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A. history 3
quiz bowl
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Seminoles were routed by | Zachary Taylor |
| published "Concord Hymn" | Emerson |
| applies for a patent for his telegraph machine | Samuel Morse |
| forced removal of cherokee indians from georgia to land west of the mississippi | trail of tears |
| wrote Democracy in America | Tocqueville |
| first college to be a coed college and first college to admit blacks | Oberlin College |
| oberlin college located in... | Ohio |
| invents process for vulcanizing rubber | Goodyear |
| ends with the boundary decided between Maine and New Brunswick | Aroostook War |
| make the first photographs in the US | Morse and Draper |
| invents the rules for basketball in Cooperstown, NY | Doubleday |
| 9th president; "tippecanoe and tyler too" | Harrison |
| first whig president | Harrison |
| dies a month into his presidency because of pneumonia | Harrison |
| Brook Farm was set up by __________ as a utopian community at west roxbury massachusetts | Ripley |
| wrote The Blithedale Romance | Hawthorne |
| adjusts the Maine-New Brunswick border and settled the US Canadian boundary between Lake Superior and Lake of the Woods | Webster Ashburton Treaty |
| nicknamed "the pathfinder" | John C. Fremont |
| invents the sewing machine | Elias Howe |
| he takes over the American Museum in New York, filling it with relics and living exhibits | P.T. Barnum |
| published Memorial to the Legislature of Massachusetts | Dorothea Dix |
| sent the message "what hath God Wrought?" | first telegraph message sent by Morse |
| 11th US president | Polk |
| first "dark horse" canidate | Polk |
| had the slogan "54-40 or fight" | Polk |
| mod in Carthage, IL kills this man | Joseph Smith |
| becomes the first president to wed while in office to julia gardiner | John Tyler |
| wrote that it is the nation's "manifest destiny" to extend its borders west | John O'Sullivan |
| lives on Walden Pond for 2 years | Thoreau |
| published essay in 1854 | Walden |
| nicknamed Old Rough and Ready | Zachary taylor |
| would have set up $2 million for the settlement of border disputes with mexico and kept slavery out of any territory aquired by war with mexico | Wilmont Proviso |
| uses ether as anesthetic at Harvard Medical School | Dr. William Morton |
| defeats mexicans at vera cruz and later occupies mexico city unopposed | Winfield Scott |
| was on the first 5 cent stamp | benjamin franklin |
| was on the first 10 cent stamp | george washington |
| religious group headed by Brigham Young | mormons |
| is paid $100 for "Oh, Susana" | Stephen Foster |
| ends mexican war and gives the US most of the present day southwest | Treaty of Guadalupe |
| 12th president | Taylor |
| industrial utopia in Oneida, NY founded by... | John Noyes |
| discovers gold at suitors mill | James Marshall |
| held a convention for women's rights at Seneca Falls, NY | Mott and Stanton |
| refused to pay taxes which were going to support slavery and the war with mexico | Thoreau |
| publishes Civil Disobedience | Thoreau |
| becomes the first female physician | Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell |
| 13th president | Fillmore |
| last whig president | Fillmore |
| calls for federal jurisdiction over runaway slaves and prompt return of slaves to southern owners | Fugitive Slave Law |
| says "id rather be right that be president" | Henry Clay |
| admits california as a free state, and new mexico and utah territories have no restrictions on slavery | Compromise of 1850 |
| patents updated version of the sewing machine | Isaac Singer |
| 14th president | Franklin Pierce |
| opens japan to foreign trade | matthew perry |
| adds nearly 30,00 square miles of territory in the southern parts of present day arizona and new mexico | the gadsen purchase |
| applies for patent on evaporated milk | gail borden |
| allows settlers in territories to choose between free soil and slavery | kansas-nebraska act |
| first republican canidate for president | fremont |
| 15th president | buchanan |
| lays out new york's central park | Olmstead |
| rules that the missouri compromise is unconstitutional | dread scott v sanford |
| print lithographs of american life | Currier and Ives |
| nicknamed the "little giant" | stephen douglas |
| drills the first oil well | Edwin Drake |
| large silver strike in virginia city, nevada became to be known as | the comstock load |
| captured by robert e lee | john brown |
| composes "dixie" | dan emmett |
| first republican president | lincoln |
| his forces surrender at fort sumter | beauregard |
| head of the union forces | McClellan |
| becomes a hero in the south at the first battle of bull run; nicknamed stonewall | Thomas Jackson |
| says "there is jackson standing like a stone wall" | bee |
| writes battle Hymn of the republic | Julia Howe |
| fight in the first battle of the ironclads | monitor and merrimac |
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