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History of the Americas
Explore questions in the History of the Americas category that you can ask Sparky!
- In the 1770s, the American Revolution was met with the most resistance by which group of people?
- Which of the following is not one of the tasks women performed during the Revolution?
- What was the most likely reason why loyalism to the British crown was more concentrated around New York City than Boston?
- During the Revolutionary War, why did many colonial slaves fight on the side of the British rather than with the colonists?
- What led the Iroquois to choose the British forces as allies in the Revolutionary War rather than the colonists?
- Which term describes German soldiers hired by Great Britain to put down the American rebellion?
- Where in colonies did the British military concentrate their attacks?
- geography and climate (life in North vs South) and waterways (Mississippi River)
- labor on large plantations and mine for silver and gold (suffered harsh treatment and were often beaten/worked to death)
- a name for people who worked to make slavery illegal
- slogan during Spanish-American War after the U.S. battleship Maine was sunk in Cuban waters
- to carry mail across the United States quickly; began to operate in 1860 and continued for 19 months
- black botanist who encouraged farmers to diversify their crops and helped restore the South to prosperity; his laboratory became known as "God's Little Workshop"
- the secret network of escape routes and hiding places between the Southern states and Canada
- Give the name of the eleven southern states that separated from the Union during the Civil War
- black educator and founder of Tuskegee Institute; author of Up From Slavery
- a decision that tries to satisfy both sides of an argument
- leader of the Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War
- Union general who captured Atlanta and "marched to the sea"
- an escaped slave and one of the most famous leaders of the Underground Railroad