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- Which state was admitted to the Union in 1845, despite a strong protest from Mexico
- In 1863 President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing all slaves in
- Although many U.S. citizens supported freedom in new territories, being a slave owner was still a right recognized by the Constitution because enslaved people were considered
- True or false: The Missouri Compromise ended proslavery and antislavery debates in the United States by requiring the number of newly admitted free and slave states to be equal
- The forced, 800-mile migration of the Cherokee people from the eastern woodlands to Oklahoma became known as the ___ __ ___ because of all the deaths caused by this migration
- By the mid-nineteenth century, southern states had developed an economy that centered on the export of
- From the start of the Civil War, President Lincoln stated that his primary goal was to
- Before the Civil War, the north had envisioned an industrial society with an agricultural system that depended on
- Before 1836, Mexican territory included what would eventually become the states of
- After taking control of Canada in 1763, Britain allowed the continued observance of French civil law in
- The large influx of English-speaking migrants to Canada after 1812 proved especially unsettling in the province of
- Although they were ultimately unable to stop U.S. settlement of their lands, the indigenous peoples of the plains region
- In the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, the United States acquired all the land between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains from
- Although tobacco cultivation declined, demand for slave labor on plantations remained high after 1800 with the rise of a new cash crop
- One of the most divisive issues to accompany westward expansion was whether new territories would allow
- Indigenous peoples were forced to leave their ancestral lands and move to "Indian Territory" (Oklahoma) by the
- After 1820, debates over whether a newly admitted state would forbid or permit slavery were settled by a series of political agreements, the first of which was the _____
- Following Lewis and Clark's survey of the western United states, many Americans, believing that it was their right to do so, headed west in search of
- Some of the economic factors that led to the Great Depression were bank failures, reduction in purchasing and
- Which country did Hitler invade that triggered the all-out conflict in Europe?