History of the Americas Questions
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55 delegates met in this city during the summer of 1787 in order to revise the government, in what would become known as the Constitutional Convention?
What was the large state plan for government in which representation in the legislature would have been based solely on a state's population?
What battle, fought in Maryland during the Civil War, marked the single bloodiest day in American history, with 25,000 casualties in one day alone?
What 1839 invention helped make the Civil War the first "living room war," which allowed families to see the carnage of battle themselves?
What Illinois Senator was the author of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, advocated for slavery to be decided by popular sovereignty, and lost the Presidential Election of 1860 as a Northern Democrat?
What small town in Pennsylvania played host to the decisive 3-day battle, which ended in a Union victory and marked the farthest north that General Robert E. Lee's troops would advance?
Which president, controversially elected in the Election of 1860, led the U.S. through the Civil War, and was the first President to be assassinated?
What treaty, ceded New Mexico and California to the United States, after American forces marched on Mexico City to end the Mexican-American War?
What 1863 presidential decree freed all enslaved people living in Confederate states still in rebellion?
What is the 19th century idea that westward expansion was not only inevitable for the young nation but also a God-given right of its citizens?
Which Union general engaged in total war, bringing his troops on a brutal 400-mile "March to the Sea" through Georgia and South Carolina that broke the back of the Confederacy?
What he fiery figure waged a "holy war" against slavery, culminating in his failed raid on the Federal Arsenal in Harpers Ferry?
Strength of government under Articles of Confederation
Bill of Rights in Declaration of Independence
Articles of Confederation power to impose taxes
Number of states needed to approve new law under Articles of Confederation
Georgia involvement in French and Indian War
Revolutionary War battle in Georgia, Patriots lost
Who thought that big business should be supported and no welfare given out? (Across 2)
FDR used these to try to explain his plans and reassure the American people.