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| What agreement among the Pilgrims of Plymouth Plantation (1620) to establish a body politic and to obey the rules of the governors they chose. The compact was singed by all adult males before their ship reached land? |
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| What was the faith of the Enlightment that revered God for the marvels of the universe rather than for his power over humankind and rejects divine revelation holding that the workings of nature alone reveal God's design for the universe? |
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| Passed by parliament in 1766 it stated that the conies were entirely subordinate to Parliament's authority, and that parliament had the authority to tax Americans? |
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| What is the term for the belief of nineteenth-century Americans that their nation's territorial expansion was inevitable and ultimately a good thing, even for those being conquered, and helped Americans justify the aggressive acquisition of new territories in the 1840s and later in the 1890s |
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| What is the term for the Consiittution's ingenious devices of countervailing powers limiting the authority of government between the co-equal braches? |
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| What was the name of the overland trail across the Southern Plains from St. Louis to New Mexico that funneled American traders and goods to Spanish-speaking settlements in the Southwest? |
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| Who did President Lincoln place, in command of all Union forces after his victory at Vicksburg who slowly battered Lee's armies into submission around Richmond in 1864-1865, received Lee's surrender at Appromattox Courthouse, was elected president in 1868 and 1872, and his administration was ridden with scandal? |
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| What series of events beginnning in Sep. 1864, proceeded from General Willian Sherman's capture of Atlanta and subsequent march to Savannah on the Georgia coast, this strategy was designed to defeat the enemy's forces, destory its economic resources, and breaks its will to resist? |
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| What legislation passed in 1862 gave 160 acres of public land to any settler who would farm and improve the land within five years of the grant and encouraged westward migration into the Great Plains after the Civil War? |
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| What group replaced the Lords of trade as overseers of colonial affairs and reviewedlaws passed by colonial assemblies and nominated colonial governors |
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| What is the term for young men who aspired to become craftsmen and artisans and after five to seven years of training with a master craftsman, became a journeyman and began working for wages? |
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| What term used in the debate over the compromise of 1850, by New York Senator William Seward argued against any concessions to the slave interests by claiming that, "God's law," superseded the Constitution's provision for the return of runaway slaves, and any countenance of the evils of slavery? |
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| What isz the term for the events in July 1863 where citizens, mostly Irish laborers who feared for their jobs, rampaged through New York City with the protest escalating into class and racial warfare that had to be quelled by federal troops, over 100 people were killed? |
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| Who became President when Harrison died in1841 becoming the first vice-president to succeed to the presidency, never got along well with other leaders in the Whig party, and was not re-nominated in 1844? |
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| Who is credited with inventing barbed wire in 1874 and thus helping close the "open range" grazing of te cattle industry in the mid-1880s |
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| What political party formed in the mid-1830s in opposition to the Jacksonian Democrats favored a strong role for the national government in promoting economic growth, the name was previously used to identify advocates of colonia resistance to British measures during the 1760s and 1770s? |
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| What, first suggested by President Jackson, was the term for the idea that surplus revenues of the federal government should be distributed among the states, and in 1841 an act was passed calling for the proceeds from federal land sales to be divided among the several states? |
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| In what court case did the Surpreme Court rule that a state government could not govern the Indians or their territory lying within that state, Georgia officials ignored the ruling and forced the Cherokees to leave the state? |
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| Who was the commandor of Taxan armies in the Texas revolt, became the first president of the Republic of Texas in 1836 and was later a Taxas senator and governor? |
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| What is the the term for what both the confederates (in 1862) ans the Union (in 1863) did to raise manpower during the civil war, this coercive measure was resented in both the North and the South but the bulk of the fighting forces in both armies were raised through voluntary enlistment? |
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| What legislation passed by Congress in 1830 provided funds in the West, granted the president the authority to use force if necessary, and in 1838 was used for tragic removal of the Cherokee Idians from Georgia to Indian Terrritory under severe conditions in 1838 (Trail of Tears)? |
