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An insurrection of farmers against the courts in western Massachusetts

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Shays rebellion

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

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The new burgh conspiracy

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

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North west Ordinance of 1787

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The greatest triumph of foreign affairs for Americas first government

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Treaty of Paris

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Americas first governing document

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Articles of confederation

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He organized the executive branch in 3 departments

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George Washington

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Americas first secretary of the treasury

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Alexander Hamilton

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The first 10 amendments

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The bill of rights

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Those who hold to a close reading of the constitutional text

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Strict constructionist

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The debt monetizing session of hamiltons report on public credit

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Funding

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When Adams tried to squeeze in 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 acts

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Virginia resolutions

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13
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Americas somewhat humiliating peace negotiations with France

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The xyz affair

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14
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Look 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 gane

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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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18
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The national governments takeover of all state debts

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Assumption

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proclaimed to be the true keepers of the constitutional flame

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Federalists

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They viewed themselves as the last line of defense between tyranny and Liberty

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Democratic republicans

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21
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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 the New York governor George Clinton

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Cato

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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 the New York governor George Clinton

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Cato

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A chunk of land in the south west that was bought for Mexico for 10 million

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Gadsden purchase

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Mexican port city which was captured by General Scott and the American in less than 3 weeks

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Vera Cruz

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Known as the path finder of the west

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John c Fremont

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32
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The climax and the most violent phase of destiny

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The Mexican war

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33
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Determined the final borders between Maine and Canada

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Webster ashburton treaty

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The agreement that disputed territory between Canada and what is now Maine

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The Webster ashburtan treaty

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The preselected nicknames old hickory

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Jame k pulck

36
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The climax and most violent phase of manifest destiny

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Mexican war

37
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Explored California and helped conquer it from Mexico for the US

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John c Fremont

38
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Ended hostilities between Mexico and the US

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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

39
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More land from Mexico in 1853

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Gadsden purchase

40
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America came close to defeat her but ultimately prevailed

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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

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Henry clay

42
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One of the heroes of Texas was for independence

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Sam Houston

43
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Where Texans made a heroic last stand

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The Alamo

44
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Where the spark that led to the civil war was ignited

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Fort sumpter

45
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The first president of the confederacy

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Jefferson Davis

46
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The constitutional unions candidate for president of the election of 1860

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John bell

47
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The group that supported John Browns raid

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The secret six

48
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Where John Browns men killed five pro slavery settlers

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Pattawatomie massacre

49
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For a time it looked like the Whigs might be replaced by this party also known as the American party

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No nothing’s

50
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Republican nominee for president in 1856

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John c Fremont

51
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When pro slavery ruffians burned, looted, and destroyed a town in Kansas

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The sack of Lawrence

52
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A Supreme Court case in 1856 that only agitated the conflict over slavery

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Dreads Scott vs. Sandford

53
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The group of man that supported John Browns plan for a slave revolt

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Secret six

54
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South Carolinas Declaration of Independence

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The ordinance of secession

55
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Means leave the union

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Sucede

56
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A territory could still prohibit slavery by refusing to adopt laws establishing and protecting it

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Free port doctrine

57
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The real successor to the Whig party

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Republican Party

58
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Whig candidate for president in 1848

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Zachary Taylor

59
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After this union victory, Lincoln announced the emancipation proclamation

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Antietam

60
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The confederate victory at this battle came at a high price. General stonewall Jackson was shot by his own men and eventually died

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Battle of Chancellorsville

61
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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

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Gettysburg address

62
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A controversial incident in which the US offended the British and narrowly avoided them entering the war on the confederate side

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Trent affair

63
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Americans did this so extra supplies could go to supporting the war effort

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Rationing

64
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Skillfully directed a naval victory over the Japanese in the battle of midway

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Chester Nimitz

65
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Commander of all American forces in the Far East

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Douglas MacArthur

66
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FDR’s opponent in the presidential election of 1940

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Wendell Willkie

67
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A nationalistic militaristic totalitarian mass movement

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Fascism

68
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The invasion of Italy, beginning with Sicily

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Operation husky

69
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Commander of operation torch, and future us president

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Dwight d Eisenhower

70
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The desert fox

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Erwin Rommel

71
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Quite possibly the turning point of the war in the pacific

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Battle of midway

72
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Congress appropriated $7 billion to provide supplies for the embattled allied nations

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Lend lease act

73
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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

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Benito Mussolini- Italy
Joseph Stalin- Soviet Union
Germany

74
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Who was one of the leading spokesman for the isolationist America first committees

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Charles Lindbergh

75
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In what region of France did the landings in operation overload take place

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Normandy

76
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Who was the military commander of each of the two prongs of the allied attack in the pacific war

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General Douglas MacArthur

Admiral Chester Nimitz

77
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At their conference at Casablanca, where did FDR and Churchill agree to open another front against the Axis

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Italy

78
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Isolationist sentiment was one of the forces that pushed the United States into world war 2

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False

79
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Italy conquered Egypt in the 1930s

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False

80
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After Japan seized French Indochina, FDR caved in and removed the US oil embargo on them

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False

81
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The battle of the bulge was hitlers last gamble to win the war in Western Europe

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True

82
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Okinawa was captured by American forces and served as a launching point for the final assault on Japan

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True

83
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Operation torch took place in North Africa

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True

84
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Several states set a victory speed of 35 mph during work war 2 to conserve gasoline

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True

85
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Anschluss was the union of Germany and Austria

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True

86
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Kyoto was the other Japanese city to be destroyed by a US A-bomb

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False

87
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According to the storyline, captain America served in ww2

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True

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