Week 27 Review Flashcards
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President of the Confederacy:
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Jefferson Davis
2
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Law that forbade colonists from building boats and required all goods to be carried on English ships:
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the Navigation Act
3
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Head of the law-enforcing branch:
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President
4
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Battle that changed the course of the Civil War:
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Battle of Gettysburg
5
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The Viking credited as the first European to visit North America in 1000 A.D.:
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Lief Ericson
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Law that inducted Maine into the Union as a free state and Missouri as a slave state and said no slavery will be allowed in the Lousiana Territory avoe the 36° 30° parallel:
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the Missouri Compromise
7
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The right of women to vote:
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women’s suffrage
8
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Commander-in-chief of the Confederate Army:
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Robert E. Lee
9
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Battle during which one hundred fifty Texans fought a Mexican army of four thousand:
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Battle of the Alamo
10
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First state to secede from the Union:
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South Carolina
11
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Those who opposed slavery:
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abolitionists
12
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System of secretly transporting slaves to Canada:
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the Underground Railroad
13
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American general who defeated Santa Anna:
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Zachary Taylor
14
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Traitor who plotted to give up the fort at West Point:
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Benedict Arnold
15
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Financed Columbus’s first voyage:
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King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain
16
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Columbus Discoverd America in:
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1492
17
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Men who were willing to vote for anyone who paid them:
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scalawags
18
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“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
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Nathan Hale
19
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“That man has an ax to grind.”
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Benjamin Franklin
20
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Government established by the states that seceded from the Union:
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Confederacy
21
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Volunteer soldiers ready at a moment’s notice:
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minutemen
22
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Riders sent to warn Charlestownand Lexinton of the coming British army:
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Paul Revere and William Dawes
23
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Date of the Emancipation Proclamation:
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January 1, 1863
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Battle fought after the War of 1812 had ended:
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Battle of New Orleans
25
Wilson's idea for sustained world peace:
The League of Nations
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First lasting English colony:
Jamestown
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American general who captured Mexico City:
Winfield Scott
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Document that established a central government for the United States:
the Articles of Confederation
29
Men from the North who took office in the South without having land in the South:
carpetbaggers
30
"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!"
Who said it?
General William Prescott
31
War between France and England in America:
the French and Indian War
32
The original name given to WWI:
The Great War
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Date of Boston Massacre:
1770
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"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."
George Washington
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Massachusetts Senator known as one of the greatest orators in the history of the U.S.:
Daniel Webster
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Short civil war in Virginia during which Jamestown was seized:
Bacon's Rebellion
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Men hired by Jefferson to explore the new territory:
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
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First president of the United States:
George Washington
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Native chief who led war against settlers in the Indiana Territory:
Tecumseh
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"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!"
What was the occasion?
Battle of Bunker HIll
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Puritans that left the Anglican Chruch altogether:
Separatists
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Borderline seperating Pennsylvania and Maryland:
Mason-Dixon Line
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Event during which Washington surprised and captured the Hessians:
crossing of the Delaware
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United States national motto and meaning:
E pluribus unum- One out of many
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Protectore of Engalnd who established the Navigation Act:
Oliver Cromwell
46
Document that signified the end of the War of 1812:
Treaty of Ghent
47
"We have met the enemy and they are ours."
Who said it?
Oliver Perry
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Location of the first shot fired in the Civil War:
Fort Sumter
49
First form of representative government in America, established in Virginia:
The House of Burgesses
50
Document that signified the official end of the Revolutionary War:
Second Treaty of Paris
51
Date America enters WWI:
1917
52
"Perhaps so; but I shall have the honor of presiding at that dinner."
What was the occasion?
Battle of New Orleans, in response to a boast from a British officer that he was going to eat his Christmas dinner in New Orleans.
53
American pioneer who conquered California:
John C. Fremont
54
Land granted to William Penn:
Pennsylvania
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The agreement that establihsed a form of government for the pilgrims:
Mayflower Compact
56
Native Americans who aided the Pilgrims:
Samoset and Squanto
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Document that signified the end of the French and Indian War:
the Treaty of Paris
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National Socialist German Workers' Party
Nazi Party (Nazis)
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Inventor of the cotton gin:
Eli Whitney
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Actor who assassinated President Lincoln:
John Wilkes Booth
61
French and Indian War dates:
1754-1763
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"Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable."
Daniel Webster
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"I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death."