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| What political group formed in 1848 when the antislavery Barnburners in the Democratic party combined with the abolitionist Liberty party, they opposed the expansion of slavery into the territories and nominated Martin Van Buren for president? |
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| Who was the cheif clerk in the State Department who was sent to negotiat a peace treaty with a defeated Mexico in 1847 but before he could open negotiations he was summoned to return, he ignored the order and stayed to negotiate the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
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| What political group met in Ripon, Wisconsin in 1855 in response to the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, was a party composed of northerners who opposed the territorial expansion of slavery, and nominated John C. Fremont for president in 1856 and Abraham Lincoln in 1860 |
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| What community, in south-central Virginia, was the site of Comfederate General Robert E. Lee's surrender to Union general Ulysses S. Grant? |
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| What city was a key Mississippi River port and rail junction that fell in July 1863 to a brilliant Union campaign by Ulysses S. Grant, this paired with the Union victory at Gettysburg led to the dissolution of the Confederacy? |
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| What Pennsylvania Congressman was the leader of the Radical Republicans in the House of Representatives during the Civil War Reconstruction and insisted on making emancipation a war goal, and granting full political and civil rights to blacks? |
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| What is the Latin term for a court oder directing that a detained person be brought to a court to determine the cause of his detention, Lincoln sometimes suspended the order as is constitutional in a time of war? |
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| Who was the Dark Horse candidate elected president in 1844 his election secured the annexation of Texas in1845, and the Mexican War, fought during his term, resulted in the United States' acquisition of New Mexico and California in 1848? |
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| What federal fort, on a small island near Charleston, South Carolina, was the site of a siege where President Lincoln's efforts to replenish their supply generated a military reprisal from Confederate forces and triggered open warfare between the United states and the Confederate secessionists? |
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| What Presidential dclaration went into effect on Jan. 1, 1863 freeing all slaves in areas then in rebellion against the United States making emancipation a war goal, kept foreign nation out of the conflict and encouraged the erosion of slavery? |
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| What 1848 treaty ended the Mexican War, Mexico surrendered its clain to Texas above the Rio Grande and , in the Mexica Cession of 1848, ceded New Mexico and Alta California to the United States in return for a payment of $15 million? |
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| What battle took place in a Pennsylvania town and is considered the pivotal battle of the Civil War, the Union victory in July 1863 turned the tide of the war? |
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| What battle, fought July 21,1861, was also the first major battle of the Civil War, poorly organized Union troops under the command of general Irvin McDowell were repulsed by poor organized Confederate troops under the command of General P.G.T. Beauregard? |
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| What act passed in Maryland in 2649 granted freedom of religion to all professing Christians and was designed to protect the Catholic minority who controlled the government from the Protestant majority of the population? |
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| Who was the soldier of fortune who, as governor, supplied the early Jamestown settlment with leadership, without which the colony would have quickly perished? |
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| Who was the English-speaking Indian who helped the Pilgrims at Plymouth Plantation by showing them where to fish and how to cultivate corn? |
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| Who was the English courtier who attempted an English settlement on Roanoke Island in 1587, but colony failed for lack of supplies? |
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| What proposal in 1846 by a Pennsylvania Congressman provided for banning slavery from any territory the United States might acquire from Mexico as a result of war and though is never passed Congress it generated a great debate on the authority of the federal government to ban slavery from the territories? |
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| Who was the Illinois cattle dealer who established Abilene, Kansas, as the railhead of the long drive on the Chisholm Trail from south Texas in 1867? |
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| What were regulary scheduled sail ships that greatle facilitated the movement of goods and passengers across the Atlantic in the mid-nineteenth century, and accelerated the tendency for trade to concentrate in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and New Orlands? |
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| What is also know as the Chivington Massacre where in 1864 a party of state militia commanded by John Chivinton annihilated a Cheyenne Indian community in an unprovoked, vicious, and bloodthirsty raid, with his orders to "killand scalp all, big and little."? |
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| What was the agreement, Negotiated with Britian in 1794, were the British agreed to evacute posts in the American northwest, settle some maritime disputes, the U.S. agreed to accept Britain's definition of America's neutral rights, and provoked a storm of protest in the U.S.? |
