The decision to permit freedom of religion, the decision to eliminate royalty and nobles, the decision to elevate women and free slaves, the decision to create a republic.  These choices are associated with what period of American history?

Lectures noted that despite its great size and wealth of resources, the Old South in 1860 housed only a tiny percentage of the nation’s industries.

This is the open market at Lagos, Portugal.   What happened here in the 1400s that is of some importance to European, colonial, and American history?

The United States added tremendous amounts of new land in 1803, with the Louisiana Purchase, and again in the 1840s, with the acquisition of Texas and the far west.  In 1845, newspaperman John O’Sullivan wrote that he believed it was God’s plan for the United States to cover all of North America.

Two times in American history, British army troops fled the battlefield under fire from American forces.    What were these two times?

In the 1700s, which gigantic war plunged the British government into severe debt and changed the relationship between the American colonies and Great Britain?

The Battle of Antietam includes the most violent day in American history.  One day of this battle killed 6,000 Americans and wounded 19,000 more.  

In the Civil War, Kentucky and Missouri, and Maryland, though powerful slave states, did not secede from the Union.

All this territory was acquired by the United States in what year, by what treaty?

In their secession documents, southern states repeatedly cited their concern over one issue as the reason they were leaving the Union.  This one issue was