| Question | Answer | Question | Answer | Question | Answer |
| Captured while negotiating under the white flag of truce | Osceola | Routed by troops | Seminoles | Used troops to route Seminoles | Taylor |
| Published Concord Hymn | Emerson | States "By the rude bridge that arched the flood/Their flag to April's breeze unfurled/Here once the embattled farmers stood/And fired the shot heard round the world | The Concord Hymn | Applied for a patent on his telegraph machine | Morse |
| Forced to move to the west of their home | Cherokee | Indians were forced to leave this state | Georgia | Indians forced to move west of this river | Mississippi |
| Path from Georgia to the west of the Mississippi | Trail of Tears | Tocqueville's book on his expeirience in the Americas | Democracy in America | Published Democracy in America | Tocqueville |
| The first co-ed college and the first college to admit blacks | Oberlin College | Where is Oberlin College located? | Ohio | Invents process for vulcanizing rubber | Goodyear
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| This war ends with boundary decided between two territories | Aroostook War | The boundary decided during the Aroostook War | The boundary between Maine and New Brunswick | These two people use a technique developed by Frenchman, Louise Daguerre to make first photograph | Morse and Draper |
| Supposedly invented the rules for baseball in New York | Doubleday | Where the rules for baseball were supposedly invented | Cooperstown, NY | Elected the nation's 9th President and the 1st Whig President | Harrison |
| Dies a month into his presidency after contracting pneumonia after giving a two hour long inaugural speech | Harrison | First Vice President to become President on death of Chief Executive | Tyler | Set up by George Ripley as a eutopian community at West Roxbury, Massachussetts | Brook Farm |
| Ajusts Maine-New Brunswick border and settled US-Canadian border | Webster-Ashburton Treaty | Where the US Canadian border is | Lake Superior and Lake of the Woods | Explored far west | Fremont and Carson |
| Settlement of Oregon Territory begins with this trail, begins at Independence, Missouri and ends in the Willamette Valley | Oregon Trail | Invented the sewing machine | Howe | Took over the American Museum in New York, filling it with relics and living exhibits | Barnum |
| Published memorial to legislature of Massachussetts, an indictment of state treatment of the insane. | Dix | Gives public demonstration of his telegraph with the memorable message, "What hath God wrought." It traveled from Washington to Baltimore. | Morse | The 11th US President, 1st Dark Horse candidate behind the slogan, "54 40 or fight!" in reference to the northern boundary of the Oregon Territory. | Polk |
| Kills Mormon Joseph Smith for advocating polygamy | A mob in Carthage, Illinois | The first President to get married while in office | Tyler | Tyler's wife | Julia Gardiner |
| Writes that it's nations manifest destiny to extend its borders to the west coast in accordance with the will of God | O'Sullivan | Annexed as a State | Texas | Began his two year experiment living on the shores of Walden Pond on land owned by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published Walden in 1854. | Thoreau |
| The US goes to war with Mexico with troops under _______________ | Zachary Taylor | Would have set up $2 million for the settlement of border disputes with Mexico and kept slavery out of any territory acquired by war with Mexico, failed in the House of Representatives named for David Wilmot | Proviso | Uses ether as an anesthetic at Harvard Medical School | Morton |
| Routes Mexican forces under Santa Anna at Buena Vista | Taylor | Defeats Mexican at Vera Cruz and later occupies Mexico City unopposed | Scott | Who was on the five cent stamp? | Franklin |
| Who is on the ten cent stamp? | Washington | Settled in Salt Lake City, Utah | Mormons | Head of the Mormons when they settled in Salt Lake City, Utah | Young |
| Was paid $100 for Oh Suzanna | Stephen Foster | How old was Stephen Foster when he wrote Oh Suzanna | 21 | Ended the Mexican War and gave the US most of the present day Southwest | The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
| Nations 12th President | Taylor | Founded at Oneida, New York | Industrial Utopia | Founded Industrial Utopia | Noyes |
| Discovered gold at Sutter's Mill, leading to the California Gold Rush the next year | Marshall | Held a convention for women's rights at Seneca Falls, NY | Mott and Cady | Saved from disaster in Salt Lake, as seagulls come and eat swarming crickets | Mormons |
| Had been jailed for one night for refusing to pay taxes which go to support slavery and the War with Mexico and published his essay, Civil Disobedience | Thoreau | Becomes first female physician | Blackwell | Nations 13th President after the death of Zachary Taylor and the last Whig President | Fillmore |
