Explain the crisis over Kansas aka "Bleeding Kansas"
What will be an ideal response?
New territory near Nebraska and Missouri was split into 2 territories: Iowa (free) and Kansas(slave)
Kansas-Nebraska Act: caning of Charles Sumner (beating over controversy)
Kansas had 2 territorial governments- one opposed slavery and the other supported it
Attacks began- it was a territorial civil war
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In response to the Holocaust, the United States
A) accepted more Jewish refugees than any other nation. B) bombed railroads used to carry victims to concentration camps. C) planned to attack concentration camps from the air as soon as practical. D) opened its borders to all European Jews. E) assumed that news of the Final Solution was propaganda until soldiers began to liberate the camps.
A primary reason for the increase in federal debt between 1980 and 1996 was what?
What will be an ideal response?
Discuss the impact of the Revolutionary War on the lives of Americans.
What will be an ideal response?
Elias Howe's invention of __________ in 1846 revolutionized the garment industry
a. the sewing machine b. overalls c. blue denim d. the zipper e. the iron to press clothing