of the Civil War?

What all-black infantry regiment was awarded the Medal of Honor for bravery at the battle for Fort Wagner?

Who was the Confederate commander at First Bull Run?

Who was the Union commander at First Bull Run?

What was the name for the main Union army?

Who became the first commander of the Army of the Potomac?

What fort was taken by Union forces in 1862 and made Ulysses S. Grant into a hero?

Which extraordinarily bloody two-day battle in 1862 led many in the North to realize that the Civil War would be long and costly?

This Union General won battles in the west but took many casualties.

What was the name for the South’s elite force?

Who commanded the Army of Northern Virginia?

Which Confederate General defeated Northern forces in the Shenandoah Valley and Knoxville?

During which battle did the single bloodiest day of the war occur?

What were escaped slaves who came behind Union lines called?

What decree freed slaves in all Confederate states in rebellion?

In what year was the Emancipation Proclamation issued?

What was the name for Northern Democrats who advocated allowing the Confederate states to leave the Union?

Black soldiers were commended for their bravery in which battle?

Why did riots spread to cities across the South in 1863?

What was the name for paper currency backed by the government’s promise to pay rather than gold or silver?

What term refers to a group of Democrats in the North who opposed the Civil War?

What violent event in July of 1863 demonstrated the fierce opposition to expanding the goals of the civil war to include emancipation?

Who was appointed commander of the Union armies in 1863 by President Lincoln?

Which 1862 battle, which Union forces saw as the first step to attacking the Confederate capital, was a lopsided defeat that made Northern morale sink?

In the spring of 1863, Stonewall Jackson achieved a major Confederate victory by defeating Union commander Hooker in which battle?

The only major battle fought on Northern soil was this three-day battle in Pennsylvania.

What was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War?

Which Union commander won the siege of Vicksburg?

On what exact date did the Confederate forces at Vicksburg surrender?

The Union victory at Vicksburg enabled the North to control what resource?

Which Civil War nurse went on to create the American Red Cross?

Who did the Democrats nominate for President in 1864?

What was the nickname for General Sherman’s journey from Atlanta to Savannah?

What was the name for the most notorious prison camp in the South?

Where did General Lee surrender to General Grant?

Who shot and killed President Lincoln?

Where was Lincoln killed?

What state became a free state because of the Compromise of 1850?

Which religion did the Know Nothings particularly hate?

Who was the Republican candidate in the 1860 election?

What piece of legislation passed in 1862 gave land in the West to settlers who promised to live on it for 5 years?

What piece of legislation passed in 1862 authorized the building of a transcontinental railroad?

What general marched to the sea in 1864?

What bill required a majority of Southerners to take a strict loyalty oath before rewriting their Constitution?

What term refers to the requirement promoted by Radical Republicans that Southerners pledge loyalty and swear they had never raised arms against the Union?

What term refers to Lincoln’s very lenient plan for Reconstruction?

What order issued by Sherman in 1865 set aside lands off the coast of South Carolina for settlement by freed slaves?

What amendment ended slavery?

Who became president after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln?

What exploitative agricultural system replaced slavery in Southern states?

What term refers to Northerners who migrated to the South after the war to profit during Reconstruction?

What term refers to a Southerner who collaborated with Northerners during Reconstruction?

What term refers to Southerners who worked to oust the Republican coalition after

Reconstruction?

What Supreme Court decision stated that trying civilians in military courts was unconstitutional?

What term refers to the strict plan for Reconstruction implemented by the Republican Congress?

What act divided the South into five districts and placed them under occupation by the U.S. Army?

What agency was created in 1865 to help freed African Americans after the Civil War?

Who am I? I promoted stern requirements for Southern states and supported the rights of Freedman during Radical Reconstruction.

What term is used to describe the laws passed by Southern states after the Civil War to restrict African American freedom?

What bill proposed stated that all persons born in the United States were to be equal under the law, regardless of race?

Which organization advocated white supremacy and used violence and lynching to oppress African Americans after the Civil War?

Which Amendment to the U.S. Constitution extended citizenship to African Americans?

Which Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guaranteed the right to vote regardless of race?

What unwritten deal in the disputed election of 1876 formally ended the Reconstruction Era?

Who was elected president as part of the Compromise of 1877?