Describe the doctrine of Manifest Destiny. Why did it arise in the 1840s?
What will be an ideal response?
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
The Chesapeake Affair of 1807 ________
A) violated American sovereignty B) forced the French to rescind the Berlin Decree C) damaged the British navy D) had little effect on Anglo-American relations E) influenced the Americans to support the French
How did both the Southern states that seceded and Abraham Lincoln use the Constitution to make their respective arguments for and against secession?
What will be an ideal response?
What is true about southern economic redevelopment?
A. Unlike the North, southern governments became notorious for corruption, which explains the skyrocketing public debt. B. Republican-dominated Reconstruction governments sought to encourage southern industry. C. One success of the postwar South was in laying as much railroad track as the rest of the nation combined. D. Northerners known as "scalawags" came south to exploit the South's economic vulnerability.