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Explore questions in the History of the Americas category that you can ask Sparky!
- When President Abraham Lincoln said to Harriet Beecher Stowe, "so this is the little woman who made this big war," he meant that--
- The Underground Railroad was part of which reform movement?
- What section of the United States was purchased from France in 1803?
- What area annexed by the United States contributed to the start of the Mexican War?
- Which region's primary economic activity in 1861 was the cultivation of cotton?
- True or False. The Emancipation Proclamation freed all slaves in this country.
- a biography on the military career of General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson would include his involvement in which Civil War events?
- Which region's primary economic activity in 1861 was industry?
- After General Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House, the main priority of the United States was to -
- American revolutionary troops captured Fort Ticonderoga from the British in May 1775
- Patriot victory: British eventually evacuate Boston after Patriots fortify Dorchester heights.
- 1777-78 winter battle were George Washington and his army lost many soldiers coldest winter ever not many supplies, food, shelter, and people
- British attack on NYC: colonists attempted tostop them by sinking ships, putting chainsacross the river, and fire on them from thebanks with canons.
- The battle that the British won and took control of Georgia
- Loyalists vs. Patriots. South wants to be separate from the North. Patriot victory.
- British Commanding General at the start of the American Revolution; replaces General Gage
- Leader of the team that captures the artillery at Fort Ticonderoga
- leader of a Patriot group of fighters known as the Green Mountain Boys
- Wrote the Declaration of Independence3rd President of the United States
- American silversmith remembered for his midnight ride (celebrated in a poem by Longfellow) to warn the colonists in Lexington and Concord that British troops were coming (1735-1818)