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The increase in cotton production was mostly generated by

The moral code of white southern males emphasized

During the Peninsular campaign of 1862,

The Iroquois League

The Second Bank of the United States was created in 1816 as a result of

Jefferson completed the Louisiana Purchase despite knowing that the Constitution did not grant the federal government the power to buy territory.

The Olive Branch Petition of 1775 urged King George III to negotiate for peace with his subjects in America.

One important advantage the South had over the North was that it

Mary Boykin Chesnut described slavery as “monstrous” because

In Worcester v. Georgia, the Supreme Court ruled that the Cherokee Nation was a “distinct political community,” in which Georgia law had no force.