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Government with checks and balances as well as a separation of powers

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Limited government

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Establishing a balance of power between the three branches of government

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Checks and balances

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The president is indirectly elected by the people through this entity

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Electoral College

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Pseudonym of New York governor George Clinton

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Cato

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Essays compiled and published in May 1778

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Federalist Papers

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Insurrection of farmers against the courts in western Massachusetts

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Shay’s Rebellion

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A group of military officers that wanted to establish a new government

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Newburgh Conspiracy

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Resulted in the creation of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin

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Northwest Ordinance of 1787

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Greatest triumph of foreign affairs for America’s first government

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Treaty of Paris

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America’s first governing document

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Articles of Confederation

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Organized the executive branch into 3 departments

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George Washington

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America’s first secretary of the treasury

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Alexander Hamilton

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The first 10 amendments

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Bill of Rights

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Those who hold to a close reading of the Constitutional text

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Strict Constructionists

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Debt monetizing section of Hamilton’s report on public credit

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Funding

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When John Adams tried to squeeze as many new Supreme Court justices as possible before Jefferson took over

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Midnight Appointments

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Madison’s response to the Alien and Sedition Act

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Virginia Resolutions

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America’s somewhat humiliating peace negations with France

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XYZ Affair

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Looked to the future and not the past

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Washington’s Farewell Address

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Attempted to persuade America to take side with the French against the British

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Citizen Genét

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Organized 13 district courts, one per state

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Judiciary Act of 1789

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Introduced amendments to the Constitution to protect individual rights

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James Madison

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The national government’s take over of all state debts

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Assumption

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Claimed to the the true keepers of the Constitutional flame

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Federalists

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Viewed themselves as the last of line of defense between tyranny and Liberty
Democratic Republicans
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A of land int he Southwest that was bought from Mexico for $10 million
The Gadsden Purchase Chunk
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Mexican port city which was captured by General Scott and the Americans in less than 3 weeks
Vera Cruz
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Known as the "Pathfinder of the West"
John C. Fremont
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The climax and some violent phase of manifest destiny
The Mexican War
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Determined the final borders between Maine and Canada
Webster-Ashburton Treaty
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Agreement that spilt disputed territory between Canada and what is now Maine
Webster-Ashburton Treaty
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President nicknamed "Young Hickory"
James K. Polk
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The climax and most violent phase of Manifest Destiny
Mexican War
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Explored California and helped conquer it from Mexico for the U.S.
John C. Fremont
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Ended hostilities between Mexico and the U.S.
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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More land from Mexico in 1853
Gadsden Purchase
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America came close to defeat here but ultimately prevailed
Battle of Buena Vista
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Was the real head of the Whig party and tried to get President Tyler to submit to him
Henry Clay
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One of the heroes of Texas war for independence
Sam Houston
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Where Texans made a heroic last stand
The Alamo
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Where the spark that led to Civil War was ignited?
Fort Sumter
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The first president of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
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The Constitutional Union's candidate for president in the election of 1860
John Bell
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The group that supported John Brown's raid
The Secret Six
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Where John Brown's men killed 5 pro-slavery settlers
Pottawatomie Massacre
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For a time, it looked like the Whigs might be replaced by this party.
Know-Nothings
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Republican nominee for president in 1856
John C. Fremont
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When pro-slavery ruffians burned, looted, and destroyed a town in Kansas
The Sack of Lawrence
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A Supreme Court case in 1856 that only agitated the conflict over slavery
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
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Group of men that supported John Brown's plan for a slave revolt
Secret Six
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South Carolina's Declaration of Independence
The Ordinance of Secession
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Means leave the union
Secede
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A territory could still prohibit slavery by refusing to adopt laws establishing and protecting it
Freeport Doctrine
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The real successor to the Whig Party
Republican Party
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Whig candidate for president in 1848
Zachary Taylor
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After this Union victory, Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation
Antietam
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The Confederate victory at this battle came at a high price. General Stonewall Jackson was short by his own men and eventually died.
Battle of Chancellorsville
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Grant and the Union army technically won, but it was a costly victory. Each side suffered more than 10,000 casualties, both killed and wounded.
Battle of Shiloh
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A controversial incident in which the U.S. offended the British and narrowly avoided the, entering the war on the Confederate side.
Trent Affair
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Lincoln used this speech to eloquently praise the common courage and sacrifice of the soldiers of both the North and South
Gettysburg Address
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Americans did this so extra supplies could go to supporting the war effort
Rationing
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Skillfully directed a naval victory over the Japanese in the Battle of Midway
Chester Nimitz
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Commander of all American forces in the Far East
Douglas McArthur
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F.D.R.'s opponent in the presidential election of 1940
Wendell Willkie
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Nationalistic, militaristic totalitarian mass movement
Fascism
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Congress appropriated $7 billion to provide supplies for the embattled Allied nations
Lend-Lease Act
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Quite possibly the turning point of the war in the Pacific
Battle of Midway
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"The Desert Fox"
Erwin Rommel
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Commander of Operation Torch, and future U.S. President
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The invasion of Italy, beginning with Sicily (SA)
Operation Husky
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Name the dictators who rose to power in Italy and the Soviet Union in the 1920s and in Germany in the 1930s. (SA)
Italy-Benito Mussolini. Soviet Union-Joseph Stalin. Germany-Adolf Hitler
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Who was one of the leading spokesman for the isolationist America First Committees? (SA)
Charles Lindbergh
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In what region of France did the landings in Operation Overlord take place? (SA)
Normandy
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Who was the military commander of each of the two prongs of the Allied attack in the Pacific War? (SA)
General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz
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At their conference at Casablanca, where did FDR and Churchill agree to open another front against the Axis? (SA)
Italy

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