History of the Americas
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- Why did the British believe it necessary to reform colonial administration after the war?
- What city was viewed as the center of resistance to British authority during the 1760's and 1770's?
- How did the French and Indian War affect the national debt of England?
- How did the tax burden in England compare to that of the American colonies in 1763?
- Election of 1876: candidates, electoral commission
- what was the final ruling in the dred scott decision?
- how many candidates ran for president in 1860?
- what caused the break in the democratic party in the election of 1860?
- which political party were southerners distrustful of?
- in which region did the republican party receive their support?
- what did president buchanon have to say to congress about the south seceding?
- what made it possible for lincoln to win the election of 1860 even though his name was not on southern ballots?
- who was the first president of the confederacy?
- what were southerner's defending that they used as their justification for seceding?
- what compromise allowed california to enter as a free state?
- what was the man topic of the lincoln-douglas debates?
- what did fillmore get several whigs to do in regard to the compromise of 1850?
- who was the whig candidate for the presidential election of 1848?
- which president, after elected, intended to support the fugitive slave act?
- who ignored the issue of slavery is the 1848 presidential election?