| Calls for federal jurisdiction over runaway slaves and prompt return of slaves to southern owners | The fugitive slave law | Critics warned him that his support for the compromise of 1850 may affect his chance for the Presidency. He says, "I'd rather be right than President." | Clay | California admitted as a free state, New Mexico and Utah territories have no restriction on slavery | Clay's compromise of 1850 |
| Patents updated version of sewing machine | Singer | Published Uncle Tom's Cabin, which becomes the fastest selling book at that time | Stowe | Defeats Scott to become 14th President | Pierce |
| Opens Japan to foreign trade | Perry | Negotiated by US minister to Mexico, James Gadsen add nearly 30,000 square miles of territory in the southern parts of present day Arizona and New Mexico | Gadsden Purchase | Created at meeting in Ripon, Wisconsin | Republican Party |
| Allowed settlers in the territories to choose between free soil and slavery | Kansas-Nebraska Act | Drew up the Ostend Manfesto | Buchanan, Mason, Soule | Secretary of state that requested the Ostend Manafesto | Marcy |
| States that the US should take Cuba if Spain refuses to sell | Secret Declaration | Published Leaves of grass | Whitman | First Republican candidate for president | Fremont |
| nation 15th president | Buchanan | Massachusetts Sentor who is beaten unconcious at his desk | Sumner | Beat Sumner unconcious | Brooks |
| Began laying out New Yorks central park | Olmstead | Looted and Sacked by pro-slavery forces | Lawrence, Kansas | Case that ruled Missouri Compromise in uncontitutional | Dred Scott vs Sanford |
| Began printing lithographs of American Life | Currier, Ives | Squared off in 7 debates in the race for Illinois Senate seat | Lincoln, Douglas | First transatlantic cable fails after four weeeks | Cyrus Fields |
| Where first oil well was drilled | Titusville | Who drilled the first oil well | Drake | The Comstock Lode | Large silver strike |
| Where the comstock lode was found | Virginia City | (blank) | (blank) | (blank) | (blank) |
| Captured by forces under Lee, hanged for treason | Brown | Composed Dixie | Emmett | Began 11 day service from St. Joseph to Sacramento | Pony Express |
| Nations 16th President | Lincoln | Voted to secede from the Union | South Carolina | Forced surrender of Anderson at Ft, Sumter | Beauregard |
| Sent from California Supreme Court to Washington DC | First transcontinental telegram | Commander of Confederate forces | Lee | Head of union foces | McClellan |
| Became hero as South routs North in First battle of Bull Run, earned nicname "Stonewall" | Jackson | Said"There is Jackson standing like a stone wall" | Bee | Wrote Battle Hymn of the Republic | Howe |
| Called Cheesebox on a raft | Monitor | Fought in first ever battle of ironclads | Monitor, Merrimac | Won the second Battle of Bullrun | South |
| Fought to bloody standoff at Shiloh, TN | Johnston and Grant | Became the bloodiest confrontation of war as troops clash | Battle of Antietam | Where the battle of Antietam was located | Frederick, Maryland |
| Two commanders that fought at Antietam | Lee and McClellan | Provided 30,000 acres of US land to each state to establish colleges | Morrill Land-Grant College Act | Gives land at minimal cost to settlers in the west | Homestead Act |
| Becomes law on January 1, 1863; freeing slaves in Rebel controlled territory | Empancipation Proclamation | Well known short person marries a 32 inch woman | Tom Thumb | Married Tom Thumb | Lavinia Warren |
| Defeated Fighting Joe Hooker at Chancellorville | Lee | Accidently shot by his own troops; has his arms amputated and dies | Stonewall Jackson | His troops met with heavy casualties at Gettysburg | Lee |
| Lost 1/2 of his 14,000 men in ill-fated assault | Pickett | The ill-fated assault that killed 7,000 | Pickett's Charge | Surrendered Vicksburg to Grant | Pemberton |
| Leads his pro-confederate forces on raids in Lawrence, Kansas killing 150 civilians | Quantrill | Attacked Fort Wagner in events that become the basis for the movie Glory | Massachussets 54th Colored Infantry | Defeated Rosecrans at Chickamauga | Bragg |
| Makes 2 hour speech no one today remembers | Everett | Wins again at Chattanooga; fought Lee in the Wilderness campaign | Grant | Sunk the ship Alabama off France | Kearsarge |
| Burns Atlanta; marches to sea and takes Savannah | Sherman | Takes Mobile Bay after urging his men to "Damn the Torpedoes, full speed ahead" | Farragut | His troops briefly occupy Washington before Grant sends reinforcements from Richmond | Early |
| Defeated McClellan for President | Lincoln | The Confederate Capital | Richmond | Where Lee surrendered to Grant | Appomattox Court House |
| What is the notorious prison camp that is liberated | Andersonville, Georgia | Assassinated Lincoln, shouted Sic Sempter Tyrannus; is hunted for crime, caught and killed at Port Royal | Booth | The 2 conspirators that are hanged | Surrat and Paine |
| Captured near Irwinville, GA | Davis | Published "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" | Twain | Patents the cylinder lock | Yale |
