America

Question 1

Name the 13 states

Answer 1

Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, North Carolina, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virgin Islands.

Question 2

What is the only type of person that could vote?

Answer 2

White propertied men.

Question 3

When did the US win the fight against Britain and win?

Answer 3

1776-1783.

Question 4

How much was spent campaigning against native Americans?

Answer 4

80% of the US’s money.

Question 5

When did the US spend 80% of their money campaigning against native Americans?

Answer 5

1791

Question 6

When was the battle of fallen timbers won?

Answer 6

1794.

Question 7

What battle led to the treaty of greenville?

Answer 7

Fallen timbers

Question 8

What did the treaty of Greenville do?

Answer 8

Let the us take parts of the northwestern territory.

Question 9

When did Ohio, Illinois and Michigan form?

Answer 9

1803-1819

Question 10

When were thousands of slave plantations formed?

Answer 10

1790

Question 11

When was slavery starting to get phased out of seven of the northwestern states?

Answer 11

1789.

Question 12

When was the cotton gin invented?

Answer 12

1793

Question 13

How many times faster did the cotton gin process cotton?

Answer 13

50 times faster.

Question 14

When did white settlers go into the lands of the “five civilised tribes”

Answer 14

1790s

Question 15

When was there a successful slave revolt in the Caribbean?

Answer 15

1803

Question 16

When did deslondes organise a revolt that was crushed?

Answer 16

1811

Question 17

What were the five civilised tribes?

Answer 17

Cherokee, chikasaw, Choctaw, creek, Seminole

Question 18

By this time 100,000 slaves were sold to the south.

Answer 18

1815-1819

Question 19

When did cotton make up about 42% of all the US’s exports?

Answer 19

1820

Question 20

When was there a battle over whether the states that were created in the Louisiana purchase weee going to tolerate slavery?

Answer 20

1819

Question 21

What did the 1820 Missouri compromise achieve?

Answer 21

Drew a virtual line across the middle of the country and any state that feel below could be a slave state and any state that was above it counted as a free state.

Question 22

When did Cherokee have their own churches schools and newspaper?

Answer 22

1820

Question 23

Who was the third president of the United States?

Answer 23

Thomas Jefferson

Question 24

When did the US buy the French territory of Louisiana?

Answer 24

1803.

Question 25

How many acres of land did Louisiana have?

Answer 25

530 million acres.

Question 26

How much did Louisiana cost?

Answer 26

15 million.

Question 27

When did Lewis and Clark start to explore new lands?

Answer 27

1804

Question 28

When was New Orleans (in Louisiana) the fourth biggest city in the us?

Answer 28

1819

Question 29

When were Alabama and Mississippi added to Louisiana?

Answer 29

1819

Question 30

When was Andrew Jackson president?

Answer 30

1829-37

Question 31

When was the us producing over a million bales of cotton a year?

Answer 31

1838

Question 32

When was the Indian removal act?

Answer 32

1830

Question 33

What did the Indian removal act do?

Answer 33

Promised money to Indian tribes who relocated.

Question 34

What did the Choctaw and Chickasaw do when they heard of the promised money?

Answer 34

They relocated. 15,000 of them. And gave up 11 million acres of land.

Question 35

When did Cherokee fight the Indian removal act?

Answer 35

1832. They won and were able to stay.

Question 36

When did Seminole agree to move to Indian territory?

Answer 36

1830.

Question 37

What happened when some of Seminole didn’t agree?

Answer 37

Seminole wars: 1835-42

Question 38

When did the creek agree to give up some of Alabama?

Answer 38

1832.

Question 39

When did creek begin attacking white settlers that went onto their land?

Answer 39

1835.

Question 40

When did the army forcefully remove creek from their land?

Answer 40

1836-1837

Question 41

When did only 2000 Cherokee move to Indian territory?

Answer 41

1838.

Question 42

What was the trail of tears?

Answer 42

Indian tribes forced to march west. 4000 died due to starvation cold and disease.

Question 43

By what time had the government moved 46,000 Indians off their own land?

Answer 43

1838.

Question 44

When was the cotton gin invented?

Answer 44

1793

Question 45

When was the Louisiana purchase?

Answer 45

1803

Question 46

When was the Missouri compromise?

Answer 46

1820

Question 47

What did the Louisiana purchase do?

Answer 47

Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi joined the USA as slave states.

Question 48

When was the Missouri compromise stopped?

Answer 48

Stayed in place till 1854

Question 49

When was the anti slavery society created?

Answer 49

1833

Question 50

Who started the anti slavery society?

Answer 50

William loyd-Garrison and Arthur Tappan

Question 51

When did the anti slavery society grow to 250,000?

Answer 51

1838

Question 52

What did the anti slavery society do?

Answer 52

Meant that former slaves that had fled to the north were able to tell their stories through pamphlet petitions and essays.

Question 53

When was the Underground Railroad created?

Answer 53

1800

Question 54

Who set up the Underground Railroad?

Answer 54

Former slaves Fredrick Douglas and Harriet Tubman.

Question 55

What did the Underground Railroad do?

Answer 55

Helped slaves get smuggled to freedom. Thousands were smuggled to safety. South wasn’t happy with this.

Question 56

When does congress ban slavery in new territories?

Answer 56

1846

Question 57

What did congress banning slavery in new territories mean?

Answer 57

Northern politicians voted to ban slavery in any of the new territories (Cali). This called the Missouri compromise into question.

Question 58

When was the clay compromise

Answer 58

1850

Question 59

Henry clay suggested:

Answer 59

-cali entered as a free state -territories that are gained from Mexico make their own decision on slavery -all states should accept fugitive slave act which means that people should agree to return escaped slaves to their owners

Question 60

When was the Kansas Nebraska act?

Answer 60

1854

Question 61

When was bleeding Kansas?

Answer 61

1850

Question 62

When did James Buchanan become president?

Answer 62

1856

Question 63

When was Abraham’s presidential campaign and states rights?

Answer 63

1860

Question 64

When did South Carolina vote to succeed from the union?

Answer 64

November 1860, it was 169,0

Question 65

When did another six states leave the union?

Answer 65

1860-61

Question 66

When was the new confederate congress formed?

Answer 66

February 1861

Question 67

When was fort sumpter attacked?

Answer 67

April 1861

Question 68

What happened in in the Kansas Nebraska act?

Answer 68

Act that overturned the Missouri compromise. Said that Kansas and Nebraska could not be slave states.

Question 69

What happened in bleeding Kansas?

Answer 69

Violence broke out between people who were for and against slavery. Just under 200 people were killed in the violence.

Question 70

Where was the new confederacy government?

Answer 70

Montgomery, Alabama.

Question 71

Who was the new confederacy government led by?

Answer 71

Jefferson Davis

Question 72

When did the confederates open fire on fort sumpter?

Answer 72

12th April 1861