Y's

Question 1

Yeoman Farmers

Answer 1

in the second half of the nineteenth century, the largest group of Southern whites, who were independent small farmers, working their land with their family, sometimes side-by-side with one or two slaves, to produce their own food, with sometimes enough surplus to sell for a little extra cash

Question 2

Yorktown

Answer 2

the site in Virginia at which General George Washington, with the help of French army and naval forces, trapped British General Cornwallis and forced him surrender in 1781

Question 3

Young America

Answer 3

after being elected in 1852, President Franklin Pierce’s aggressive program of foreign economic and territorial expansion, which he pursued in part to express the nation’s hope that a new era of sectional peace was beginning and to distract the nation’s attention from the slavery issue

Question 4

Brigham Young

Answer 4

the founder of the Mormon republic of Deseret who openly preached and practiced polygamy; he was made territorial governor of Utah after Deseret’s annexation by the United States as part of the Mexican Cession