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- What was the white community scared of with newly freedslaves?
- Lincoln's opponents argued that by declaring the war, the confederacy had broken their ? and reverted to ?
- What issued emergency food rations, clothes, and shelter for homeless victims of war?
- Sarah Grimke; Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and Condition of Women
- A group of several families that shared common customs was called a
- Look at the chart.The pie chart shows that the population of enslaved people in Saint Dominique was
- What is the bloodiest one-day battle of the Civil War?
- Which best explains why some plantation owners punished enslaved persons?
- In Spanish Latin America, people who were of mixed European and Indian ancestry were called
- African enslaved persons outnumbered free people 10 to 1 in Saint-Domingue, which led to
- What event begins the Civil War? Who (which side) initiates that? What state is that located in?
- Read the passage.The Africans transplanted to Saint Domingue remain in general indolent and idle, quarrelsome and talkative, and liars, and are addicted to stealing. Always given to the most absurd superstitions, there is nothing which does not frighten them more or less.— A Civilization That Perished: The Last Years of White Colonial Rule in Haiti, 1797The passage shows that the author was most likely someone who was
- What battle occurred furthest north? In what state did it occur
- What was the South's major cash crop?
- British attempts to pay off debts from French & Indian War
- True/false: Black americans relied on court systems more than congress to fight for their rights b/c they were never elected
- True/false: Thurgood Marshall, head of the NAACP and Brown's attorney was passionate about the subject as he was rejected from a school for being black.
- True/false: Linda Brown had to take a 2-hour commute to and from school because she was not admitted to the local school.
- True/false: The decision in brown v. board of education may have been influenced by the cold war and the impact of segregation on America's reputation.
- At what battle did the Confederate forces take the Union forces by surprise and taught both sides they needed to send scouts?