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What year was Jamestown established?
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What year was Jamestown established?
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What year was Plymouth established?
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What was one of the main reasons the British imposed mercantilism?
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How did Thomas Hooker influence self-government?
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Why did slavery first begin in America?
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What was a political reason the English settled in America?
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What was a social reason the English settled in America?
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What was an economic reason the English settled in America?
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Why was the Virginia House of Burgesses so important to American history?
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What was the main reason the Pilgrims signed the Mayflower Compact?
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Why was the Fundamental Orders of CT such an important document
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What was a common belief of the Puritans and Pilgrims?
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What were the main crops produced in the Southern Colonies?
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What was the main economic resource of the Middle Colonies?
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What was the main economic resource of New England?
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Which region had rocky soil, vast forests, natural harbors, and was part of the triangular trade?
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Which region had a diverse population, many different religious groups, and the cities of New York and Philadelphia?
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Which region had fertile soil, many slaves, and had life centered around the plantation?
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The colonists were allowed to start their own governments and trade freely because of what British policy?
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What British document from 1215 influenced American government with ideas like trial by jury and limited government?
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Which group of people that were looking for religious freedom settled in Maryland?
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How did William Penn contribute to the idea of self government in America?
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What religious movement swept across the colonies in the 1700s?
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What law in Maryland provided religious freedom to all people providing the basis for the 1st Amendment?
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Which group of people that were looking for religious freedom settled in Pennsylvania?
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What was the main reason the French and Indian War was fought?
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How did religion contribute to the growth of representative government in the colonies?
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What British policy did not allow the colonists to manufacture products nor trade freely with other nations?
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Life in New England was centered around what two things?
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What was the Albany Plan of Union?
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During the colonial period, what was the most efficient method of transportation?
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What two geographic factors most influenced the economies of the 13 colonies?
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What law forbid colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains?
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Why did England begin to tax the colonies starting with the Sugar Act?
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Why did the colonists hate the British taxes so much?
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What law required colonists to house and supply British soldiers?
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What law was a tax on all paper documents and led to many colonial protests, including boycotts of British goods?
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What secret group of colonists protested peacefully and violently against the British laws they believed were taking away their rights?
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At this meeting, delegates agreed to create the Continental Army and named Washington the commanding general
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Colonists who protested British actions and wanted independence for America
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Colonists who supported the British
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Who was the main author of the Declaration of Independence?
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Who was the British philosopher who believed in natural rights? He inspired Jefferson to write the Declaration of Independence.
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Who was the French officer who became a general in the Continental Army?
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Who won a famous naval battle against the British during the American Revolution?
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What event officially ended the American Revolution and gave America all the land east of the Mississippi River?
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What governor of the Louisiana Territory helped defend the southern American colonies from the British during the war?
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Who was the commanding general of the Continental Army?
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Who wrote many famous letters to her husband asking him to "Remember the Ladies" in the new government?
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Who was an African-American leader and solider in the Continental Army?
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What Jewish merchant helped finance the Patriot cause with his own money?
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Who wrote poems, essays and plays encouraging colonists to resist against the British?
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Who was a slave that became an American spy during the Revolution, helping America win the war?
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What American victory was the last major battle of the Revolution?
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What was Ben Franklin's most important contribution during the Revolution?
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What opening battle of the Revolution was known as the "shot heard around the world"?
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Why did Thomas Paine write "Common Sense"?
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What American victory was known as the turning point of the Revolution because it encouraged France to become America's ally?
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What year was the Declaration of Independence signed?
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What are the main examples of unalienable rights that everyone is born with?
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Why is there an amendment process for the Constitution?
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Why did slavery first begin in America?
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The Preamble of the U.S. Constitution states the purposes of government, and is based on the belief that...
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In which region of the U.S. was the first permanent English settlement located?
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The differences between the economies of the colonies in New England, the Middle, and the South were mainly due to what factor?
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The American colonists used the slogan, "No taxation without representation," to express their belief in the need for...
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Why did the framers of the U.S. Constitution include the concepts of federalism, checks and balances, and separation of powers?
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Why is the Mayflower Compact considered an important step in the development of American democracy?
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This is a system of government when the people exercise their power by voting for political representatives.
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All U.S. citizens must obey the law, including government leaders.
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This is a government in which the people rule.
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These are the rights and privileges guaranteed by the Bill of Rights.
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What is a system of government where power is shared between the federal government and the states?
