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History of the Americas
Explore questions in the History of the Americas category that you can ask Sparky!
- Last battle of the Texas Revolution, Santa Anna's forces defeated and captured
- Agents tasked by Mexican gov't to convince Americans to settle in Texas
- Name of the Spanish speaking settlers living in Texas
- Who wins the 1860 Presidential election?
- Anti-Slavery Movement that stressed immediate emancipation of slaves
- This Disease was the number one killer of settlers moving west. Caught from drinking contaminated water
- How much did women make working in the textile mills?
- River that Mexico claimed was the southern border of Texas
- Slogan used by James K. Polk in regards to the Oregon Territory
- What turns the north in an economic power house? Who is the man behind it?
- How long did trip out west take by wagon train?
- Name for 2nd wave of settlers traveling west via wagon train
- What is needed to keep the american industrial machine going?
- Escaped Slave who became the leading figure in the abolitionist movement
- How long after Lincoln's inauguration until the first shots are fired in the Civil War?
- Settlers who blazed trails out west, gained knowledge of western terr. From Native Americans
- Name of the religious revival that inspired reform movements in the mid-1800s
- How much was the bounty on Harriet Tubman?
- What western territory did Brigham Young lead the Mormons to?
- Belief that it was America's destiny to expand over the entire continent