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Explore questions in the History of the Americas category that you can ask Sparky!
- Which free blacks were eager to receive an education? - People of all ages- Young men and women- Women more than men- Mostly middle-aged men
- Why was the power to make family decisions so important to newly freed slaves? - African Americans had stronger family ties than whites.- African American families were often destroyed under slavery.- Whites tried to undermine and divide black families during freedom.- White families were the anchors of many communities.
- Which of the following actions led to United States involvement in the First World War?
- He was watching the bombs bursting over Ft. McHenry in Baltimore Harbor. The next morning the flag was still flying.
- Missouri wanted to be admitted into the Union (U.S.) as a _____ state
- when it won it's independence from Mexico but before it became part of the United States
- It was next to the Mississippi and was a major port city. There was no way to ship goods without it.
- southerners considered slaves to be _______
- It allowed the federal government to pay Native Americans to move West. (Oklahoma) Andrew Jackson was president at the time.
- Maine can enter as a free state; Missouri was a slave state; 36 degree 30' N latitude would be the line that determined slavery
- Andrew Jackson - Favorite son TNJohn Quincy Adams - favorite son from MAWilliam Crawford - former senator from GAHenry Clay - favorite son & Speaker of the House They were all Democratic Republican.
- The Chief Justice John Marshall argued that Georgia had no right to interfere with Native Americans (Cherokee). Jackson chose to ignore this ruling.
- It said that when 10% of the voters from the Election of 1860 took an oath of loyalty to the Union they could form a new state government - proposed by Lincoln
- The House of Representatives because no candidate received a majority of the electoral votes.
- he was accidentally shot by his own men at Chancellorsville. He died of pneumonia a week later.
- It could cut off the supply lines to the Confederacy from the West and it allowed them to move into the heart of the South
- people who traveled westward in 1849 in hopes of finding gold
- A new wave of religious belief. It made long lasting communities and changed ideas about life. It caused a spirit of reform to sweep the nation.
- no - it varied from season to season. This caused many plantation owners to travel to find fair deals.
- A 19th century movement that focuses on the individual conscience. Civil disobedience is widely accepted.