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- were the minutemen defense or offense in the fight against the British?
- __a person who organizes, manages and takes on the risks of a business.
- A member of any of the bands of English workers who destroyed machinery, especially in cotton and woolen mills, that they believed was threatening their jobs (1811-16).
- How many free slave states were there in 1854?
- How many states seceded from the Union?
- What was the practicing ideology of the Republican presidents, like Calvin Coolidge, during the Gilded Age and the Roaring 20s that impacted the behaviors of Big Business?
- As African Americans began to establish new churches after the war, the denomination many former slaves decided to join was ____________.
- To restrict the civil rights of freed blacks, many southern states adopted "__________ __________" that placed blacks into a situation that closely resembled slavery.
- What did the improvement of medicine and sanitation lead to?
- Resources like Coal and Water allowed what country to industrialize first in the world
- What kind of inventions help increase the spread of ideas
- The term __________________ refers to those people who came from the North to the South, either to aid in Reconstruction or as political and economic opportunists.
- Even before the war ended, preparing for Reconstruction set off an intense power struggle between ____________________.
- Grant supported the use of "hard money" to pay off the nation's war debt, which meant they would be paid in __________ rather than greenbacks.
- Which of the following best describes the most lasting environmental impact of the Civil War?
- Andrew Johnson, Lincoln's running mate in the election of 1864, belonged to which political party?
- Which of the following was the highest cause of death for Union and Confederate soldiers in the Civil War?
- From the beginning of the war, the stated goals of the Union were ________________. [choose all that apply]
- Some historians argue that the Confederates lost the Civil War at what part of the Battle of Gettysburg?
- How many African Americans served in the Union army during the Civil War?