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A leading abolitionist who was a former slave in Maryland

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Frederick Douglas

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A gov. Where the power is held by the people and exercised through elected representatives

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Republic sovereignty

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A person of foreign birth who become a us citizen is called

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Naturalized citizen

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System where supply and demand effect production and pricing is called ______?

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Free enterprise

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Tax on imported good

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Tariff

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War with our southern neighbor over a border dispute and expansion

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Mexican war

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After the French and Indian war, what 2 things enraged the colonists

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  • tax to repay debt

* proclamation of 1763

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Alexander Hamilton was the leader if which political party

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Federalist

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Another word for natural rights is

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Unalienable rights

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Battle that ended the American rev./ Cornwallis surrendered

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Battle of Yorktown

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Colonial leader who believed in equality under god and founded a town for Quakers

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William Penn

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Dividing the power amazing the three branches is called

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Desperation of power

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Document to declare the reasons for the colonies to break from England

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Deceleration if independence

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Evidence produced by someone who participated in the event or lived during the time period is called a ____ source

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Secondary

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First American gov. (Document) after independence

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Articles of confederation

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Black slave who volunteered to fight against the British during the American revolution. He was a spy for the Americans

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James armstead

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Jewish immigrant who played an important role in financing the American revolution

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Haym solam

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A patriotic leader who was an original son of liberty

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Samuel Adams

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A senator from Tennessee who was known as the great compromiser

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Henry clay

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Spanish governor of Louisiana who helped fight the British during the American Revolution

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Bernard galves

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An expert in British law

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William Blackstone

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He was an inventor, writer, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence and ambassador France

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Ben Franklin

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He was elected president of the Confederate states of America

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Jefferson Davis

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He was known as the father of our country and the leader of the Continental Army

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George Washington

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He was the first African-American senator from Mississippi

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Hiram Rhodes

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Was the first Supreme Court Justice

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John jay

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He was the Frenchman who volunteered to serve in the American Revolution

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Marquis deleyette

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He was the leader of the British during the American Revolution

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King George the third

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28
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He worked for the favor for the south

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John Calhoun

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How did the war of 1812 bring economic changes in the US

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Industrial revolution which helped them make their own goods

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30
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How is the constitution changed

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Amendments

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In what year did the Civil War start? What year did it end?

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It started in 1861 and ended in 1865

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In what year was Louisiana purchase made

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1803

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Individuals who played a significant role in the fighting for independence from Britain and the creation for a new Government are called

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Founding fathers

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Name two arguments by the anti-Federalist not to ratify the constitution

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  • Lacked a Bill of Rights

* they were afraid of a strong central government

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Name two weaknesses of articles of Confederation

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  • Weak central government

* no rights or tax

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Name 3 Leaders of the early women’s rights movement

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• Elizabeth Caddy Stanton • Susan B Monroe • Lucretia Mott

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Name three major causes of the war of 1812

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  • Impressment of US soldiers
  • violations of US rights
  • British support of Native Americans
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38
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Name three regions of the 13 colonies

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Middle, Southern, New England

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39
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Putting the needs of the community before your own interest is called

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Civic virtue

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40
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Religious freedom, fleeing persecution, profit, land, etc. are reasons for what

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Coming to America

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Sharing of power between local and national government is called

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Federalism

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She was a playwright, a friend of Abigail Adams, and an anti-Federalist because the Constitution lacked a Bill of Rights

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Mercy Otis Warren

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43
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She worked for prison reform and help for the mentally ill

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Doretha Dix

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The agreement to have two houses with representation in one based on the population and equal representation in the other is called___, And later became known as the____

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1) connect plain

2) great compromise

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45
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The amendment abolished slavery

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13th

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46
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The amendment that defined citizenship

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14th

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47
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The amendment that game Blackmun the right to vote

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15th

48
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The amendment they gave women the right to vote

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19th

49
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The announcement that slaves and rebel territories were to be set free was called what

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Emancipation Proclamation

50
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The central theme for that conflict between the first two political parties with how much__ the federal government should have

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Power

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The cornerstone of justice and law is a document that first limited the power of the king. It was written in 1215

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Magna Carta

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The document signed by the pilgrims that was an early first step toward self-government was called

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Mayflower compact

53
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The economic system were colonies are set up to make it the mother country Rich Is called what

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Mercantilism

54
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The first battle of the American Revolution “shot heard around the world”

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Lexington and Concorde

55
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The first representative government for the English colonies was called what

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House of burgesses

56
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The first written constitution in the colonies was what

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Fundamental orders of Connecticut

57
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The forced removal of Cherokee and other Native Americans from their southeastern lands of the lands west of the Mississippi River was called what

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Trail of tears also known as the Indian removal act

58
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The hero of the fledgling American Navy during the revolution. He said I have not yet begun to fight