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| What controversial debt funding plan was contained in the Report on Pulic Credit where Alexander Hamilton recommended that the national debt be funded by calling in all outstanding securities and issuing new bonds of the same face value in their place, and establishing an untouchable sinking fund to assure payment of the intereest and principal of the new bonds? |
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| Who was the French utopian socialist who proposed that society should be organized in cooperative units called phalanxes and though several phalanxes were founded in the northern and western states they were short-lived? |
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| What is the system of electing presidents with each state having representative equal in number to it representation in congress with each casting tow votes for two different candidates? |
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| What political group opposed ratification of the Constitution; they were state' rightist, were concerned that the Constitution contained no Bill of Right, and favored a limited role for the federal government? |
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| What group of reformers, both black and white, sought to end slavery but often disagreed about how to accomplish their goal? |
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| What Surpreme Court case in 1803 ruled the Judiciary Act of 1789 unconstitutional and established the precedent for judicial review of federal laws? |
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| Who proposed the Virginia plan to the Constitutional Convention, coauthored theFederalist Papers, helped Jefferson organize the Republican party, and wrote the Virginia Resolves and becam president in 1809? |
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| Who was the first Secretary of Treasury, the leading spokesman for strong national government, and organized the Federalis party? |
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| Who was Washington's vice-president and defeated Jefferson for the presidency in the election of 1796 and resisted his party's demand for war with France during his term? |
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| What is the term for the permission to store goods in Spain New Orleans while awaiting ocean-going transportation to eastern and European markets-- was vital towestern settlers? |
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| Who was the commander of the Confederacy's Army of Northern Virginia and a brilliant tactician, led the Confederate armies at Antietam and Gettysburg, and surrendered to Gerneral Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, in 1865 |
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| What was the term for the group of most northern Democrats who opposed all measures in support of war against the confederacy, wanted a negotiated peace, and was also appied to those suspected of aiding the Confederate cause during the Civil War |
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| What was the name of the overland trail of more than 2,000 miles that carried American settlers from the midwest to new settlements in Oregon, California, and Utah? |
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| What is the term for the position delegates at the Constitutional Convention took for having each state having equal voting strength with every other state? |
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| Who saw the need for thorough organization in the women's rights movement and campaigned for women's right to vote, own property, attend college, and enter the professions? |
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| Who was the commander of the British army that was Captured at Saratoga in 1777 and by so doing changed the course and the character of the Revolutionary War? |
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| Who was the English Chancellor of the Exchequer who persuaded Paliament to impose a new series of trade taxes on the American colonies in 1767 and held a very low opinion of the colonist? |
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| Who was a Puritan Minister who was banished from Massachusetts Bay for his heretical ideas of extreme separatism and separation of church and state, and his insistence that the colony's land must be purchased from the Indians? |
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| What was Parliament's respones to the Boston Tea Party that was intended to punish Boston and Massachusetts generally for a crime committed by a few individuals and the the colonists called these ( combined with the Quartering and Quebec acts) the Intolerable Acts? |
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| Who was the Swiss Protestant leader and reformer whose ideas formed the religious doctorines of the Pilgrims (Separatists) and Puritans? |
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| What was the title and name of the family who established the proprietary colony of Maryland in 1634 as a haven for English catholics and for their own economic advantage? |
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| What was the uprising by western Pennsylvania farmers in 1763 that was triggered by eastern indifference to Indian attacks on the frontier and by the western district's under-representation in the Pennsylvania assembly? |
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| What were the general search warrents authorized in1761 that allowed British customs agents looking for smuggled goods to enter colonial homes and werehouses without evidence or specific court orders? |
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| What 1842 treaty settled the controversy over the Maine-Canada boundary, and allowed Canada to build a military road from Halifax to Quebec while the United States Got most of the Disputed Territory? |
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| What was the sixteenth-century movement to reform the Catholic Church that began with Martin Luther's critique of the church practices in 1517and ultimately led to the founding of a number of new Protestant Christian religious groups? |
