Which historic document granted freedom to enslaved peoples living in the Confederacy?
Which historic document granted freedom to enslaved peoples living in the Confederacy?
Emancipation Proclamation
Bill of RIghts
Monroe Doctrine
Articles of Confederation
use a b c or d
a. Emancipation Proclamation
What was the main goal of the Women's Rights Movement after the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848?
What was the main goal of the Women's Rights Movement after the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848?
To gain the right to vote for women
To increase the pay of women workers
To allow women to join labor unions
to expand the number of women managers
a. To gain the right to vote for women
What was an important effect of the Transcontinental Railroad on the United States?
What was an important effect of the Transcontinental Railroad on the United States?
It brought about unrest in Kansas and Nebraska over the future of slavery
It led to the passage of the Indian Removal Act, forcing Indigenous tribes to move west of the Mississippi River.
It opened the Great Plains to western settlers
It led to the Proclamation Line, closing western lands to settlement
c. It opened the Great Plains to western settlers
Americans sought to obtain control of New Orleans in 1803 so that –
Americans sought to obtain control of New Orleans in 1803 so that –
Western farmers could ship goods down the Mississippi River
Western ranchers could drive cattle to railroad stops
Miners could reach California easier
Western farmers could ship goods through the Erie Canal
a. Western farmers could ship goods down the Mississippi River
“Long time we travel on way to new land. People feel bad when they leave Old Nation. Women cry and made sad wails. Children cry and many men cry, and all look sad like when friends die, but they say nothing and just put heads down and keep on go towards West. Many days pass and people die very much.”
—A Cherokee account from The Oklahoman, 1929
The above quote from a member of the Cherokee Nation is most likely the result of -
“Long time we travel on way to new land. People feel bad when they leave Old Nation. Women cry and made sad wails. Children cry and many men cry, and all look sad like when friends die, but they say nothing and just put heads down and keep on go towards West. Many days pass and people die very much.”
—A Cherokee account from The Oklahoman, 1929
The above quote from a member of the Cherokee Nation is most likely the result of -
The Indian Removal Act
The Twelfth Amendment
Missouri Compromise
Worcester v. Georgia
The Indian Removal Act
“In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourself the aggressors…
"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have been strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.”
-- Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address
To whom was this part of Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address directed?
“In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourself the aggressors…
"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have been strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.”
-- Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address
To whom was this part of Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address directed?
Southern plantation owners
Northern factory workers
Southern secessionist states
Northern military members