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History of the Americas
Explore questions in the History of the Americas category that you can ask Sparky!
- Who thought that the issue of slavery in Kansas was only a minor issue?
- To deal with dissent in the Union states, what did Lincoln suspend?
- Why was David Farragut's April 1862 victory so important?
- A system in which the residents vote to decide id they should keep slavery in the territories or not is called?
- Who was Clara Barton and why is she significant to the Civil War?
- Why did Lincoln not respond with force to the Confederate threat to attack Ft. Sumter?
- Who was upset by the Dred Scott decision's?
- Stephen Douglas's argument that people could keep slavery out of a territory by refusing to pass laws supporting it is called?
- What type of occupations did people have in the southern economy?
- What resulted from the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
- Favoring native-born over foreign-born people is called?
- Nativists who believed that slavery should not expand into territories because it would reduce wages of white laborers are called?
- What was the goal of people who opposed the compromise?
- The formal withdrawal of a state from the union is called?
- Laws passed by Northern states against adding enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act are called?
- What was the main goal of people who support the compromise?
- Who was one of the most active conductors of the Underground Railroad? What was she called?
- A Kansas territory was a battle ground in the civil war between pro-slavery and anti-slavery id called?
- Allows popular sovereignty on slavery for Kansas and Nebraska is called?
- Where did slaves live and work typically in the southern economy?