Which reformer hoped to help the mentally ill by creating mental hospitals instead of housing the mentally ill in prisons and almshouses?
What did most Forty-Niners travel to California to do?
During the Election of 1828, what was Andrew Jackson’s new political party called?
What was the name for the principle that people in the western territories should vote and choose for themselves whether or not the territory will allow slavery?
Which right did the suffrage movement fight for on behalf of women?
Which group of rugged men lived alone in the west in pursuit of furs in the 1800s?
Who led a raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry Virginia in 1859?
What was the name of the nation’s first Women’s Rights Convention held in 1848 in New York?
Which former slave ran away from his master in Maryland and gave eloquent and moving speeches against slavery in the North?
At which former mission did Texans hold off Mexican troops for 12 days before Santa Anna finally breached the walls and slaughtered the defenders inside?
Which two politicians debated the expansion of slavery into the western territories in 1858?
Who was known as the “Great Pacificator” because he worked on several compromises at difficult points in U.S. history?
Which group of travelers on their way to California was trapped in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and was forced to resort to cannibalism in order to survive?
Which religious group followed Brigham Young to Utah in search of a place to settle after their former leader, Joseph Smith, was killed for his religious beliefs?
What type of industry dominated the South in the 1800s?
What did Catherine Beecher, Emma Hart Willard, Elizabeth Blackwell, and Ann Preston hope to improve for women?
Which political party formed from the combination of several smaller anti-slavery parties in 1854?
Who led the most successful slave revolt in American history in 1831 near Richmond, Virginia?
Which state issued a Declaration of Secession on December 20, 1860 and became the first state to secede from the U.S.?
Chief Justice Roger Taney’s 1857 decision that the Constitution protected slavery was issued in which case?
Which treaty ended the Mexican-American War with the U.S. gaining 1.2 million square miles of Mexican lands?
Led by Ralph Waldo Emmerson and Henry David Thoreau, which group looked for new ways to view humanity, nature, and God together and searched for higher truths?
Since there was only one political party during James Monroe’s presidency, what did the time period become known as?
During which type of economic cycle did the nation face falling prices, lower production, unemployment, bankruptcies, and economic panics?
What happened to U.S. troops under General Zachary Taylor when he marched them in the disputed borderland between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande?
