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History of the Americas
Explore questions in the History of the Americas category that you can ask Sparky!
- Expansion of Democracy in Age of Jackson (How is the electorate changing? Implications on politics?)
- The Cotton Gin the McCormick Reaper (Eli Whitney, How is this reflective of the era/period? What was the significance? Tie to Market Revolution)
- Reform movements of the mid 19th century (significant leaders, causes, consequences)
- Louisiana Purchase (what it was, significance, international context, Jefferson and the constitution)
- a senator who persuaded Congress to adopt the Missouri Compromise
- (1837-1841) Advocated lower tariffs and free trade, and by doing so maintained support of the south for the Democratic party. He succeeded in setting up a system of bonds for the national debt.
- Congressman who proposed the amendment that would have outlawed slavery from Mexican territories
- Thomas Paine's pamphlet Common Sense
- pro-slavery Missourians who traveled in armed groups to vote in Kansas' election during the mid-1850's, in order to make it a pro-slavery government
- 1857 Supreme Court decision that stated slaves were not citizens: slaves were property no matter where they were living and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional
- (n.) one who flees or runs away; (adj.) fleeting, lasting a very short time; wandering; difficult to grasp
- A political party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery
- a legal case brought to settle a dispute between people or groups
- Was a Congressman from South Carolina, notorious for brutally assaulting senator Charles Sumner on the floor of the United States Senate.
- a novel published by harriet beecher stowe in 1852 which portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral
- (1811-1896) American author and daughter of Lyman Beecher, she was an abolitionist and author of the famous antislavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- - Leader of the Whig Party, originally pro-North, supported the Compromise of 1850
- Combining multiple companies into 1 corporation to gain power is referred to as
- To raise capital, Corporations formed by selling stock to the public. Individuals who had stock in a company
- Acquiring all companies and materials necessary to make a product refers to a