1. Who were America’s first fifteen presidents?
2. Who led Americans to Texas and what did the have to promise?
3. What happened at the Alamo, Goliad, and San Jacinto?
4. Who were William Travis, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, Sam Houston, and Santa Anna?
5. What was the Republic of Texas and what happened to it?
6. How and why did Americans move to Oregon?  Who else claimed it?
7. How and why did Americans move to California?  Who claimed it?
8. What did James K. Polk promise, and what did he do?
9. What is a dark horse candidate?
10. Who were Young Hickory, Old Rough and Ready, Old Fuss and Feathers, John C. Frémont, and Stephen Kearny, and what did they do?
11. What happened in the Mexican-American War?
12. Where was gold discovered in 1848 and what were the results?
13. Who were the forty-niners?  How did they get to California?
14. What was life like in California during the Gold Rush?
15. Who were the Mormons, who were their leaders, why and where did they go West?
16. Why did the Industrial Revolution happen in the North?  What is capital and why was more available in the North?
17. Where were the first railroads built?
18. What were clipper ships?
19. What were the telegraph and Morse Code?
20. What did Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, John Deere, Cyrus McCormick, and Samuel Morse do?
21. Where did most immigrants to the United States come from during the 1840s and 1850s?
22. What are unions, why were they formed, and what were some of the first strikes over?
23. What were America’s largest cities in 1860?
24. How did most Southerners live in the early 1800s?
25. What were the major crops of the Upper South, Deep South, and Midwest?
26. Who was Nat Turner and what did he do?
27. What were slave codes and why were they created?
28. What did the American Colonisation Society, the Free Soil Party, abolitionists, nativists, Know-Nothings, the temperance movement, and the Republicans want?
29. Who were Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Henry ‘Box’ Brown, William Lloyd Garrison, the Grimké Sisters, Elihu Embree, and Elijah Lovejoy?
30. What was the Underground Railroad?
31. How did Northern and Southern views of slavery change in the 1830s-1850s?
32. What was the Compromise of 1850?  Who supported it or opposed it?  Why?
33. What was the Transcontinental Railroad?
34. What was the Gadsden Purchase?
35. What were the Kansas-Nebraska Act, popular sovereignty, and Bleeding Kansas?
36. Who was John Brown and what did he do in Kansas and at Harper’s Ferry?
37. What were the results of the Dred Scot case?
38. Who were Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas?

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