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History of the Americas
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- Columbus's first voyage - Established a connection between New and Old Worlds
- Jamestown founded - First permanent US settlement
- Do you think problems between the North and South could have been solved without going to war
- Fremont carried all of the 16 free states but only a single electoral vote south of the Mason-Dixon line
- Southern States Respond to Reconstruction
- the American Party was also the Knowing Nothings
- The electoral vote gave Buchanan the victory in the election of 1856
- The American Party grew quickly between 1853 and 1856 by attacking immigrants
- Who was the Democratic senator from Illinois in 1858? Who was the Republican that ran against him
- James Buchanan, a diplomat and former congressman, was nominated for president by the Republican Party in 1856
- Antislavery members of the Whigs and the Democrats joined Free-Soilers to form the Republican Party
- In the 1854 election, Republicans won several seats in the House of Representatives from Southern States
- What was the primary reason the following colonies were founded; Massachusetts, Maryland, & Pennsylvania?
- Who did the Second Continental Congress choose to lead the Continental Army?
- The Intolerable Acts, First Continental Congress, Common Sense, and the war itself all occurred during what time period in American History?
- What battle is known as the "Shot heard 'Round the World"?
- Sped up the cleaning and preparation of cotton for use in manufacturing
- Think of the word Urban. New York City is an urban city. Now what does Urbanization mean? What does it have to do with the Industrial Revolution?
- What problems did Americans face with urbanization, the growth of cites due to a lot of people coming from rural areas or cities?
- The Cotton Kingdom was the South. True of False