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John Paul Jones

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The idea of the Constitution and laws can define the limits of those in power is called

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Limited government or rule of law

60
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The idea that the people should vote to decide key issues

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Popular sovereignty

61
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The idea of the Supreme Court can declare laws unconstitutional

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Judicial review

62
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The idea that the US should extend the Atlantic to the Pacific was called what

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Manifest destiny

63
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The movement to abolish slavery in the US was called

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The abolitionists

64
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The movement to have little or no drinking in the US

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Temperance

65
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. Find the Civil War where the defeated southern states were rebuilt was called

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Reconstruction

66
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The president at the time the release of the Monro doctrine

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James Monro

67
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The rapid changed machine made goods is

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Industrial Revolution

68
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The Supreme Court case but decided the slaves word not citizens and allow the Allstate could vote whether or not to have slavery was called

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Dred Scott vs Sanford

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The system where planter owns large tracks of land and use cheap labor of growth and harvest cash crops is called what

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Plantation systems

70
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The turning point of the Revolutionary war

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Battle of Saratoga

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These laws establish the principles for orderly expansion to the west/ how a territory could become a state

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Northwest ordinance

72
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Act granted land to each state to set aside for agriculture and mechanical colleges

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Merrill act

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This act granted land to individual Native Americans

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Don’s act

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This is the agreement which the United States acquired California and the new México territory from Mexico

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Mexican session

75
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This is the tree that was signed in the war

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Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago

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This was the court case that said only the federal government has authority of the Native Americans not the state government

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Worcestor vs Georgia

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Thomas Jefferson was the order of which political party

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Democratic Republican

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To have two houses in the legislative branch is called

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Bicameral

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Three changes in the life of US citations came about as a result of industrialization

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People move to cities, more machine products, lower prices of goods

80
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What are four characteristics of this economic system

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Profit, compotion, private ownership, economic freedom

81
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What are the essays called the written to achieve ratification

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Federalist papers

82
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What are the first 10 amendments to the Constitution called

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Bill of Rights

83
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What do these people have in common? Grimke sisters, Sojourner truth, Harriet Beecher, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass

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Abolitionist

84
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What happened to Abraham Lincoln shortly after the war

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Murdered

85
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What invention help spur the growth of slavery in the south

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Cottongin

86
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What is the primary purpose of the First Amendment

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To protect people’s rights

87
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What phrase expressed how the colonists felt about the tax

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Taxation without representation

88
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What process created steel and allowed for the Industrial Revolution to surge forward

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That’s more process because everyone could probably use steel for anything

89
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What region the United States most opposed tariff prior to the Civil War

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South

90
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What Supreme Court case affirmed that they constitutionalist the supreme law of the land

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McCullough VS Maryland

91
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What Supreme Court case established the idea of judicial review

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Marberry VS Madison

92
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What Supreme Court case gave the federal government the power to regulate interstate commerce

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Gibbons VS ogalon

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What system was set by the Constitution to ensure that no one Branch become too powerful

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Checks and balances

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What was the foreign-policy statement that said Europe could no longer colonizer meddle in the affairs of the Western hemispheres

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Monro doctrine

95
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What was the tree that ended the American Revolution

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Treaty of Paris

96
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What were the first and second great awakening

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Religious movements

97
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When was the Declaration of Independence signed

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1776

98
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When was the first English colony in America established

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1607

99
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Where did Lee’s final surrender takes place

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Appomattox Courthouse

100
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Where was the convention to revise articles of Confederation took place

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Philadelphia convention

101
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Where was the first shot fired during the Civil War

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Fort Sumner

102
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Which two battles signaled the beginning of the end for the Confederacy

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1) Vicksburg 2) Gettysburg

103
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Who commented an act of civil disobedience by refusing to pay tax to protest the Mexican war

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Henry David thorough

104
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Who invented the steamboat what was the first one called

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Robert Fulton and Clarmont

105
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Who invented the cotton gin

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Eli Whitney

106
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Who published the newspaper called the Liberator

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William Garrison

107
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Who is known as the father of the Constitution

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James Madison

108
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Who’s the general who ultimately led the union to victory in the Civil War

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Ulysses S Grant

109
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Who is the leader of the South’s army of Northern Virginia

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Robert E Lee

110
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Who is the president during the Civil War

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Abraham Lincoln

111
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Who is the primary advocate for the education reform

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Forest man

112
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Who wrote the Declaration of Independence

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Thomas Jefferson

113
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Why did South Carolina went to cancel Tariffs

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Nullification crisis

114
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Why did the citizens oppose tariffs

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It made prices of goods higher

115
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Why is freedom of speech and press important in a democratic society

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So everyone has a voice

116
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Are the Cherokee and other Native Americans moved

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White Americans wanted their land in the west

117
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What were the economic differences between regions in the US

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Geography and climate

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