This 1785 act was passed by congress to raise money through the sale of land in the largely unmapped territory west of the original colonies acquired from britain after the revolutionary war.

How different might ayuba's experiences of slavery have been had he been sold in jamaica rather than maryland?

The loss of two major sources of income crippled the french economy right before the onset of the great depression what were they? wine industry foreign tourism wool manufacturing war reparations

Read the following passage. the early mill girls were of different ages. some were not over ten years old; a few were in middle life, but the majority were between the ages of sixteen and twenty-five. the very young girls were called "doffers." they "doffed," or took off, the full bobbins from the spinning frames, and replaced them with empty ones. based on the passage, early mill girls were mostly young. were mostly middle aged. were of a variety of ages. were mostly children.