Who famously tried to incite a slave rebellion at Harper’s Ferry?

He said to his friend, "If the British march
By land or sea from the town to-night,
Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch
Of the North Church tower as a signal light--
One if by land, and two if by sea--
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm,
For the country folk to be up and to arm."

American Poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, wrote the poem from which this excerpt is taken in 1860. About which famous Revolutionary War patriot was Longfellow writing?

The largest influx of German immigrants to America came during the time period of __________.

From the early-to-mid-nineteenth century, this wagon route from the Missouri River to Oregon permitted hundreds of thousands of immigrants to settle the West. What was its name?

In 1859, abolitionist John Brown led an armed slave revolt by seizing a federal armory in which modern day American town?

Unitarianism is characterized by __________.

On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation which did ALL of the following EXCEPT:

Which technological military innovation did not occur during the American Civil War?

1. Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst used this style of writing to increase newspaper readership which increased public sentiment to start a war with Spain.

Who among the following led the American Federation of Labor?