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History of the Americas
Explore questions in the History of the Americas category that you can ask Sparky!
- Which of the following abolitionists used literature as their primary means of promoting their cause?
- What office was Abraham Lincoln running for when he faced off against Stephen Douglas in a series of famous debates?
- She wrote a book called Uncle Tom's Cabin, made more people go against slavery.
- Republican from Illinois who loses the 1858 Illinois senate race, but wins president in 1860.
- The people would decide, would determine slavery in the territories according to the Kansas-Nebraska.
- What famous African-American leader turned down John Brown as Brown planned his attack on Harper's Ferry?
- What particular protestant faiths divided by North- South factions during the Antebellum period.
- What state were the first shots of the Civil War fired?
- John Brown first made a name for himself in an attack in Kansas at _______?
- Abraham Lincoln was an early member of this group which opposed slavery.
- One major reason for the Republican victory in 1860 that made Abraham Lincoln president was
- For a time, at the beginning of his career, what kind of abolitionist was Lincoln?
- Which type of abolitionism would inspire the creation of the nation of Liberia?
- Frederick Douglass supported John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry.
- Prior to the outbreak of Civil War it was clear that the North and the South did not clearly understand each other in many crucial ways.
- Lincoln won the entire North and thus won the election without a single southern vote.
- Union fort that sits in the middle of Charleston harbor, site of the first shots of the Civil War.
- Under the Compromise of 1850 California entered the nation as a
- What year did the Republican Party first run a candidate for president?
- The Kansas-Nebraska Act served as a compromise over which two issues?