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Explore questions in the History of the Americas category that you can ask Sparky!
- 55 delegates met in this city during the summer of 1787 in order to revise the government, in what would become known as the Constitutional Convention?
- What was the large state plan for government in which representation in the legislature would have been based solely on a state's population?
- What battle, fought in Maryland during the Civil War, marked the single bloodiest day in American history, with 25,000 casualties in one day alone?
- What 1839 invention helped make the Civil War the first "living room war," which allowed families to see the carnage of battle themselves?
- What Illinois Senator was the author of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, advocated for slavery to be decided by popular sovereignty, and lost the Presidential Election of 1860 as a Northern Democrat?
- What small town in Pennsylvania played host to the decisive 3-day battle, which ended in a Union victory and marked the farthest north that General Robert E. Lee's troops would advance?
- Which president, controversially elected in the Election of 1860, led the U.S. through the Civil War, and was the first President to be assassinated?
- What treaty, ceded New Mexico and California to the United States, after American forces marched on Mexico City to end the Mexican-American War?
- What 1863 presidential decree freed all enslaved people living in Confederate states still in rebellion?
- What is the 19th century idea that westward expansion was not only inevitable for the young nation but also a God-given right of its citizens?
- Which Union general engaged in total war, bringing his troops on a brutal 400-mile "March to the Sea" through Georgia and South Carolina that broke the back of the Confederacy?
- What he fiery figure waged a "holy war" against slavery, culminating in his failed raid on the Federal Arsenal in Harpers Ferry?
- Strength of government under Articles of Confederation
- Bill of Rights in Declaration of Independence
- Articles of Confederation power to impose taxes
- Number of states needed to approve new law under Articles of Confederation
- Georgia involvement in French and Indian War
- Revolutionary War battle in Georgia, Patriots lost
- Who thought that big business should be supported and no welfare given out? (Across 2)
- FDR used these to try to explain his plans and reassure the American people.