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American History questions, Ice Age to Civil War
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1
Representative from Kentucky, "the great compromiser"
John C. Calhoun
Henry Clay
John Bell
Henry the Eighth
2
This religious group was led by Joseph Smith.
Mormans
Quakers
Baptists
Mennonites
3
The Convention of 1818
Treaty with Indian Nations
Ended the War of 1812
Made Florida Spanish Territory
Set the U.S.-Canada border at the 49th N latitude
4
Native American culture area that had many Bison
Eastern Woodlands
California
Great Plains
Arctic
5
The deadly voyage from Africa to America was known as the...
Marginal Passage
Middle Ship
Miserable Voyage
Middle Passage
6
This animal went extinct in America during the ice age, but was re-introduced by Europeans
Giant Sloth
Horse
smilodon
Mammoth
7
Aztec War God
Moroni
Huitzilopochtli
Viracocha
quetzalcoatl
8
Sacagawea was from this tribe
Creek
Choctaw
Comanche
Shoshone
9
The first state to secede from the Union in 1861 was....
South Carolina
South Dakota
South of the Border
South Africa
10
1830 law that forced Indians to move west of the Mississippi
Indian Removal Act
Land Ordinance of 1785
Rush-Bagot Agreement
Alien and Sedition Act
11
The last Ice Age in the Americas was known as the...
Jurassic Period
Land of the Lost
Cenozoic Era
Pleistocene Epoch
12
Kentucky, Missouri, Delaware, Maryland
Border Ruffians
Border Territories
Border provinces
Border States
13
The British attack on this city resulted in the writing of the Star Spangled Banner
Hartford, Connecticut
Baltimore, Maryland
New Orleans, LA
Washington D.C.
14
This 1854 law said slavery in the western territories should be decided by popular sovereignty
Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Adams-Onis Treaty
Missouri Compromise of 1820
15
German mercenaries that American soldiers were afraid of in the Amercian Revolution
Hessians
Royal Marines
Conquestadors
Redcoats
16
America's obvious future is to expand from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean
Imperialism
Invasion of the West
Manifest Destiny
Colonialism
17
This cash crop saved the colony of Jamestown from poverty and starvation
Hemp
Indigo
Tobacco
Corn
18
He suspended the 1821 Constitution of Mexico and made himself dictator
Simon Bolivar
Emillio Zapata
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
Hernan Cortes
19
To break away from the United States and leave the Union of states
Success
Secede
Succeed
Souix
20
William Clarke's slave who explored Louisiana Territory
Kunte Kinte
Harry
Old Joe
York
21
Large mammals of the Pleistocene Epoch
Dinosaurs
Megagodzilla
Megafauna
Megaflora
22
This engineering project connected the Hudson River with the Great lakes
Mississippi River
Suez Canal
Panama Canal
Erie Canal
23
This was the official name of the states that seceded from the Union
Union of Southern States
Confederate States of America
United States of America
Good Ole' Dixie
24
This abolitionist wanted to start an armed slave uprising in the South
John the Baptist
John Adams
John Bell
John Brown
25
The Exchange of plants, animals and diseases between the old world and the new world
Cinco de Mayo
Vegetable trade
Columbian Exchange
The Great Exchange
26
The 5th President of the U.S.A. was who?
James Monroe
James Buchanan
Martin Van Buren
James Madison
27
Won the Presidency in 1860
Abraham Lincoln
John Brown
John Bell
Steven Douglas
28
Native Americans and escaped slaves who fled to Florida and fought the U. S. Army
Apache
Seminoles
Cherokee
Iroquois
29
The second war America fought with Great Britian
King Phillip's War
French and Indian War
War of 1812
War with Mexico
30
Invention that shrank the distance between the Atlantic and the Pacific
Steam engine train
trousers
telegraph
steamboat