All Categories
History of the Americas
Explore questions in the History of the Americas category that you can ask Sparky!
- THIS ENSLAVED BLACKSMITH TRIED,AND FAILED, TO ORGANIZE A SLAVEREBELLION IN THE VICINITY OFRICHMOND, VIRGINIA, IN 1800
- THE LEADER OF AN INDIANCONFEDERACY, THIS MIAMI CHIEFSIGNED OHIO OVER THE THE UNITEDSTATES FOLLOWING THE BATTLE OFFALLEN TIMBERS
- THIS FORMER SLAVE LED HAITIANSLAVES TO VICTORY AGAINSTFRENCH COLONIAL FORCES ANDESTABLISHED THE FIRST BLACKREPUBLIC FOLLOWING THE DEATH OFTOUISSANT L'OVERTURE
- THESE LEADERS OF THE "CORPS OFDISCOVERY" EXPLORED THELOUISIANA TERRITORY ON BEHALF OFPRESIDENT THOMAS JEFFERSON
- THIS LEADER OF THE HAITIAN SLAVEREBELLION WAS CAPTURED BYFRENCH FORCES AND DIED IN AFRENCH PRISON
- Which two battles began to change the tide of the war in favor of the Union?
- THIS LITERATE SLAVE AND VOODOOPRIEST CONVINCED THE SLAVES OFSAN DOMINGUE TO REBEL AGAINSTFRENCH COLONIAL SLAVEHOLDERS
- THIS CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE SUPREMECOURT TOOK THE POWER OFJUDICIAL REVIEW FOR THE SCOTUS INTHE CASE MARBURY VS. MADISON
- THIS UNPOPULAR 1807 ACT SAWPRESIDENT THOMAS JEFFERSON ANDCONGRESS CLOSE AMERICAN PORTSTO EUROPEAN IMPORTS ANDEXPORTS AS A MEANS TO PREVENTWAR
- IN THE "BLOODLESS REVOLUTION,"THIS DEMOCRATIC-REPUBLICANDEFEATED PRESIDENT JOHN ADAMS IN1800
- THIS NEW YORK MEETING SAWALEXANDER HAMILTON, JAMESMADISON, AND THOMAS JEFFERSONAGREE TO HAMILTON'S DEBTREPAYMENT PLAN IN RETURN FORMOVING THE US CAPITAL TO THESOUTHERN STATES
- INSPIRED BY EVENTS IN THE UNITEDSTATES, THIS 1789 EUROPEANREVOLUTION SAW THE PEASANTRYRISE UP AND DEPOSE THE SITTINGKING
- THIS INFAMOUS SUPREME COURTCASE RULED THAT SLAVES HAD NORIGHT TO SUE IN COURT, THAT THE5TH AMENDMENT PROTECTED SLAVEPROPERTY, AND THAT THE MISSOURICOMPROMISE LINE WASUNCONSTITUTIONAL
- THIS MASSACHUSETTS FEDERALISTAND RIVAL OF THOMAS JEFFERSONWAS THE SECOND PRESIDENT OF THEUNITED STATES
- A PREDECESSOR TO THE REPUBLICANPARTY, THIS POLITICAL PARTYCALLED FOR BARRING SLAVERY INTHE WESTERN TERRITORIES AND FREEHOMESTEADS FOR WHITE FARMERS
- PROPOSED BY A KENTUCKY SENATOROF THE SAME NAME, THISCOMPROMISE CALLED FOR THE 36º 30'LINE TO BE EXTENDED TO THEPACIFIC OCEAN
- THIS TERM REFERS TO THE AMERICANIDEOLOGY THAT CALLED FORPREVENTING CATHOLIC EUROPEANSFROM SETTLING IN THE UNITEDSTATES
- THIS KENTUCKY NATIVE AND ILLINOISLAWYER RAN FOR PRESIDENT AS AREPUBLICAN IN 1860 ON A PLATFORMOF BARRING SLAVERY FROM THEWEST
- PASSED BY THE FEDERALISTCONGRESS IN 1798, THESE ACTSINCLUDED NEW POWERS TO DEPORTIMMIGRANTS WHILE MAKING ITILLEGAL TO CRITICIZE THEFEDERALIST-DOMINATEDGOVERNMENT
- IN OCTOBER 1859, HOPING TO INCITEA SLAVE REBELLION, THEABOLITIONIST JOHN BROWNCAPTURED A FEDERAL ARSENAL INTHIS VIRGINIA TOWN