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History of the Americas
Explore questions in the History of the Americas category that you can ask Sparky!
- General ___________ was sent by President Polk into Texas in 1845.
- What group were discriminated against in California?
- Women were allowed to vote under the Fifteenth Amendment.
- Which state actually split into two states over secession?
- What was the Alamo before it was a refuge/sanctuary?
- Mexico believed this river to be its border
- What was the provisional capital of Florida?
- Which statement best describes how slavery created a military advantage for the Confederacy during the U.S. Civil War?
- Reconstruction ended with the Compromise of 1877 and the election of Rutherford B. Hayes as president.
- After annexing Texas, what territory was next in Polk's focus?
- Which of the following did Abraham Lincoln propose as a means of reintegrating the former Confederate states back into the Union after the U.S. Civil War?
- President Andrew Johnson escaped impeachment by only one vote in the U.S. Senate.
- Which U.S. Civil War event is often credited for Abraham Lincoln's re-election in the fall of 1864?
- What is generally considered to be the greatest success of the Freedmen's Bureau?
- The Crittenden Compromise was a last ditch effort to stop the Civil War by explicitly amending the Constitution to protect slavery forever.
- What President admitted Texas into the union?
- Which agency was founded to assist African-Americans during Reconstruction?
- What name was given to northerners who moved south during Reconstruction, usually to invest in land?
- Which border state was the last to join the Confederacy?
- What name was given to Southerners who supported the Northern Reconstruction efforts in the South?