Unit 13 Test Flashcards
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an author who wrote
poetry
God created the Cascade Mountains. Geologists believe that Crater Lake formed after a geological event at Mount Mazama in the Cascades. What was the event?
volcanic eruptions
When this was completed from coast to coast, the Pony Express was no longer needed:
telegraph lines
To address slavery in the western states and the return of enslaved people who had run away, Henry Clay proposed an agreement called the
Compromise
Who saved the lives of her own mother and sisters as well as many sailors?
Abbie Burgess
What journey took enslaved people to freedom?
Underground Railroad
Beginning in 1849, Forty-Niners flocked to California in the California ___.
Gold Rush
In the *Dred Scott v. Sanford *decision, what government body stated that enslaved people were not citizens?
U.S. Supreme Court
What president hired stonemasons to build the Portland Head Light?
George Washington
An enclosed wagon that carried passengers between stages was a
stagecoach
