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History of the Americas
Explore questions in the History of the Americas category that you can ask Sparky!
- Who beat Charles Sumner with a cane for comparing slavery to prostitution?
- The ___________ said that there should be no slavery in any newly acquired territories
- who proposed that the territory west of Illinois should be settled to create a transcontinental railroad (proposed popular sovereignty could be used to settle that land)
- The idea proposed by Lewis Cass for settling new territories into States and letting them choose
- Who was the first state to seceed from the Union
- Which tariff raised taxes on foreign goods and hurt international trade?
- Which of the following was the last battle of the Civil War?
- What did factories in Austin and Tyler manufacture for the Confederate soldiers?
- Did not want to be under Spanish rule; revolted in 1768; Forced Ulloa to return to Spain
- Gain control of Saint Domingue and Louisiana; get large sums of money for wars
- How did Great Britain gain a virtual monopoly during Industrial Rev?
- What inventions are associated with the second agricultural revolution?
- Where did the second agricultural revolution begin?
- When was the second agricultural revolution?
- How'd the 2nd AR (agricultural revoultion) increase access to new forms of transportation?
- Where did the second agricultural revolution spread?
- The Election of 1824 brought controversy when the House of Representatives chose __________ as president,
- Henry Clay developed a plan eventually known as the ______________ —a series of measures intended to make the United States economically self-sufficient.
- _____________ was a time of peace, pride, and progress in the United States that lasted from 1815-1825.
- Under the Adams-Onís Treaty, Spain gave East Florida to the United States. In return, the United States gave up its claims to what is now Texas.