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| What was the event where peace commissioners sent to France by President Adams in 1797 were insulted by their French counterparts' demand for a bribe as a condition for offending America's tender sense of national honor? |
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| What was the movement, beginning in the 1820's, to reduced national consumption of alcohol and succeeded in getting Maine to pass the first effective law prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages (1851) and Congress to pass the Eighteenth Amendment (1918) which banned the manufacture, sale, and transportationof alcohlic beverages in the United States which was repealed by the Twenty-firrst Amendment in 1933? |
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| What was the agreement, also known as the Treat of San Lorenzo, where Spain granted the United States free navigation of the Mississippi River and the right of deposit at New Orleans and settled the boundary disputed between Spanish Florida and the United States, on terms favorable to the United States, placing the boundary at the 31st parallel? |
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| What Presidential proclamation, in 1836, was an effort to halt a speculative land mania fueled by the easy availability of paper currency issued by state banks and provided the purchasers must pay for public land in gold and silver? |
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| What was the commonname for one of the most important of the religious communes founded in the early nineteeth century, founded by Joseph Smith in New York in the 1820s they were resented because of their unorthodox religiou views and they finally located near Great Salt Lake in the 1840s? |
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| Where was the U.S. Army's brutal winter Massacre in 1890 of 150 Sioux men, women, and children as part of the government's assaulton the tribe's Ghost Dance religion? |
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| What was adopted first in Virginia and later in Maryland, and was a system of land distribution during the early colonial era granted settlers 50 acres for themselves and another 50 for each person they brought with them to the colony? |
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| What is the term for the Election of 1824, in which John Quincy Adams laid himself open to the charge of having won the presidency by virtue of a politicaldeal with Henry Clay by employing his great influence in the House of Representatives, Clay swung the House vote for Adams for president. Adams then appointed Clay as his secretary of state? |
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| Who became the war minister for England in 1757 during the French and Indian War who poured the full resources of the British empire into defeating the French in this Great War for the Empire. |
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| Who was a proponent of English colonization in the New World, and tired in his essay, "Discourse on western Planting," to convince Queen Elizabeth I to aid the establishment of colonies, arguing that they would have important strategic and economic benefits for England? |
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| What organization was created to enforce the boycott of British goods and created local committees supervise local compliance? |
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| Who was the member of the Virginia House of Burgesses who represented Virginia in the Parson's Cause case and in May 1765 suggested that Parliment had no legal authority to tax the colonies? |
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| Who was the Prime Minister of England in 1763 who attempted to reduce government spending, and he proposed the Sugar and Stamp acts to raise revenue in the colonies to defray the expenses of Britian's expanded empire? |
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| Who did Prsident Lincoln appoint commander of Union force in 1861, his initial failures led to his replacmemt only to be reinstated and then replaced again when he failed to take advantage of the Confederate withdrawal from Antietam in 1862? |
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| What was the name of a religious commune founded by Ann Lee, practiced celibacy because they believed the millennium was imminent and made a special virtue of simplicity? |
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| Who were radical religious dissenters who rejected membership in th Church of england, on the Grounds that the Church was too corrupt to be reformed; they seperated from the Church to save their souls? |
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| What radical religious sect arose in the mid-seventennth century and stressed the doctrine of the Inner Light (or Holy Spirit that dwelt within them), rejected formal theology and an educated ministry, were important in the founding of Pennsylvania, and practiced pacifism and were tolerant of other religions? |
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| Proportional Representation |
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| What is the term for representation with each state's delegation based on the size of its population? |
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| Who was the President of Mexico, general of the Mexican Army that invaded Texas during the Texas Revolt in 1835-1836 and captured at the Battle of San Jacinto where Texans won their independence? |
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| What incident involved a U.S. naval vessel interceting a British ship, and the removal of two Confederate envoys, a clear violation of international law and nearly brought Britian in to the war on the side of the Confederacy? |
