The Louisiana purchase is an example of how the political geography of North America was changed by the French war with the British--since Napoleon sold the land to fund the war.
The answer was the south could not provide supplies for the army. sherldan appalled a " scorched earth" campaign in the valley. he had burned and destroyed anything that can be use of by the rebels. though general Jubal early launched a surprise attack that caught the union off guard, sherldan rallied the men and turned the tables defeating early and the Shenandoah valley was close to the south.
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The correct answer is: "sweatshops".
The term sweatshop is used in a pejorative manner to describe a working place with socially unacceptable, and even risky working conditions. These can involve danger, underpayment, etc. Even child labor can be found there.
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The correct answer is: "African Americans who fled the South after the end of Reconstruction"
The terms exodusters is used to refer to African Americans who migrated in 1879, after the Civil War, from the Southern states located along the Mississippi River until Kansas.
As we look into the open fire for our fancies, so we are apt to study the dim past for the wonderful and sublime, forgetful of the fact that the present is a constant romance, and that the happenings of to-day which we count of little importance are sure to startle somebody in the future, and engage the pen of the historian, philosopher, and poet.
Accustomed as we are to think of the vast steppes of Russia and Siberia as alike strange and boundless, and to deal with the unknown interior of Africa as an impenetrable mystery, we lose sight of a locality in our own country that once surpassed all these in virgin grandeur, in majestic solitude, and in all the attributes of a tremendous wilderness.
