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At the Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, in December 1862,

The device invented by Samuel Morse in the 1830s that sent messages over electrical wires was called the

A strong immunity to European diseases strengthened Indian resistance to the conquistadors.

In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court ruled that African-Americans had no rights that whites were compelled to recognize.

Henry David Thoreau held the view that people were being stifled by modern society, and trapped in boring, dead-end jobs by their obsessive desire to earn money.

By the time of the Declaration of Independence, the United States had already become larger than Great Britain, Spain, and France combined.

Most Americans moved west as lone pioneers.

President James Madison favored a system of national economic incentives for manufacturers, a protective tariff, a new national bank, and federal financing of roads and canals that came to be known as

During the Revolution, American Indians were divided in allegiance.

Following the Boston Tea Party, Parliament imposed restrictions on Massachusetts that included closing the port of Boston, curtailing town meetings, and allowing soldiers to be lodged in people’s houses. These restrictions were called: