At its beginning, most Americans in both the North and the South believed the Civil War would be over quickly.

The commander of Texan forces seeking independence was

The majority of slaves in the American colonies

The United States was able to acquire Florida easily because of

Early public schools were promoted as means to teach white middle-class values to the children of the working poor.

Marriage was a common, although not a legal, institution among plantation slaves.

Small-scale southern farmers were often

In the aftermath of the French and Indian War, the British

The profession of engineering developed largely as a result of

The most serious crisis of George Washington’s presidency, leading to some calls for impeachment, was