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Thomas Jefferson's embargo in 1807 |
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Led to significant increase in American manufacturing |
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John C. Calhoun accepted the Tarrif of 1816 because he |
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Expected the South would become a manufacturing center |
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"This momentous question like a firebell in the night..." TJ said this about the |
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debate over the Missouri Compromise |
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Ended naval competition on the Great Lakes by limiting naval forces there |
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In 1825, Florida belonged to |
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was brought on by a severe drop in cotton prices |
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prohibited slavery in the rest of the Louisiana Territory north of Missouri's southern border |
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In the case of McCullough v Maryland, the Supreme Court |
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Denied the right of states to tax the Bank of the United States |
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In 1824, the United States signed a treaty with Russia concerning |
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Andrew Jackson led American troops into Florida in 1818 |
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in pursuit of hostile Seminoles |
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often appeared at crucial moments and then disappeared |
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Which of the following provided most of the money raised by the Continental Congress for the War? |
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A problem with the Spainish entry into the revolution against Britain was that Spain |
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entered as an ally of France rather than the new United States |
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The victory over the British at Yorktown was made possible by |
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Which of the following was NOT one of the provisions of the treaty ending the American Revolution? |
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Congress would restore all the property confiscated from Loyalist during the war |
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During the American Revolution, African American soldiers and sailors |
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Were present at most major battles from Lexington to Concord
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The Prussian Baron von Steuben's great contribution to the Continental Army was
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During the war, Virginia's govenor, Lord Dunmore |
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recruited slaves to fight for the British
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The woman who asked her husband to "remember the ladies" or to risk their rebellion was |
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After the war, the most important public ritual in the United States soon became |
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TJ's inaugural address reflected |
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A tone of simplicty and conciliation |
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A law of Congress was declared unconstitutional |
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The Lousiana Purchase was a problem for Jefferson because |
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he believed that the Constitution did not give authority to acquire new land |
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Besides keeping a journal of their travels, Lewis and Clark also |
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drew maps of unexplored regions |
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A British court ruled the enemy goods were subject to seizure even if shipped through neutral ports |
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Jefferson's response to British and French interference with American shipping was |
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what he referred to as a "policy of coercion" |
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The greatest support for the declaration of war in 1812 came from |
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The agriculture regions from Pennsylvania southward and westward |
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The greatest humiliation to the US in the War of 1812 occurred when the British |
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Invaded and burned Washington, D.C. |
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At the Hartford Convention, delegates from New England states |
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Proposed a series of constitutional amendments to limit Republican influence in government |
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The British lost the batle of New Orleans because |
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The frontally assaulted a strong American position |
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Under the Articles of Confederation, land not included within the boundaries of the 13 original states became |
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public domain, owned and administered by the national government |
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Resulted in some relief the following year by the state legislature |
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The Virginia Plan proposed a |
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Congress divided into two houses |
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A key issue of disagreement between the northern and southern states at the Constitutional Convention was |
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Whether to count slaves in the population for determining representation in Congress |
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The Constitution was to considered ratified as soon as it had been approved by |
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nine of the thirteen states |
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The Federalist Papers argued that |
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The size and diversity of the new country would make it impossible for one faction to control the government |
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All of the following are true of the Constitutional Convention except |
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They had faith in the intelligence of the masses |
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The Newburgh Conspiracy incident was put to rest when George Washington made this statement |
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"I have grown not only gray but blind in the service of my country" |
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On the issue of Women's Rights, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention |
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wanted a Bill of Rights to protect individuals from the new government |
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Which of the following best describes the Hamiltonian Federalist? |
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Pro-British, loose constiutional interpretation |
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Which of the following best describes the Jeffersonian Republicans? |
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Pro-French, strict constitutional interpretation |
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In his farewell address, Washington appealed for |
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The question of the assumption of state debt |
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was resolved in a compromise involving the location of the nations capital |
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An early development of the Republican party was the alliance of the South with an anti-aristocratic group among |
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When Britian and France went to war in 1793, the US |
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Expressed neutality, warning Americans not to aid either side |
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The Whiskey Rebellion ended when |
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Washington sent an army larger than he ever commanded in the Revolution to put down the revolt |
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A vote in Congress to create a national bank revealed |
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a growing sectional division in the young United States |
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The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions argued that |
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States could decide if the laws were unconstitutional |
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The Judiciary Act of 1801 |
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was the legacy of the Federalist as they left office |
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