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What is a close alliance of sovereign states

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A confederation

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What would have only one house

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A unicameral congress

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What was written by Thomas Jefferson and proposed the creation of ten new states

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The ordinance of 1784

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What were the original us currency

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Continental dollars

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What was a gathering of Americas greatest minds, tasked with creating a new governing document

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Constitutional convention

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To settle the issue of how slaves should be counted, delegates established what ?

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The three fifths compromise

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Constitutional what ?,Changes to the constitution, are also an expression to the people’s sovereignty

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Amendments

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Alexander hamiltons pen name was ?

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Publis

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To prevent any group or individual from gaining too much power the founders designed the national government with the ?

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Separation of powers

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What was not well attended and only five states bothered to send in representatives

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Annapolis convention

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Without congressional approval, what president organized 3 departments in the executive branch

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George Washington

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The brilliant and ambitious person that was appointed to be Americas first secretary of treasury was who

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Alexander Hamilton

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What emerged in 1971 after gaining approval of 3/4ths of the states where the first 10 amendments and ?

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The bill of rights

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Who interpret the constitution as narrow as possible

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Strict constructionist

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Pursuing a middle course, president Washington said no to both republicans and Federalists and issued what in April 1973

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Proclamation of neutrality

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Who became the second president of the United States

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John Adams

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What increased the number of federal judges

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The judiciary act of 1801

18
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In washingtons what, he was looking not at the past but to the future

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Farewell address

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Who favored flexibility interpreting the constitution

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Loose constructionists

20
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Who was chosen to be the very first head of the state department

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Thomas Jefferson

21
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What is the idea that America was providentially ordained to posses the North American continent

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Manifest destiny

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Who was one of the most famous missionaries in the Oregon territory

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Narcissa Whitman

23
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The Mexican assault against the Alamo was led by

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Santa Ana

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what was the most important way for the settlers to go west

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The Oregon trail

25
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Who remained on president Tyler’s cabinet even after everyone else resigned

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Daniel Webster

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What proposed that the us should prohibit slavery in any territory acquired by Mexico

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The Wilmot proviso

27
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The residence of a territory should decide the status of slavery in their territory

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Popular sovereignty

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Free soil ,free speech, free labor, and free man was the slogan of what party

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Free soil party

29
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Supporting the compromise of 1850 the democratic nominee for president in 1852 was

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Franklin pierce

30
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To win southern support for his railroad Steven a Douglas proposed what act

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The Kansas Nebraska act

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According to the _ _ view, each state was largely an independent entity joined in a voluntary compact of union

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State rights

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The timely arrival of South Carolinian barnard bee and Virginia _ J _ helped the confederates with the first battle of the civil war

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Thomas J Jackson

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The confederacy for was the first to reveal a new weapon, the ?

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Iron Clad

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With general Johnston wounded, pre sediment Davis turned to Robert lee to command the army of

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Northern Virginia

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After the second _ of _, lee had cleared practically all of Virginia of federal forces

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Battle of Manassas

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The second bomb fell on _, and this led to the Japanese surrender

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Nagasaki

37
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The big three met at_ to plan the conclusion of the war in the pacific

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Potsdam

38
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Roosevelt tapped a little known senator from Missouri names _ _ for Vice President ?

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Harry Truman

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The _ of _ _ was the largest sea battle in history and a critical blow to Japanese naval and air forces

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Battle of Leyte golf

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Operation overload began on June 6, 1944 also known as

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D day

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