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
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
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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"