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- What action provided Congress with the grounds it needed to impeach President Andrew Johnson?
- 13 - QuizWhich independence leader issued, "el grito de delores"?
- The Supreme Court ruling in the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) held that
- By the end of the 1830s, as a result of its removal policies, the United States took control of more than 100 million acres of indigenous lands.
- When the United States entered World War I, Germany was near defeat.
- Prior to 1860, what was the fastest-growing segment in American society?
- Which group led the most independence movements
- In the decade following the Spanish-American War, American troops could be found in both Cuba and the Philippines.
- One of the key goals of the Know-Nothing movement was an attempt to reduce the influence of
- Controversial presidential race between Hayes (Republican) and Tilden (Democrat) that resulted in a tie and led to a compromise that ended Reconstruction
- was the major obstacle facing Simon Bolivar in uniting all of South America
- The Constitution did little to resolve the status of indigenous people within the new United States.
- Perhaps the single strongest factor that unified pre-Civil War white Southerners was their
- In the Emancipation Proclamation, President Abraham Lincoln declared freedom for enslaved people
- Following the Seven Years' War, the British government faced huge problems with imperial organization but had ample funds to deal with those problems.
- One effect of the Declaration of Independence was that individual colonies were motivated to reconstitute themselves as "states."
- 15 - QuizWhich leader of Mexico's independence movement declared himself emperor and was later executed?
- Which of the following nations remained America's most important ally during the American Revolution?
- The great majority of Irish immigrants settled where in the United States?
- The Marshall Court strengthened the federal government at the expense of the states.