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| whatg Democratic Senator from Tennessee was Lincoln's vice-presidential running mate in 1864, succeeded to the presidency when Lincoln was assassinated in 1865, infuiated Radical Rebulicans in Congress, and he was impeached and nearly removed from officein 18667? |
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| Who was the founding trustee of the Georgia colony in 1733 and hoped to make Georgia a reformed society free of slavery, strong drink? |
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| Waht vessels were speedy, long, sleek sailing ships that cut sailing time from the Atlantic to Pacific coast in half in the 1850s their heyday was befief because they were uneconomical for bulky cargoes that were the mainstay of commerce? |
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| What legislation established the pattern for government land grants to railroads, giving public land to railroad construction companies for each mile of track laid with the money earned from sale of the land going to actual railroad construction, but system le to widespread abuse and corruption? |
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| What Ohio Congressman was most notorious domestic foe of Lincoln's war policies, a Peace Democrat he ured that the war be by ended by negotiation, was temporarily jailed, banned to the confederacy, went to Canada, and returned to campaign against Lincoln in 1864? |
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| Who was placed in command of the campaign to capture Meico City during the Mexican War after an amphibious landing at Veracruz, his army marched overland and captured Mexico City in Sept. 1847? |
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| Who was the commander of American armies in northern Mexico during the Mexican War, in 1848 he was elected president as a Whig candidate, and he died in office in1850? |
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| What legislation passed in July 1862 awarded proceeds from the sale of public lands to the states for the establishment of agricultural and mechanical (later engineering) colleges; the grants were awarded at the rate of 30,000 acres for each member that stste had in Congress? |
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| What legislation was to ensure the absolute safety of federal funds, and took the federal government out of banking requiring all payments to the government to be made in hard cash and stored in government vaults? |
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| What famous confrontation in 1830, between a South Carolina Senator and a Massachusetts Senator, became an argument over disunionism with the Northern Senator claiming thet the Consistution, not of the states was acompact of the American people, not of the states, and that it was perpetual and indissouble? |
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| What project was vetoed by President Jackson in 1830 for the construction of a road because of the route was wholly within Kenucky even though Jackson generally favored interneal improvments, he preferred that local projects like this be left to state funding? |
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| What is the term for what happened in 1832 when a Souht Carolina convention refused to enforce the Tariff of 1832 and Jackson responed by threatening the use of federal troops to compel South Carolina to obey federal law? |
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| What was the term for institutions wher President Jackson had Secretary of Treasury Roger Taney deposit federal funds during the Bank War? |
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| Who was the English Courtier whose interest in a Northwest Passage (through North America) to the Orient led him to attempt, unsuccessfully, the founding of an English colony in Newfounland in the 1580s? |
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| What was the term for the transatlantic exchange ofplants, animals, and diseases that occured after the first European contact with the Americas? |
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| Who served over twenty years as the elected governor of the Puritan's Massachuesetts Bay colony? |
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| What New York Senator appealed to a "higher law" than the Constitution to oppose the Fugitive Slave Act, in the 1850s he helped found the Republican party, in the 1860s he served as President Lincoln's secretary of state, and negotiated the purchased of Alaska? |
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| What was the response to the Alian and Sedition Acts, authored by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, and argued that the Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional and that each state had a right to declare them null and void? |
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| What was the name of the document in which Secretary of Treasury Alexander Hamilton recommended that Congress fund the national debt at par and assume the states' debts, trying to establish the financial credit of the new national government? |
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| Who commanded British troops in the South in 1778-1781 and was forced to surrender at the battle of Yorktown in 1781, effectively ending the Revolutionary War? |
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| Who along with Benedict Arnold Commanded the Patriot defense at the Battle of Saratoga in 1777 and offen quarreled with fellow officers eventually alienating even Washington? |
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| What was the governing scheme of James II in the 1680s desined to bring greater imperial supervision of the New England coloies and New York and failed because Andros made himself obnoxious to the Massachusetts Bay Puritans, who rebelled against his rule? |
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| What was the widespread evangelical revival movement of the 1740sand 1750s, sparked by the tour of the English evangelical minister George Whitefield, the Awakening divided congregation and weakened the authority of established church in the colonies? |