Patrick Henry
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"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Dates of WWI (The Great War)
1914-1918
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Inventor of the telegraph:
Samuel Morse
67
General who fought the Sioux at Big Horn:
George A. Custer
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Date of the Battle at Fort Sumter:
April 12, 1861
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Date of the Constitution:
March 4, 1789
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Event that led to America declaring war with Spain:
explosion of the Maine
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Name the thirteen original colonies:
1. Virginia
2. Massachusetts
3. New Hampshire
4. New York
5. Maryland
6. Connecticut
7. Rhode Island
8. North Carolina
9. South Carolina
10. New Jersey
11. Pennsylvania
12. Delaware
13. Georgia
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Oldest city in the mainland of the United States:
St. Augustine, Florida
73
War fought to free American trade and earn the respect of other nations:
War of 1812
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"I have not yet begun to fight."
Who said it?
John Paul Jones
75
Slave who appealed to the Supreme Court for his freedom:
Dred Scott
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Former slave who led over 300 slaves to freedom:
Harriet Tubman
77
American naval officer who did great damage to the British navy during hte Revolutionary War:
John Paul Jones
78
Head of the colony in Jamestown:
Captian John Smith
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Archduke of Austria-Hungary killed by a Serbian revolutionary:
Franz Ferdinand
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Father of the Constitution:
James Madison
81
R. W. Emerson describes the first battle as:
"the shot heard round the world"
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Bill that inducted California as a free state and allowed the Utah and New Mexico territories to choose whether or not they would be free or slave states:
the Compromise of 1850
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Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin:
Harriet Beecher Stowe
84
Date of surrender at Appomattox
April 9, 1865
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English Sailor who discovered Cape Cod:
John Cabot
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Two competing forces in WWI:
Allies: Great Britain, France, Russia, China, Greece, Japan, Belgium, Italy (from 1915), and United States (from 1917) Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire
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Place where Lee surrendered to Grant:
Appomattox Courthouse
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General at Bunker HIll:
William Prescott
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First English colony in America, which disappeared:
Roanoke
90
Harsh document drafted at the peace conference after WWI
The Versailles Peace Settlement/Treaty of Versailles
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"Don't give up the ship!"
What was the occasion?
naval battle in War of 1812
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Final battle of the Revolutionary War:
Yorktown
93
General who captured Quebec:
James Wolfe
94
"Speak softly and carry a big stick."
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
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The three men who met together to draft the peace treaty after WWI and the countries they represented:
1. Woodrow Wilson- United States 2. David Lloyd George- Great Britain 3. Georges Clemenceau- France
96
Even in Boston during which British soldiers opened fire on unarmed colonists:
Boston Massacre
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Head of the law-making branch:
Congresss
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First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court:
John Jay
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First time delegates from all the colonies met to discuss the rights of American colonists:
First Continental Congress
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Axis dictators at the beginning of WWII:
Soviet Union- Joseph Stalin Italy- Benito Mussolini Japan- Emperor Hirohito Germany- Adolf Hitler
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Framework for the government of the United States:
the Constitution
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Date of the Louisiana Purchase
1803
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European credited with the discovery of America:
Christopher Columbus
104
Head of the Supreme Court:
Chief Justice
105
War between France and England in Europe:
the Seven Years' War
106
First Continental Congress:
September 1774
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"Perhaps so; but I shall have the honor of presiding at that dinner."
Who said it?
Andrew Jackson
108
Law passed by South Carolina in reaction to Congress' attempt to place a high tariff on foreign goods:
the Nullification Act
109
The original inhabitants of this continent:
Native Americans
110
Head of the law-interpreting branch:
Supreme Court
111
War that forced Spain to give up all control of Cuba, Puerto Rico,and the Philippines:
Spanish-American War
112
Law-interpreting branch:
Judicial
113
Land purchased by Jefferson from Emperor Napoleaon:
Louisiana Purchase
114
Land purchased from Mexico in the West for building train routes to California:
the Gadsden Purchase
115
Name three heroes in the Battle of the Alamo:
Sam Houston, Davy Crockett, William Travis
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Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army:
George Washington
117
Event during which Americans dressed as natives and dumped tea in the harbor:
Boston Tea Party
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First English sailor to circle the globe:
Sir Fancis Drake
119
Date of Boston Tea Party:
1773
120
Governor of the Indiana Territory who defeated the feared Native chief:
William Henry Harrison
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Who establised the colony?
