All Categories
History of the Americas
Explore questions in the History of the Americas category that you can ask Sparky!
- When was the Fourteenth Amendment made?
- what amendment states the equal protection clause
- When was the fifteenth amendment made?
- 12. What event does the passage describe? Democrat Samuel J. Tilden won popular vote but the election was cast into doubt when it was discovered 20 electoral votes had been cast illegally. An Electoral Commission appointed by the Senate investigated the issue ruling that all the disputed votes go to Hayes making him the winner. Hayes agreed to the Compromise of 1877 to soothe hurt feelings and prevent Southern Democratic opposition. Rutherford B. Hayes became the 19th President of the United States.
- 9. _____ believed the government should enforce the civil rights of African Americans.
- 10. Many black historians call the Compromise of 1877 the _____.
- 4. The _____ Age was time of unbroken growth and prosperity in America during the latter part of the 19th century.
- 5. Passage of the _____ Amendment guaranteed the right of American citizens to vote regardless of their race.
- 6. The _____ Act of 1870 allowed freedmen to become citizens.
- 7. Blamed for the _____ Depression, President Grant failed to be reelected in 1876.
- Which city had the largest slave market in the United States during the antebellum period?
- Which hybrid strain of cotton dominated production in the Mississippi River Valley during the antebellum era?
- 1. _____ won the popular vote but failed to win the presidency in the election of 1876.
- 2. _____ was elected president in the election of 1876.
- 8. _____ believed economic stability was necessary before African Americans could achieve full civil rights.
- How did enslaved individuals often resist their conditions within the system of paternalism?
- According to John C. Calhoun's idea of the concurrent majority, what power did a separate region with a concurrent majority have?
- What percentage of the cotton produced in the United States was eventually exported abroad between 1820 and 1860?
- What major slave uprising occurred in 1831 and was led by the enslaved Nat Turner?
- What concept did the Southern White people rely on to justify slavery, arguing that slaveholders acted in the best interest of those they enslaved.