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History of the Americas
Explore questions in the History of the Americas category that you can ask Sparky!
- -What was the main reason that employers preferred women workers to men?
- -The free-market system of capitalism was defended in the book The Wealth of Nations by
- -What invention made possible the growth of railroads?
- Morill Act (provided for agricultural colleges)
- Marshall's Decisions: McCulloch v. Maryland; Dartmouth College v. Woodward; Gibbons v. Ogden
- -What natural resources gave Britain and advantage in the Industrial Revolution?
- -The first European nation to successfully industrialize, after Great Britain was
- -Who was the prophet of laissez-faire economics?
- -What was one reason that parents accepted child labor?
- Assassinated April 15th, 1865, by John Wilkes Booth
- -What was an agricultural improvement of the 1600s?
- From what long-lasting psychological consequences did the Great Depression survivors suffer?
- How did the treatment of the Bonus Army affect President Hoover?
- How did diminished demand affect farmers in the 1920s?
- What did the experience of farmers and consumers at this time suggest about the health of the economy?
- How did the Great Depression affect the world economy?
- Why did many farm families leave their land during the Great Depression?
- Who institutes Vice Admiralty courts to stop smuggling and to pay for import and export tax
- who starts, "no taxation without representation"
- Who was the only one to make it to Lexington to warn the people (not Paul Revere or William Dawes)