The most important territorial acquisition in the decade following the Civil War was ________.

Even under ideal conditions, the journey on the Oregon Trail took about ________.

The victory at ________ gave the Union control of the Mississippi River in 1863.

During the 1840s ________.

The significant outcome of the presidential election of 1876 was that it ________.

America’s first large-scale, planned industrial city for the purpose of textile manufacturing was ________.

Which of the following directly precipitated John Brown’s abolitionist antics?

John Blassingame concluded the following about slave personality types:

Which region experienced the sharpest degree of changes due to industrialization?

In the controversial Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court declared that ________.