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History of the Americas
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- Why did the southern states secede from the Union and form the Confederacy?
- By 1860, __________ had become the nation's preeminent financial, commercial, and manufacturing center
- For most formerly enslaved people, freedom first and foremost meant
- The __________ Resolution from the early days of the war affirmed that the Union had no intention of interfering with slavery
- What do the authors of South Carolina's Declaration of the Immediate Causes of Secession present as the cause of their leaving the Union?
- During the Civil War, what term was used to describe camps of southern enslaved people who had escaped from their enslavers and entered Union lines?
- Which was a component of the Know-Nothing Party?
- Which was responsible for the greatest number of deaths among soldiers during the Civil War
- After the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment in 1870, which group was still not guaranteed a constitutional right to vote?
- Fighting a defensive war with the hope that the enemy would simply grow tired of fighting was the most consistent strategy of which general?
- The __________ Amendment abolished slavery throughout the United States
- General Benjamin F. Butler began the policy of treating escaped formerly enslaved people as
- The tribe that harassed the sttlers at Bucareli
- a road that ran through nacogdoches and san sntonio where it branched to san juan bautista and laredo before meeting up in saltillo
- Leader of the East Texans who founded Nacogdoches
- Soldierees who fight on horseback, are called what
- the leader in east texas who captured nacogdoches
- opened part of new orleans; kept the lower mississippi valley out of british lands
- claimed to fight for mexican independence but really had more personal reasons
- spain transferred florida to the united states and the u.s. surrendered all claims to texas