Memory test 5

Question 1

Inventor of the cotton gin

Answer 1

Eli Whitney

Question 2

Inventor of the steam boat

Answer 2

Robert fulln

Question 3

inventor of the telegraph

Answer 3

Samuel Morse

Question 4

Invention that change modern agriculture

Answer 4

McCormick reaper

Question 5

Person who wrote the Star-Spangled Banner

Answer 5

Francis Scott key

Question 6

Person who wrote the first American dictionary

Answer 6

Noah Webster

Question 7

The policy that told Europeans to not medal in Americans Affairs. Americans include both north and south America.

Answer 7

The Monroe doctrine

Question 8

Battle where 150 Texans Thought the 4000 Mexican soldiers

Answer 8

The Almo

Question 9

A hero who helped lead Texas independence

Answer 9

Steven Austin

Question 10

War fought over the boundaries of Texas and Mexico

Answer 10

Mexican, American war

Question 11

General of the Mexican army

Answer 11

Santa Ana

Question 12

American general who defeated the Mexican army

Answer 12

Zachary Taylor

Question 13

Movement of several settlers, who hopes to get rich in California

Answer 13

The gold rush

Question 14

Name of people who oppose slavery

Answer 14

Abolitionist

Question 15

Law, that stated slavery would not be allowed in Louisiana territory

Answer 15

Missouri compromise

Question 16

System of secretly transporting slaves north to Canada

Answer 16

The underground railroad

Question 17

Former slave who had over 300 slaves to freedom

Answer 17

Harriet Tubman

Question 18

Author of uncle Tom’s cabin

Answer 18

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 19

Slave who appealed to the Supreme Court for freedom

Answer 19

Dred Scott

Question 20

Slave who escaped slavery and wrote and autobiography to show people why slavery is evil

Answer 20

Frederick Douglass

Question 21

bonus…

Answer 21

May 10, 1869