The Battle of Antietam was particularly critical because it
a. inflated an already dangerous overconfidence among Southerners.
b. ended Lee's plan of invading the North.
c. delayed Lincoln's plan to announce the Emancipation Proclamation.
d. ensured the reelection of President Lincoln.
e. probably prevented intervention by Britain and France on behalf of the Confederacy.
e
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A) They were pardoned. B) They were tried in the midst of the anti-immigrant hysteria sweeping the country. C) Their trial exposed major flaws in the justice system. D) A majority of the population supported them.
What do the monumental earthworks and other archeological evidence uncovered at Cahokia and other Mississippian sites suggest about the rise and fall of that society?
What will be an ideal response?
Chartered companies were
a. private investors with trade monopolies who paid annual fees to France and England in colonies. b. maritime manufacturers of maps and charts. c. companies of missionaries and religious societies. d. groups of Amerindian investors who pooled money and resources. e. illegal in most European countries.
What was the Washingtonian Society?
A) an evangelical group that focused on converting the working classes to Christianity B) a group of Christian women who traveled the country preaching the evils of alcoholism C) a political faction that used the Constitution as a basis for their antislavery movement D) a temperance group whose members discussed their struggles with alcoholism E) a secret society that prompted many of the social and religious reforms during the 1800s