Most of the Declaration of Independence consists of

  demands of colonists of Parliament
  a list of wrongs committed by the king
  philosophies of the colonists
  arguments against the ideas of John Locke

A major goal of the Lewis and Clark expedition was to

  drive the French out of fur trading ports
  drive the Spanish out of western lands
  gain control on Native Americans in the West
  gather information about areas west of the Miss. River

Settlers in Texas fought a war for independence against

  Mexico
  Spain
  Great Britain
  Native Americans

President during the War of 1812, considered the Father of the Constitution

  George Washington
  Thomas Jefferson
  Benjamin Franklin
  James Madison

Vice President who killed Hamilton in a duel

  John Adams
  Thomas Jefferson
  Aaron Burr
  James Madison

The Great Compromiser who worked for the American System

  Henry Clay
  Andrew Jackson
  John Adams
  James Polk

  James Polk
  Andrew Jackson
  James Madison
  Henry Clay

President during Mexican War, leader of Manifest Destiny

  Andrew Jackson
  James Polk
  Stephen Austin
  George Washington

Assassinated Abraham Lincoln

  Aaron Burr
  Jefferson Davis
  Robert E. Lee
  John Wilkes Booth

  Robert E. Lee
  U. S. Grant
  Stonewall Jackson
  Jefferson Davis

Made over $1 million selling hair care products to African Americans

  Scott Joplin
  Susan B. Anthony
  Alice Paul
  Madam C. J. Walker

Popularized ragtime music

  Langston Hughes
  WEB DuBois
  Scott Joplin
  George Washington Carver

Believed African Americans needed to find a trade and improve economically

  WEB DuBois
  Booker T. Washington
  George Washinton Carver
  Madam C. J. Walker

President during the Spanish American War

  William McKinley
  Theodore Roosevelt
  Woodrow Wilson
  FDR

Started the Rough Riders, conservationist

  William McKinley
  Theodore Roosevelt
  Woodrow Wilson
  FDR

Inventor of the phonograph, holds more patents than anyone in the world

  Andrew Carnegie
  Thomas Edison
  George Washington Carver
  John D. Rockefeller

Started Standard Oil

  George Washington Carver
  Thomas Edison
  Andrew Carnegie
  John D. Rockefeller

Leader of Hawaii overthrown by American planters

  Sanford Dole
  Emilio Aguinaldo
  Queen Liliuokalani
  Walter Reed

Rebel leader who fought first against the Spanish and then the Americans

  Joseph Pulitzer
  Walter Reed
  Emilio Aguinaldo
  Commodore Dewey

His book The Jungle led to the Pure Food and Drug Act

  Upton Sinclair
  John Hay
  John Dewey
  Walter Reed

The sharing of power between the national and state governments

  separation of powers
  federalism
  popular sovereignty
  checks and balances

The people rule

  limited government
  separation of powers
  popular sovereignty
  federalism

Fought against the British due to impressment of American sailors

  War of 1812
  Mexican War
  French and Indian War
  Spanish American War

Colonists fought this war for independence from Great Britain

  War of 1812
  Mexican War
  American Revolution
  Civil War

Won by the British, Canada now in British hands, created tension between colonists and Great Britain

  American Revolution
  French and Indian War
  Mexican War
  Civil War

Turning point of the Civil War

  Battle of Bull Run
  Battle of Antietam
  Battle of Gettysburg
  Fort Sumter

Freed slaves in the rebel states

  The Declaration of Independence
  The Constitution
  The Emancipation Proclamation
  The 13th Amendment

Period after the Civil War in which southern states had to meet requirements to be readmitted to the Union

  Reconstruction
  The Progressive Era
  The Gilded Age
  The Great Awakening

Organization that helped with education, jobs medical care and housing after the Civil War

  Homestead Act
  Dawes Act
  Freedmen's Bureau
  17th Amendment

  Dred Scott Decision
  Marbury v. Madison
  Plessy v. Ferguson
  Brown v. Board of Education

Joined at Promontory Point, Utah in 1869

  Mississippi River
  transcontinental railroad
  Homestead Act
  Turner Thesis

  Pure Food and Drug Act
  Sherman Antitrust Act
  Interstate Commerce Act
  Pendleton Civil Service Act

New type of variety show popular at the end of the 19th century

  ragtime
  vaudeville
  assimilation
  jazz

Took place in China as a reaction to foreign influence there

  Boxer Rebellion
  Open Door Policy
  Platt Amendment
  Chinese Exclusion Act