History of the Americas Questions
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Who alerted the minutemen that the British were coming?
What did the people who instigated the Boston Tea Party call themselves?
What was the last battle of the French and Indian War?
Who signed the Declaration of Independence?
What motivated a massive population explosion in California starting in 1848?
What book was published in 1852 that helped the issue of slavery reach a widespread audience?
Approximately what percentage of American voters chose Abraham Lincoln to be President during the election of 1860?
Who was the Seventeenth President of the United States who was impeached for breaking the Tenure of Office Act?
What was the first state to secede from the Union on December 20, 1860?
What was the belief that the people living within a territory could vote to decide whether they would have slavery or not known as in developing states like Kansas?
On September 2, 1864, Union General William T. Sherman tried to destroy the will of the Southern people by beginning a campaign to destroy which Confederate state?
Who led a Pan-Indian Alliance with the help of the British to end American expansionism until his death during a battle in 1813?
What was the name of the town that housed the most infamous prisoner of war camp in the Confederacy where nearly 13,000 Union prisoners died from neglect and abuse?
Where were the most deadly draft riots in the North that exploded in July of 1863 causing thousands of casualties and threatening Union stability?
When the Indian Removal Act was passed in 1830 the Supreme Court declared it
Who became the leader of an early labor movement that was trying to improve working conditions for "mill girls"?
What type of business combination became increasingly popular because it protects investors through the concept of limited liability?
What was the name of the treaty that ended the Mexican War in 1848 and gave the United States control over the modern states of California, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and Utah?
Which two nations accounted for the majority of immigrants between 1840-1860?
What was the name of a religious organization developed in the Nineteenth Century that believed true gender equality could only be achieved through celibacy?