Because England still believed in bullionism, Parliament passed the Currency Act to forbid colonists from paying debts with nor printing paper money. Instead, colonists were supposed to only pay in gold and silver.

Who was the primary general of the Union before Ulysses S. Grant took over?

Whose March to the Sea included attacks on Southern citizens to break morale, burning Atlanta, and capturing Savannah?

Which of the following was the primary way the French profited in the New World during the 1600s and 1700s?

Although the phrase “no taxation without representation” has become common in American culture, colonists were actual agree about ____________.

After the Panic of 1837, many American traveled west via ____________?

Uncle Tom’s Cabin was a book that caused the Civil War because it presented an accurate depiction of slavery.

The first major battle of the Civil War that proved the conflict would be long and bloody was ____________.

Who raided Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, in 1859 to start a slave uprising, was capture and executed for treason, and symbolize a martyr for abolitionism by the North?

John Brown’s first claim to the fame was killing slave owners on Potawatomie Creek, which sparks cries of ____________ in Congress.