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- Many children had a poor diet, many families became homeless, and many men became unemployed
- Why did the first Americans migrate from Asia to the Americas?
- Who claimed to have saved the white south from corruption
- Did the North or the South have more industry/ factory in 1861?
- General responsible for bringing south to its knees
- Who was the nurse who established red Cross?
- Ambitious but least successful of radical Republicans aims was
- Election of 1876-Racism still strong in N & S-focus turned towards Industrial Revolution -Grant lost credibility
- laws passed by Southern states in the aftermath of the Civil War that imposed strict regulations on the behavior and activities of African Americans
- Black people were employed by ex slaveholders-cycle of debt & poverty
- -Hayes (Rep) defeats Tilden (Dem) •Compromise of 1877 Military pulled out of South
- What term refers to the requirement that a person cannot be ailed without being charged with a crime?
- What was the name of the state that was formed when the western countries applied for statehood in the United States?
- What term refers to the act of leaving the Union?
- Who was the Republican presidential candidate in the election of 1860?
- What was the name for the nation formed by the southern states that left the Union?
- Who was elected president of the Confederate States of America?
- Which of the following statements accurately describes trains by the 1850s?A. They moved much slower than stagecoaches and steamboats.B. Their role in transporting people west helped protect Native American culture.C. They could operate year-round and on all types of terrain.D. They transported only freight, not people.
- Which of the following statements accurately describes the role of the government in the development of transportation in the nineteenth-century United States?A. State governments took on the full burden of financially supporting transportation projects.B. The government was unable to contribute to such projects because long-distance communication was virtually nonexistent.C. The government took a backseat in the development of transportation projects out of fear of disrupting the lives of Native Americans.D. State governments, the federal government, and private investors all contributed to such projects in their own ways financially.
- Which of the following is true of impressment in the early nineteenth century?A. The Chesapeake incident was the initial cause of the introduction of the practice of impressment.B. British warships stopped American merchant ships and forced sailors into the British navy.C. American merchant ships rarely attracted deserted British sailors because they paid very little.D. Impressment became far less frequent due to the dangers posed by the Anglo-French war.