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| Who became the first (and only) president of the Confederate State of America, had been a respected Sentor from Mississippi and former Secretarty of war, but he proved unable to provide strong national leadership for the Confederacy during the Civil War? |
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| What veteran of the Battle of Bunker Hill led an armed rebellion of western Massachusetts farmers to prevent state courts from foreclosing on debtors unable to pay their taxes and convinced nationalists that to suppress or inhibit such rebellions, the nation needed a stronger national government? |
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| What four Acts were passed in 1798 that attacked the Republican party and suppressed dissent against Federalist policies and curtailed freedom of speech and the liberty of foreigners resident in the United States? |
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| What was the plan proposed by Roger Sherman of Connecticut at the 1787 Constitutional Convention for creating a national bicameral legislation, with the House of Repersentatives placed were to be assigned according to a state's population (proportional representation) and filled by popular vote, and in the Senate each state was to have two members (equal representation) elected by its state legislature |
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| Who was the knig of England who repudiated the Pope's authority and declared himself head of the (Protestant) Anglican Church in 1533? |
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| What were locally sponsored public lectures that were quite diverse in topics and in speakers with many early nineteenth-century literary figures were popular lecturers on the circuit? |
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| Who was the governor of the Dominion of New England and sey about to abolish the Massachusetts assembly, enforce religious toloration, and collect the king's quitrents? |
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| Who was the American revivalist of the Great Awakening who was both deeply pious and passionately devolted to intellectual pursuits and delivered the great sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God?" |
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| What was the response to calls for a stronger and more energetic national government, 55 delegates met in the summer of 1787 to draft a new constitution to replace the ineffective Articles of Confederation? |
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| What was the armed rebellion that began with settler attack on Idians but which culminated in a rebellion against the royal governor of Virginia, Sir William Berkely, in 1676and was the product of Berkeley's political favortism, economic exploitation and Indian policy? |
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| What group gathered in May 1775 ans was immediately faced with the preessure of rapidly unfolding military events, it organized the Continental Army and commissioned George Washington to lead it and decide on Independence? |
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| What were small taxes on each 50 acres of land granted under the headright system and were used by English monarchs and by colony proprietors to derive income from their colonies? |
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| What misnamed battle the first major battle of the Revolutionary War (Boston, June 1775) and effectively ended any hope of a negotiated settlement between the colonists and Britian? |
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| Who commanded Patriot armies in the backcountry of North and South Carolina in 1778-1781 whose Querrilla tactics harassed General Cornwallis's army as it moved toward Virginia and the decision at Yorktown in 1781? |
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| What event, beginning in 1688, resulted in the collapse of the Dominion of New England and in several colonial rebellions against James II's appointed governors/ |
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| Who as the principal writer of the Declaration of Independence and served as a foreing ambassador under the Articles of Confederation? |
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| Who were the Presbyterian immigrants who migrated to the colonial backcountry in the early eighteenth century and felt little loyalty to England? |
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| What is the term for the early nineteenth-century expectation that women in society were to be pious, pure, submissive, domesticated, and that they were to be singularly devoted to the care of their husbands and children? |
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| What was the name of the abolitionist newspaper, published by William Lloyd Garrison, and called for the immediate abolitioon of slavery and treatment of blacks as equals? |
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| WHat American novelist was acutely aware of the existence of evil in the world and his works reflected that insight his classic "Mody Dick" dealt symbolically with the problem of good and evil, courage and cowardice;and with faith, stubborness and pride? |
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| What was term for the practice of commandeering manpower for navel service by taking sailors from neutral vessels and so offended American's honor that it was a major cause of War of 1812? |
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| Who was commissioned by President Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Territory and beyond to the Pacific Coast and brought back a wealth of data about the cuntry and its resources? |
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| Who was the French military genius who sold the Louisiana Territory to the United States in 1804 and the money to finance his war with Britain? |
