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04/16/2014

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Between 1800 and 1823, the United States did all of the following...
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double in territorial size, warn European powers not to claim new colonies in the Americas, and fight a second war against Britain.
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Thomas Jefferson believed that...
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educated farmers were the most virtuous citizens and best upholders of republican liberty.
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Chief Justice John Marshall's opinions backed...
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the right of federal courts to declare acts of Congress unconstitutional
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Embargo Act...
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stimulated growth of manufacturing in the united states
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By the terms of the Treaty of Ghent, ending the war of 1812
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neither the United States nor Britain gained territory or made concessions
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War hawks
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Republicans from the West and South who wanted to take Canada from Britain and Florida from Spain
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John Quincy Adams is related to what foreign-policy initiatives
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Formulating the Monroe Doctrine and purchasing Florida
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During the era of Good Feelings
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the federalist party disappeared but the Republican party adopted some of its policies
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What was Thomas Jefferson's position on debt?
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Government debt would require tax revenues which would weaken industrious farmers, the backbone of the republic
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Which Supreme Court Justice was quickly impeached and removed from office
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John Pickering
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Aaron Burr
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plotted with the military governor of the Louisiana Territory to create an independent confederacy in the west, wanted for murder in two states when he was still vice president, and as VP plotted to form a Northern Confederacy
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Yazoo land scandal
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an entirely corrupt Georgia legislature had improperly sold most of present-day Alabama and Mississippi to investors.
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Passed in 1810, Macon;s Bill No. 2
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tried to restore trade with Europe in the wake of the Embargo Act
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What had angered the Shawnee Chief Tecumseh in September 1809
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The Treaty of Fort Wayne
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Battle of Bladensburg, Maryland, also became known as the Bladensburg Races because...
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Americans retreated so quickly that they almost did not get to fire a single shot
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Dartmouth College v. Woodward
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constitutionally protected contracts from state interference
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Immediate result of Jackson's distribution of federal funds to state banks..
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brought about rapid economic expansion, speculation and inflation.
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The South Carolina Exposition and Protest was drawn up in opposition to the ...
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Tariff of Abominations
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Utopian communities
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Oneida, New York; New Harmony, Indiana; Brook Farm, Massachusetts
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William Llyod Garrison
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opposed abolitionists who wanted to starts a political party and run candidates, in sited that slavery was sinful and its continued existence unacceptable, favored giving women equal positions
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Reformers of the antebellum period
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received their best response in New England to which New England has migrated
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Revialists and Unitarians were similar in
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their belief that human behavior could be changed for the better
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Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments called for
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equal rights for women
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Candidate in the 1824 presidential election that gained the majority of popular votes
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Andrew Jackson
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Who recognized that the run-up to the 1828 election was shaping a new political system
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Martin Van Buren
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Andrew Jacckson's practice of rewarding political supporters
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spoils system
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What did Locofocos work towards
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public education, then hour days, abolition of debtor prison
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The spark that ignited the Anti-Masonic crusade was
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the abdution of William Morgan
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Between the 1836 and 1842 wages int eh US
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fell by one third
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Charles Grandison Finney
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emphasized the role of the women and encouraged them to speak about their conversions
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The Shakers
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carefully separated the sleeping quarters of men and women
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What was the least important goal for African Americans in Reconstruction in the South
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social equality
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By 1880
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white sharecroppers outnumbered black ones
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What was a success President Ulysses S. Grant enjoyed during his two terms
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His administration engineered the settlement of Alabama claims with Britain
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What is not true about the Panic of 1873
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It caused the bankruptcy of apx 18000 businesses
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What was the significance of the slaughterhouse case in the Supreme Court in 1873
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it vitiated the intent of the 14th amendment to secure freedmen's rights against state encroachment
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Samual J. Tilden came from the state of
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New York
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Andrew Johnson
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Cared deeply about obtaining just treatment for the freedmen
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Exodusters were..
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southern blacks that migrated to Kansas in 1870
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In the Recontruction governments of the south who held the most positions ...
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scalywags
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Immigrants came from...
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Ireland and Germany
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What did Burr do?
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Killed Hamilton in a duel, plotted with Louisiana Terr.
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Popular foreign export
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KING COTTON
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Who worked in the Textile mills in Massachusetts
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Single women, lived and worked in Lowry Mills
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Compromise of 1850
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Fugitive slave law, Dred Scott upheld this
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