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- In 1862, in the midst of the Civil War, Congress passed the ____________ , which granted railroad companies more than 100-million acres in order to complete a transcontinental railroad, which they did in 1869.Selected:
- Before 1848, the non-Indian population of the State of California was about 15-thousand people. By 1860, it was more than ____________. And, in the same time period, the Native-American population decreased from 150-thousand to ___________. The gold rush, and its impact on California, is one very dramatic illustration of the causes and effects of westward migration in the years surrounding the Civil War.
- Both of these images have in common (pictures of plantations expressed in a positive manner)
- Many people found work in the industries that served the miners, like hardware stores, boarding houses, and restaurants. And between 1860 and 1880, the ___________ in the United States tripled.
- Black abolitionists also acted as the primary "conductors" on _________, an informal network of activists who helped enslaved people escape.
- In 1862, Congress also passed the ___________, which grated 160 acres of land, for free to anyone over the age of 21 who had never taken up arms against the U.S. Government, so no one who was affiliated with the Confederacy, as long as they made improvements to the land within five years. And this included women, immigrants, and African-Americans.
- US President __________ is the leader most associated with Manifest Destiny.
- This painting, which was painted in 1872 by the artist John Gast, is called ___________.
- It is a great and dangerous error to suppose that all people are equally entitled to liberty. It is a reward to be earned, not a blessing to be gratuitously lavished on all alike . . . not a boon to be bestowed on a people too ignorant, degraded and vicious, to be capable either of appreciating or of enjoying it." Who would be most likely to NOT have authored the quote above?
- Politics in the United States fractured over the issue of whether Texas should be admitted
- In the late 1700s, when enthusiasm for liberty was high and profits from slavery were low, some observers predicted that ___________________.
- Although __________of the white population of the South did not own any enslaved people, a culture of white supremacy ensured that poor whites identified more with rich slaveholders than with enslaved African Americans.
- The first Industrial Revolution centered on the creation of cotton fabric. The ____________ demanded cotton, and the American South supplied it. By 1820, the United States was growing more than 30 times as much cotton as it had in 1793.
- Senator James Henry Hammond declared that the "whole civilized world" would topple if the South ceased to supply cotton. "Cotton," he declared, ____________.
- "True, the rebellion is quelled . . . You have seen, it is to be feared, but the beginning of sorrows. All the blood which has been shed will be acquired at your hands. At your hands alone? No--but at the hands of the people of New-England and of all the free states. The crime of oppression is national. The South is only the agent in this guilty traffic. But, remember! the same causes are at work which must inevitably produce the same effects; and when the contest shall have again begun, it must be a war of extermination. . ."-Source: William Lloyd Garrison, The Liberator, 1831The excerpt was written in response to which of the following events?
- Of the 3,650,000 Blacks living in the US in 1850, how many were enslaved?
- If the international slave trade ended in 1808, how would you explain the information in the chart below with regard to the slave population? (Sorry I can't use the pic)
- What Mexican priest issued a call of rebellion to the Indians of his parish
- What country did Brazil gain its country peacefully from
- Who was the independence leader in Venezuela