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| What legislation passed in 1808 replaced the Embargo Act and forbade U.S. trade only with Britian and France, and authorized the president to end it if either nation stopped violating U.S. neutral rights. |
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What was the 1857 case where the Supreme Court ruled that blacks were not citizens and could not sue in a federal court, and that Congress had no constitutional authority to ban slavery from a territory, that , in effect, the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional? |
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| What term was given voice in the Declaration of Indepenence and justified the coloists' revolt against britian by an appeal to the abstract right of a people against a tyrannical government? |
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| What was the term for the German troops hired by the British in 1775 to help suppress rebellion in the colonies whose usemade reconciliation with the colonies seem out of the question? |
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| What is the term for the process of bringing charges against a public official for misbehavior in office and the House of Representatives used this process against President Johnson in 1867 and president Clinton in 1999, but a Senate trail failed to convict them of the charges? |
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| What was the program that southerners adopted with the landowners providing land, tools, housing, and seed to a farmer who provided his labor in exchange for a portion of the farmer's crop? |
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Who was the experienced diplomat and co-author of the notorious Ostend Manifesto in 1854 who was labeled a "Doughface" by Republicans, won the presidency as the nominee of the Democratic party in 1856 and sat paralyzed by indecision during the Secassion Crisis of 1860-1861?
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| Who introduced indigo as a cash crop on her South Carolina plantation for which the British parliament paid a bonus? |
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| What were special laws passed by southern state and muicipal governments immediately after the civil war to deny many right of citizenship to free blacks and were designed to control black labor, mobility, and emploment, and to get around the Thirteenth Amendment that freed the slaves? |
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| What was created by Congress in 1877 as an extra-constitutional way to decide the disputed outcome of the electoral vote in the 1876 presidential electionresulting in all twenty disputed votes being awarded to the Republican candidate, Rutherford B. Hayes, and he won the electoral vote and the presidency, 185 to 184? |
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| What system replaced the home shop, artisans producing a great variety of goods, and brought the means of production together in buildings where water power (later stream and electricity) supplied the energy to run the machinery that increased productivity and reduced labor cost? |
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| What was a form of apprenticeship or boned (contract) labor and provided a way for Europeans who could not afford to pay their own passage to get to america and in return for payment of their transportation servants agreed to work for several years? |
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| What series of events in the senate race in Illinois in 1858, focused on the implication of Dred Scott decision and the future of slavery in America? |
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| Who was the Apache Chief who was captured in 1886 bringing to a close to the suppression of indian resistance to white migration into the west? |
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| What battle followed months of organizational ineptitude and American military harassment, resulted in the surrender of British General John Burgoyne and his army to General Horatio Gates on Oct. 17, 1777 and encouraged francer to join the war on the side of the American Rebels? |
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| What was the English Joint-stock company founded in 1672 and devoted to the slave trade and made slaves more readily avaiable to English colonist in American? |
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| What was re-chartered in 1816, had extensive regualory powers over currency and credit, came under heavy criticism during the panic of 1819, and President Jackson vetoed a bill to re-charter it provoking the Bank War? |
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| What is term for Artical I section 8 Paragraph 18 of the Consistution that grants Congress the right to pass all laws "necessary and proper" to carry out the powers and specifically granted to Congress by the consistution and is the source of Hamilton's implied powers doctrine? |
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| What agreement was ratified in 1821 with Secretary of state John quincy Adams gaining a favorable western boundary of the Louisiana Territory, and also, purchased Florida? |
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| Who was commissioned by President Polk to offer to purchase California and New Mexico for Mexico, and was also to try to purchase the territory then in dispute between Texas and Mexico north of the Rio Grande? |
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| What is the term for a series of enactments that divided the South into five military districts, required southern states to ratify the fourteenth Admendment as a condition of their readmission to the Union? |
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| What proposal during the Secession Crsis in 1860-1861 proposed a constitutional amendment recognizing slavery in all territory south of 36 30, and an unamendable amendment guaranteeing slavery in slavery in slave states and President-elect Lincoln and the Republican rejected the proposals? |
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