History of the Americas Questions
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Why did the southern states secede from the Union and form the Confederacy?
By 1860, __________ had become the nation's preeminent financial, commercial, and manufacturing center
For most formerly enslaved people, freedom first and foremost meant
The __________ Resolution from the early days of the war affirmed that the Union had no intention of interfering with slavery
What do the authors of South Carolina's Declaration of the Immediate Causes of Secession present as the cause of their leaving the Union?
During the Civil War, what term was used to describe camps of southern enslaved people who had escaped from their enslavers and entered Union lines?
Which was a component of the Know-Nothing Party?
Which was responsible for the greatest number of deaths among soldiers during the Civil War
After the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment in 1870, which group was still not guaranteed a constitutional right to vote?
Fighting a defensive war with the hope that the enemy would simply grow tired of fighting was the most consistent strategy of which general?
The __________ Amendment abolished slavery throughout the United States
General Benjamin F. Butler began the policy of treating escaped formerly enslaved people as
The tribe that harassed the sttlers at Bucareli
a road that ran through nacogdoches and san sntonio where it branched to san juan bautista and laredo before meeting up in saltillo
Leader of the East Texans who founded Nacogdoches
Soldierees who fight on horseback, are called what
the leader in east texas who captured nacogdoches
opened part of new orleans; kept the lower mississippi valley out of british lands
claimed to fight for mexican independence but really had more personal reasons
spain transferred florida to the united states and the u.s. surrendered all claims to texas