History of the Americas Questions

What were the colonists wanting to get rid of that was on the ships in the boston harbor?

Why were southern Congressmen in no rush to permit a Nebraska terriotry?

What was Lincoln's election a call for in the South?

Which even helped convince many Americans that the Articles of Confederation needed to be replaced with a new constitution that created a stronger central government

What was the Northern Democratic Party candidate?

Did Kansas become a free or slave state?

What was the point of the Compromise of 1850?

Which delegate at the constitutional convention brokered the "Great Compromise" that solved the issue of representation in the legislature

The federal fort in Charleston, South Carolina, where the first shots of the American Civil War were fired in April 1861

The first state to formally withdraw from the United States in 1860, triggering the secession of other Southern states.

fight a defensive war, gain foreign allies, wear out the North's will to fight

Lincoln vs. McClellan, Lincoln wants to unite North and South, McClellan wants war to end if he's elected, citizens of North are sick of war so many vote for McClellan, Lincoln wins

It denied confederate forces a major center of trade and industry, also gave the Union control of the Mississippi River Valley

John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln during a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater in Washington DC on April 14, 1865.

He was afraid that Europeans would join the battle with the south and help the south win.

1. Freedom of slaves2. Established a more powerful Government3. Lincoln's death

Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's destructive march through Georgia. An early instance of "total war," purposely targeting infrastructure and civilian property to diminish morale and undercut the Confederate war effort.

The Battle of was the " bloodiest " day in the history of American warfare

The nineteenth-century U.S. Army was organized into ___________ of about 1,000 soldiers. The Union forces contained a large number of __________ troops, roughly 25 percent. Many units in the Union army were comprised of the same __________. In many cases, these units were drawn from the same local community, with soldiers fighting side by side with neighbors and relatives. The Confederacy's armed forces, conversely, overwhelming consisted of _________ who were __________ into service

The Confederate strategy at the beginning of the Civil War included attempting to gain support from Spain and Portugal .