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Explore questions in the History of the Americas category that you can ask Sparky!
- what group had the greatest number of settlers in the American colonies
- What was the name of the govt. policy that set the highest protective tariffs?
- What document helped prepare England for limited government?
- ENGLISH-SPEAKING INDIAN LIVED IN PLYMOUTH, ACTED AS A GUIDE AND INTERPRETER, AND TAUGHT THE PILGRAMS HOW TO HUNT AND FISH
- YEAR THE PILGRAMS LANDED AT CAPE COD
- what year did the english defeat the spanish armada
- When the American troops started to prepare for another attack, Cornwallis agreed to Washington's terms and the battle was over.The French Navy joined the Americans by blocking British ships.
- The Continental Congress instructed each state to create its constitution and charged one group to write a national constitution.America wasn't under British rule. No judicial/executive branches and legislature congress. People worried the congress would control them so they weakened it.
- Why were more textile mills built in the North than in the South?
- What did Eli Whitney think about the mass production of muskets
- Not a large army, bad commander, terrible generals, Northerners ok with letting DC go, Washing DC was close to Virginia (south)
- he was a martyr dying for the cause of freedom. Conspiracy to mobilize slaves, slavery was under imminent attack, only option was to secede
- People violently protesting against the Draft torching building associated with draft (rich and republicans) killing over 100 people. 6000 troops were forced to stop the riots
- Maryland, it is where the capital is located (look bad for union). Sent troops so state legislators couldn't vote to secede , suspended right habeas corpus (legislators put in jail), and censored news papers. Yes
- Morrill Tariff Act, Homestead Act, Legal Tender Act, Morrill Land Grant Act, Emancipation Proclomation, Pacific Railway Act, and the National Banking Act
- Jefferson Davis president, bad government, lower population (won't let slaves fight), no foreign aid, and lacking industrialization
- The Anaconda Plan (slowly wrapping around south then killing it), General Winfield Scott (bad Health). Blockade the South, Capture Mississippi River and then divide and conquer
- Established government, Higher population, Navy, more natural resources (more resources in general as well), blockade of the South, more railroads, and President Lincoln
- You could buy your way out of military service or substitute someone in for you. Pay to pick where you were stationed.
- President Jefferson Davis( didn't listen to anyone) and Vice President Alexander Stevens (pres and Vp for the confederacy).Slavery, bring back Atlantic Slave trade, and president can only serve one 6 year term. Monetary issue (confederacy pretty lackluster)