What event prompted Lincoln to announce the Emancipation Proclamation?

a) the Battle of Antietam
b) the fall of Fort Sumter
c) his reelection in 1864
d) the Battle of Gettysburg


Answer: a

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The second Ku Klux Klan controlled state governments in

A) ?Indiana. B) ?Colorado. C) ?Oregon. D) ?Oklahoma. E) ?All of these are correct.

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In his Seventh of March speech, Daniel Webster

a. attacked Henry Clay's compromise proposals. b. called for a new, more stringent fugitive-slave law as a political concession to the South. c. advocated a congressional ban on slavery in all the western territories. d. became a hated figure in the South. e. All of these choices are correct.

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Describe the significance France played in the American Revolution.

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The Platt Amendment stipulated the conditions for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from __________

A) Guam B) Puerto Rico C) Philippines D) Cuba

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