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History of the Americas
Explore questions in the History of the Americas category that you can ask Sparky!
- How did workers begin to gain better working conditions and higher pay?
- Roughly, how many hours a week did mill girls work?
- Which invention allowed wool to be spun 8 times faster than by hand?
- How did southerners feel about secession? How did abolitionists feel about it? How did most of the north feel?
- The rout of the Bonus Army marchers and the lingering Depression tarnished Hoover's public image.
- He set up the National Credit Corporation- created a pool of money that allowed troubled banks to continue lending money in their communities.
- Who was elected to be president of the confederacy?
- support for a federal relief measure increased- provided direct relief funds to the states for the poor
- What forced farmers off their land and to look for jobs in cities?
- Where was work done in the Domestic System?
- What were the natural resources that Great Britain had that helped it to industrialize first?
- credit led to risky decisions-people went into debt-lost jobs, couldn't pay to get out of debt-lost their savings
- How did the Proclamation of 1763 change the colonial view of British law?
- According to the Proclamation of 1763 how far west could the colonists move?
- According to the Stamp Act where would violators be tried?
- What other name is the French and Indian War known by?
- The southern commander of the Battle of Gettysburg
- The strategy in which troops were led on a 400 mile march of destruction through Georgia and South Carolina
- What did the South fear Lincoln would do, prompting South Carolina to secede?
- What was Kansas a microcosm of in the context of the sectional divide in the country?