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What we have learned about modern humans from the Paleolithic era comes exclusively from archaeology work and written document from that age.

Northern attitudes toward free blacks can best be described as

Stephen A. Douglas proposed that the question of slavery in the Kansas-Nebraska Territory be decided by 

  Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin   

Eli Whitney was instrumental in the invention of the

What was a consequence of the growth in population that occurred in the American colonies in the early 1700s?

  Many Northerners were willing to allow Southern states to leave the Union until   

The North’s greatest strength in the Civil War was its 

For those Africans who were sold into slavery, the middle passage can best be described as

There has only been one species of Homo sapien to walk planet Earth in the past 30,000 years.