The first American conflict to be fought primarily on foreign soil and the first in which American troops occupied a foreign capital was

Over the course of the war, the Union troops had stronger morale, but the Confederate troops were better supplied.

In 1860, Union forces destroyed the orchards and sheep of this tribe and forced 8,000 of their people to move to a new reservation, which is called

Harriet Beecher Stowe was most famous for running the Underground Railroad.

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

After Washington’s inauguration, he proclaimed liberty and the republican model of government was dependent on the success of America’s experiment in

Most Americans moved west as lone pioneers.

The plan at the Constitutional Convention that proposed creation of a bicameral legislature with representation in each house determined by each state’s population was the:

The “peculiar institution” of the South was

The Gadsden Purchase was a parcel of land the United States bought from France a few years before purchasing Alaska from Russia.