History of the Americas Questions
Explore questions in the History of the Americas category that you can ask Spark.E!
Which Patriot leader persuaded Bostonians to created the first committee of correspondence?
Vicksburg, MS where he circled around the city, took the capital of Jackson, MS, and then seized Vicksburg.
even civilian property was to be destroyed. Thus the "conquer" part of the "blockade, divide, and conquer" plan was also being played out.
Members of activist groups, such as the Sons of Liberty, were typically which of the following?
The blockade was in place, the South was being divided down the Mississippi River, and now was to be divided through Georgia.
Which aspect of the Townshend Acts posed a great danger to American political autonomy, according to the colonists?
Which of the following was one reason the British sent 7,500 troops to North America after the end of the Great War for Empire in 1763?
Which of the following statements characterizes the British government's attempts to meet its war debt following the Great War for Empire?
The 1774 Coercive Acts applied to which of the following colonies?
In the decade before the America Revolution, the colonists achieved the greatest effect by using which of the following means of protest?
Who led the moderate faction at the Second Continental Congress and won approval of a petition expressing loyalty to George III and asking for a repeal of oppressive parliamentary legislation?
During the Depression the unemployment rate for black men in northern cities reached __________.
The Great Depression was probably the result of several factors, including __________.inequality of wealth and incomeover-regulation of the financial industrythe absence of international trade barriersa shortage of consumer credit
Which of the following was true of President Herbert Hoover?He did more to counteract a depression than any previous president had done.He promoted federal distribution of direct aid to the unemployed.He did nothing to combat the Depression.He launched the New Deal.
Most Americans blamed which of the following for the Great Depression?immigrantsunions President Herbert Hoover the international trading system
A major religious movement of the mid-18th Century that impacted the religious practices of Colonial America and, according to our text, established a more informal, decentralized and religious practice was subsequently known as "The ____________"
As a condition of ratification, several states demanded the inclusion of ten amendments to the Constitution. Among these are the rights to free speech, freedom of religion, the right to bear arms, and limitations on the power of the Federal Government. Collectively, these amendments are generally known as the "____________________"
"___________________ Rebellion" in Western Massachusetts showed the structural weakness of both post-Revolutionary States governments as well as the federal government under the articles of Confederation in the aftermath of the Revolutionary War and was one of the incidents that led to the 1798 Constitutional Convention.
The "_________"was a war caused by a combination of factors, toinclude US territorial designs on Canada, the continued impressment of US merchant sailors into the Royal Navy, British support of hostile Indian tribes on American territory, restraint of trade with Continental Europe, and lingering resentment over violations of American sovereignty such as the "Chesapeake Incident".
Christopher Columbus, an explorer/seafarer employed by the Spanish Monarchy to establish a Western trade route to Asia, made landfall in the vicinity of Hispaniola on _______________, believing he had reached the East Indies, having underestimated the circumference of Planet Earth by a factor of three.