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Explore questions in the History of the Americas category that you can ask Sparky!
- What was the name of the Fort that was bombed for 2 days in Baltimore Harbor?
- In what year did we finalize the purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France?
- By 1800, about how many Americans lived between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River?
- -Union and Confederate forces met here-fought for control of the nation's capitals-close to Manassas VA
- -McLellan's and Lee's forces collided, near the town of Sharpsburg-first major battle of the civil war to occur on Union soil-bloodiest day in American History
- what was printed to finance the civil war
- -created the Anaconda Plan-Union navy General in Chief
- -union general-led the Union armies to victory in the American Civil war-later elected 18th president
- -plan to suppress the rebellion (strangle the Confederacy by cutting off access to coastal ports and waterways via a naval blockade: surround and squeeze confederacy
- -government support for the building of the first transcontinental railroad
- -Lee surrendered to Grant at this courthouse April 9, 1865
- -union commander-"Great organizer of the Union Army of the Potomac"
- set aside federal lands to create colleges to "benefit the agricultural and mechanical arts."
- -confederate general-surrendered in April 1865 in front of the Appomattox Court house
- the fall of ___ split the confederacy in two
- -Grant launched his campaign against Vicksburg, MI-they were the last holdout in the west
- -1862, part of the Whig economic package-any adult citizen or intended citizen who has never borne arms against the US government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land-help develop the American West and spur American growth
- During the Great Depression thousands of what type of people were deported?
- -bloodiest battle of the war-defeat for confederacy, gave federals a badly needed victory
- who wrote it and when was the emancipation procclamation