History of the Americas Questions
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How did workers begin to gain better working conditions and higher pay?
Roughly, how many hours a week did mill girls work?
Which invention allowed wool to be spun 8 times faster than by hand?
How did southerners feel about secession? How did abolitionists feel about it? How did most of the north feel?
The rout of the Bonus Army marchers and the lingering Depression tarnished Hoover's public image.
He set up the National Credit Corporation- created a pool of money that allowed troubled banks to continue lending money in their communities.
Who was elected to be president of the confederacy?
support for a federal relief measure increased- provided direct relief funds to the states for the poor
What forced farmers off their land and to look for jobs in cities?
Where was work done in the Domestic System?
What were the natural resources that Great Britain had that helped it to industrialize first?
credit led to risky decisions-people went into debt-lost jobs, couldn't pay to get out of debt-lost their savings
How did the Proclamation of 1763 change the colonial view of British law?
According to the Proclamation of 1763 how far west could the colonists move?
According to the Stamp Act where would violators be tried?
What other name is the French and Indian War known by?
The southern commander of the Battle of Gettysburg
The strategy in which troops were led on a 400 mile march of destruction through Georgia and South Carolina
What did the South fear Lincoln would do, prompting South Carolina to secede?
What was Kansas a microcosm of in the context of the sectional divide in the country?