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- Supporters of what type of economic system believed that one reason the United States industrialized so rapidly in the 1800s was because it was a vast free trade area?
- What is another name for the Confederate States of America?
- What were the 3 most advanced tribes in North America before Columbus?
- According to the Aztecs where did humans come from?
- What were the drawbacks to the civilizations in Mesoamerica having no interaction?
- What was the new political party that emerged in the election of 1860?
- What were the difficulties of the Mesoamerica civilizations developing?
- What kind of labor did the natives do for the Portuguese in Brazil?
- What were the 3 major civilizations that developed in the Americas Pre- Colombian?
- All of the following were legacies of the New Deal exceptA) The alienation of the working-class and blacks away from the Democratic Party.B) Greater government responsibility for individual welfare.C) More federal regulation of the nation's economy.D) Fundamental changes in the financial sector.
- Opposition to the New DealA) Came largely from the poorest segment of society.B) Prevented high levels of government spending.C) Came from both the political left and the right.D) On the whole discouraged Roosevelt from more dramatic reforms.
- the supreme court dicision upheld segregation laws in the south was
- A lasting result of the New Deal in the United States has been theA) Reduction of the national debt.B) Control of stock prices by the Federal Government.C) Joint effort of business and labor to strengthen the Presidency.D) Assumption by the federal govt of greater responsibility for the nation's well-being.
- Roosevelt's attempt to alter the Supreme CourtA) Failed to prevent the Court's total destruction of the New Deal.B) Backfired by making the Court permanently anti-New Deal.C) Sought to make the Court smaller and thus more responsive.D) Suggested to many critics that he was sidestepping the Constitution.
- What coastal city did Sherman's men march to creating 300 mile path of destruction?
- Who killed the president shortly after the war?
- What did the Union use to perfection during the Siege of Vicksburg?
- Who was the Union General who war racking up wins in the west at the start of the Civil War?
- ratical republicans took away voting rights from
- After a victory at Vicksburg the Union gained complete control over what resource?