Sir Walter Raleigh
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Inventor of the electric lightbulb:
Thomas Edison
123
Date of the Battle of Gettysburg:
July 1-3, 1863
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French nobleman who served int he American army:
Marquis de Lafayette
125
Wrote the first dictionary in America:
Noah Webster
126
Treaty that ended the Mexican war and gave the United States New Mexico and what was called Upper California:
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
127
Movement of many settlers to California in hopes of becoming rich:
the Gold Rush
128
King of Portugal who suggested dit was possible to sail around Africa:
Henry the Navigator
129
Five causes of the Revolutionary War:
1. trade and navigation laws
2. stamp act
3. Townshend Acts
4. Boston Massacre
5. the Five Intolerable Acts
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Three brances of the Amercian government established by the Constitution:
Legislative, Executive, Judicial
131
Land purchased by the Dutch man Minuit for about twenty-four dollars' worth of trinkets:
Manhattan Island
132
Date of the Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776
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Wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner" while held captive on a British ship:
Francis Scott Key
134
Revolt that demonstrated the need for a stronger central government:
Shays' Rebellion
135
Battles of Lexinton and Concord
April 19, 1775
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"To the victors belong the spoils."
Who said it?
Andrew Jackson
137
"I have not yet begun to fight."
What was the occasion?
naval battle with British
138
Battle that was the turning point for the Revolutionary War:
Saratoga
139
"If I can ever hit that thing, I'll hit it hard!
Who said it?
Abraham Lincoln
140
Date of the Gold Rush:
1849
141
Famous American naval officers who fought in the War of 1812:
Captain James Lawrence and Oliver H. Perry
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Act of President Lincoln that declared all slaves free in the Confederate States:
Emancipation Proclamation
143
Era of hardship initiated by the crash of the stock market:
the Great Depression
144
Union ironclad that defeated the confederate ironclad:
Monitor
145
Date of the Second Treaty of Paris:
September 3, 1783
146
President during WWI:
Woodrow Wilson
147
Revolutionary battle lost by Americans but considered a victory:
Battle of Bunker Hill
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Date of The Mexican War:
1846-1848
149
Chief frustration of American colonists:
taxation without representation
150
Foreign policy that forbade European countries from establishing colonies in North or South America and told them not to meddle in American affairs:
the Monroe Doctrine
151
General of the Mexican army:
Santa Anna
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First battles of the Revolutionary War:
Lexington and Concord
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Date of the War of 1812:
1812-1814
154
"If I can ever hit that thing, I'll hit it hard!
What was the occasion?
speaking about slavery
155
Two bodies of Congress:
House of Representatives and the Senate
156
Event that bankrupted the American economy, culminating in Black Tuesday:
Stock Market Crash of 1929
157
"Don't give up the ship!"
Who said it?
Captain James Lawrence
158
"We have met the enemy and they are ours."
What was the occasion?
naval battle in the war of 1812
159
"To the victors belong the spoils."
What was the occasion?
Andrew Jackson had won the election and given offices to all his friends.
160
French sailor who discoverd the St. Lawrence River:
Jacques Cartier
161
Union general who captured and burned Atlanta:
William T. Sherman
162
Gift France presented to the U.S. during the presidency of Grover Cleveland:
Statue of Liberty
163
Confederate ironclad ship that wrought havoc on the union fleet:
Merrimac
164
Englishmen who desired a plainer and purer religion:
Puritans
165
Law-enforcing branch:
Executive
166
Separatists that sailed to the new land:
Pilgrims
167
Inventor of the first steamboat:
Robert Fulton
168
Leader of the first expedition to circle the globe:
Ferdinand Magellan
169
"Sic semper tyrannis!" Who said it?
John Wilkes Booth
170
American general at the Battle of New Orleans:
Andrew Jackson
171
First European to reach India by sea:
Vasco da Gama
172
President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Federal aid programs, begun as an answer to the Great Depression:
the New Deal
173
Invention that changed modern agriculture:
McCormick Reaper
174
President of Congress that accepted the Declaration:
John Hancock
175
The young American patriot who was hanged as a spy by the British:
Nathan Hale
176
States int he Confederacy:
1. South Carolina
2. Mississippi
3. Floria
4. Alabama
5. Georgia
6. Louisiana
7. Texas
8. Arkansas
9. North Carlolina
10. Virginia
11. Tennessee
177
Second Continental Congress:
May 1775
178
Explorer after whom our continent is named:
Amerigo Vespucci
179
British general forced to surrender at Yorktown:
Cornwallis
180
Father of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
181
"Sic semper tyrannis!" What was the occasion?
the assassination of Lincoln
182
War fought over the boundaries between Texas and Mexico:
the Mexican War
183
Treaty of Ghent
1814
184
"Be sure you are right, then go ahead."
Davy Crockett
185
Dates of the Great Depression:
1929-1941 (or the 1930s)
186
Law-making branch:
Legislative
187
Commander-in-chief of the Union Army:
Ulysses S. Grant
188
"Slavery is in all probability the wedge which will split up this union."
John Quincy Adams
