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- Which two colonies did not declare their independence during the early 1800s?
- The Bourbon and Pombaline reforms intended to rationalize and modernize the governance of overseas dominions. When did this happen?
- What language did the people of Cuzco (Inca Empire) speak?
- President Lincoln's main war goal was to eliminate slavery in all territories controlled by the United States
- African Americans in the north greeted the emancipate proclamation
- Both the Union and the Confederacy used African American soldiers during the Civil War.
- Hesitation by general McClellan helped lead to the failure of union troops to capture Richmond in mid-1862
- General Grant imposed very harsh terms on the surrendering Confederate soldiers at Appomattox Court House
- In the Civil War, for the first time, thousands of women served as
- Besides his strategy and weaponry, as well as knowledge of his adversaries, what else helped Hernán (this was his full first name) Cortés defeat the Aztecs?
- What Confederate capital was only about 100 miles from Washington DC
- The union hoped to gain control of both the Mississippi and Tennessee rivers in order to split the confederacy
- After the first battle of bull run, president Lincoln appointed George McClellan to lead the union army of the east
- The capture of New Orleans by troops under David Farragut put the Mississippi River under confederate control
- During his march from Atlanta to the sea Sherman targeted all aspects of the enemy's life
- The federal government became more powerful than state governments as a result of the union victory in the civil war
- William Tecumseh Sherman's march to the sea headed toward
- A series of Union victories in late 1864 helped Abraham Lincoln win reelection.
- What guarantees accused individuals the right to a hearing before being jailed?
- During the civil war, the south had an advantage over the north because of its larger army