Dates

Question 1

When was the Louisiana land purchase?

Answer 1

1803

Question 2

When did the USA declare the slave trade illegal?

Answer 2

1808

Question 3

When was the Missouri compromise?

Answer 3

1820

Question 4

When was the Erie Canal opened?

Answer 4

1825

Question 5

When was the Indian removal act?

Answer 5

1830

Question 6

When was Nat Turner’s revolt?

Answer 6

1831

Question 7

When was the National anti-slavery society formed?

Answer 7

1833

Question 8

When did Texas win independence from Mexico?

Answer 8

1836

Question 9

When was the trail of tears?

Answer 9

1838

Question 10

When was the Preemption act?

Answer 10

1841

Question 11

When did Texas join the USA?

Answer 11

1845

Question 12

When was Polk in power? What party was he?

Answer 12

44-48

Democrat

Question 13

When was the Wilmot proviso?

Answer 13

1846

Question 14

When was the Mexican war?

Answer 14

1846-48

Question 15

When was the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

Answer 15

1848

Question 16

When was Taylor in power?

Answer 16

Whig Taylor 48-50

Dies

President Fillmore 50-52

Question 17

When was the 1850 compromise???? ;)

Who proposed it, who helped get it through

Answer 17

1850!

Henry Clay, Stephen Douglas

Question 18

When was President Pierce in power?

What party was he?

Answer 18

52-56

Democrat

Question 19

When was the Kansas Nebraska act?

Answer 19

1854

Question 20

When was the sack of Lawrence?

Answer 20

1856

Question 21

When was bleeding Sumner?

Answer 21

1856

Question 22

When was Buchanan president?

What party?

Answer 22

1856-1860

Democrat

Question 23

When was the Dred Scott decision?

Answer 23

1857

Question 24

When does Buchanan support the Lecompton constitution?

Answer 24

1857

Question 25

When was Pike's peak?

Answer 25

1858

Question 26

When was Comstock Lode discovered?

Answer 26

1859

Question 27

When was John Brown's raid?

Answer 27

1859

Question 28

When is Lincoln president?

Answer 28

1860-65

Question 29

When is Lincoln inaugurated?

Answer 29

1861

Question 30

When does South Carolina secede?

Answer 30

1860

Question 31

When was Fort Sumter?

Answer 31

1861

Question 32

When is the Confederacy established?

Answer 32

1861

Question 33

When does the Sioux war break out in Minnesota?

Answer 33

1862

Question 34

When was the civil war?

Answer 34

1861-65

Question 35

When was the Homestead Act?

Answer 35

1862

Question 36

When was the Pacific Railroad Act?

Answer 36

1862

Question 37

When was the Morril Land Grant Act?

Answer 37

1862

Question 38

When was the Sank Creek massacre?

Answer 38

1864

Question 39

When was the Transcontinental railway completed?

Answer 39

1869

Question 40

When was the battle of Little Bighorn?

Answer 40

1876

Question 41

When was the Dawes Act?

Answer 41

1887

Question 42

When does the Ghost dance religion begin and the battle of wonder knee happen?

Answer 42

1890

Question 43

When was the Trent affair?

Answer 43

1861

Question 44

When is the battle of Gettysburg?

Answer 44

1862

Question 45

When is the Laird Ram crisis?

Answer 45

1863

Question 46

When does the confederacy introduce conscription?

Answer 46

1862

Question 47

When are the New York draft riots?

Answer 47

1863

Question 48

When does Grant become general in chief?

Answer 48

1864

Question 49

When is Lincoln re-elected?

Answer 49

1864

Question 50

When does Lee surrender?

Answer 50

1865 At Appotomax

Question 51

Medicine Lodge treaty?

Answer 51

1867

Question 52

When was the transcontinental telegraph line completed?

Answer 52

1861

Question 53

When was the Gadsden purchase?

Answer 53

1854

Question 54

When was the famous California gold strike?

Answer 54

1849

Question 55

When was economic panic?

Answer 55

1819

Question 56

How many miles of canal was there in 1840?

Answer 56

300,000 miles

Question 57

When was the Burns affair?

Answer 57

1854 Anger over the fugitive slave act

Question 58

How much land was lost as a result of the Dawes Act?

Answer 58

60 million acres

Question 59

How many Indians died in the Indian wars?

Answer 59

8500

Question 60

When was the medicine Lodge treaty?

Answer 60

1867

Question 61

In how many states did Lincoln get no votes?

Answer 61

9