History of the Americas Questions

In the summer of 1862, Congress introduced a militia law that requires states to draft people for military service called

What did Congress pass in 1862 they created a national currency and allow the government to issue paper money?

Small, first vessel the south used to smell goods pass the union navy

First African-American regiment officially organized in the north

Left her job and patent office tuner soldiers on the battlefield

A series of attacks on McClellan's army to Robert E Lee.

I heart biscuit made of wheat flour in by union soldiers

Cause bring to threaten war against the United States

Gave Lincoln authority to call state militias, which included drafted troops, into federal service

Her work led to the creation of the United States sanitary commission

Early on April 6, 1862, confederate forces launched a surprise attack on the ground troops who are camped out about 20 miles north of Corinth, Mississippi, nearest small church named

In April 1862, New Orleans, the Sal's largest city in the center of the country, was in union hands due to daring decision made by

Hey name the Republicans called the peace Democrats

Oppose the war and called for reuniting the states through negotiation rather than force

Before 1860, the South had no major facilities for making gun powder and only one factory capable for producing cannons, the

The wearing down of one side by the others through exhaustion of soldiers and resources

Many of the English colonies were founded by groups seeking religious freedom-- such as the Pilgrims and Puritans who founded WHAT COLONY?

These were devout Puritans who believed that they must separate from the Church of England. They arrived in 1620 on the Mayflower.

THIS DOCUMENT -- drawn up by the Pilgrim Separatists -- set up the basis for self-government and majority rule in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

New England men met together to make decisions for their community at THESE, which was a very democratic method of governing.