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- The term "Californios" referred in the 1830s and 1840s to ________ in California.
- Mother Ann Lee was the founder of which utopian community or group?
- Which piece of legislation prevented Congress from hearing antislavery petitions?
- The Declaration of Sentiments condemned the "injuries and usurpations" of
- The proliferation of new institutions such as poorhouses and asylums for the insane during the antebellum era demonstrated the
- What treaty ceded California and present-day New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and Utah to the United States?
- Which proposed resolution, supported by the North and opposed by the South, attempted to ban slavery in all territory gained from Mexico?
- What was the significance of the argument concerning the extension of slavery into territory acquired following the Mexican War?
- Which Amendment abolished slavery throughout the United States?
- Which September 1864 event helped Lincoln win reelection as president that November?
- Which victory allowed the Union to control the entire Mississippi River.
- Which battle saw more casualties than any previous engagement in the nation's history and got rid of the idea that the Civil War would be short?
- What offered 160 acres of free public land to settlers in the West.
- The famous Lincoln-Douglas debates took place during the campaign for
- Which landmark Supreme Court case declared that Congress could not ban slavery from territories?
- Blacks were not permitted to serve in the American armed forces during the Revolution.
- The British offered freedom to slaves who fought against the Americans.
- Which is the largest battle ever fought on the North American continent?
- The rights of American women did not significantly expand with independence.
- The French played a vital role in the colonists' victory at