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- This president was elected in 1860 causing South Carolina to secede.
- She wrote, Uncle Tom's Cabin, a book that exposed the truth about slavery.
- The idea that people living in a territory should decide whether that territory would prohibit slavery via a vote.
- The firing at this Charleston Harbor was the last spark that formally began the Civil War.
- What was Elizabeth Cady Stanton's response to the denial of women's suffrage while freedmen and immigrant men were being enfranchised?
- Southern whites responded to the end of slavery by enacting
- What was the official reason Congress cited for impeaching Andrew Johnson?
- **How did Lincoln reframe the purpose of the Civil War from preserving the Union to portraying the struggle against slavery as the fulfillment of America's founding democratic ideals?
- Evaluate the extent to which Reconstruction provided for a new definition of liberty for African Americans.
- Identify social, political, and economic changes in American society that occurred as a result of the Civil War or the period of Reconstruction.
- President hoover opposed direct federal releif to the unemployed because he belived?
- President Herbert Hoover hoped that increasing government funding for public works project would?
- Farmers on the great plains to lose their crops during the Depression becasue?
- Thousands of World War I veterans came to Washington in 1932 to lobby Congress to
- The depression had deep roots in the economy of the 1920s, including overporoduction, high tariffs, missteps by Federal Reserve, and?
- During the 1930s, many americans preferred movies, radio programs, and other forms of popular entertainment that
- During the Depression, newly homeless people put up comunities of shacks they called
- How did westward expansion and deepening regional division over economic, cultural, and political issues lead the nation into civil war?
- How does George Caleb Bingham's painting, The County Election, represent the democratization of the West and the portrayal of the frontier in American history?
- What difficulties did the Jamestown settlers face in their first years in America