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Each branch of the government can exercise control over the other branches so that no branch becomes too powerful.
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The government is divided into roles and branches. Each branch has a different job.
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Who makes the laws?
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Who executes the laws?
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Who interprets the laws?
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How is the number of representatives per state determined?
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Who has the only power to declare war?
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What group of nine people are on top of the judicial branch?
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Why do we need an amendment process to the Constitution?
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What two groups make up Congress?
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What is the name for the first ten amendments to the Constitution which guarantee individual rights?
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What was America's first government that had weak central power?
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What was the one strength of the Articles of Confederation that organized the westward expansion of the U.S.?
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What was a long-term effect of the Northwest Ordinance?
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Why was Shay's Rebellion an important event?
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Which plan came from the "large states" and wanted representation to be determined by a states' population?
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What were the two main issues the North and South disagreed about related to counting slaves?
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In 1788, why did Anti-Federalists in several states refuse to approve the U.S. Constitution?
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Which of these was a major issue dividing the Federalist and Democratic-Republican (Anti-Federalist) parties?
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What were the first two political parties?
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What did Jefferson and the Democratic-Republicans believed that the U.S. economy should be based on?
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What did Hamilton and the Federalists believed that the U.S. economy should be based on?
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Why were so many people against the Alien and Sedition Acts?
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Based on the states' rights theory of the Constitution as set forth by the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, what does each state have the authority to do?
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What year was the Constitution written?
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Who was known as the "Father of the Constitution" because he wrote the Virginia Plan?
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What law was a combination of the Virginia and New Jersey Plans, and gave America a two-house legislature, three branches of government, the House of Representatives based on the population of the state, and the Senate based on equality?
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What was the main reason why the Federalist Papers were written?
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What major issue was solved with the 3/5th's Compromise?
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What type of foreign policy did Washington begin in 1789?
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Define neutrality.
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What is the name of America's economic system in which individuals have the freedom to make money as they choose?
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Which political party believed in a strong national government?
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What political party believed in having strong state governments and a weaker central government?
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Who was the author of the Star Spangled Banner?
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What two things did Washington warn against in his Farewell Address?
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What was first established by the Supreme Court case Marbury vs. Madison?
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Define judicial review
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What two geographic landmarks did the United States gain full control over with the purchase of the Louisiana Territory?
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What best explains the objective of the Lewis and Clark expedition?
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Which was a reason why the Louisiana Purchase was so important?
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Who was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court for 34 years who strengthened Federalist power?
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What best describes Thomas Jefferson's foreign policy goals?
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With what law did Jefferson stop all foreign trade in order to stay out of a war?
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What American victory over the British in 1815 turned Andrew Jackson into a national hero?
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What year was the Louisiana Purchase acquired?
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What was the name of the war that America fought against the British when James Madison was President?
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Which was a main reason America went to war with the British in 1812?
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What did the Battle of Fort McHenry inspire an American to write?
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What was an important result from the War of 1812?
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Why did the War of 1812 cause manufacturing to grow in America?
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Who invented the mechanical reaper?
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What area of life was improved by the steel plow and mechanical reaper?
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What was the impact of the Bessemer Steel Process?
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Who invented the cotton gin and interchangeable parts?
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Who invented the American version of the steamboat?
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Who invented the telegraph?
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What is the main impact of the telegraph?
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Who invented the steel plow?
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Who was the inventor of the American textile mill?
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What is the main idea behind the Industrial Revolution?
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In what region of America did most of the industrialization occur?
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What groups of people started to work for the first time in factories?
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What is the main impact of interchangeable parts?
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What geographic advantage led to most factories being built in New England?
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What is another name for a factory?
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What is another name for textile?
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In order to get closer to the factory, what shift led to urbanization?
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From what continent did immigrants come to America in the 1800s looking for factory jobs?
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What was a main characteristic of the Lowell Mills?
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What two inventions produced cloth from cotton?
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What was the main impact of the steamboat?
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What was an important impact of the cotton gin?
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What was the name for the man-made waterway built in New York?
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What was the main impact of the Erie Canal?
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What was the main impact of the Transcontinental Railroad?
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Why did the South not turn more towards industry?
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In which country did the Industrial Revolution begin before it came to America?
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Where did farmers and their slaves in the South begin to move in order to plant new cotton?
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Numerous workers under one roof, machines making products, and workers having a set schedule and wages were all part of the __________________.
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Europe should stay on their side of the ocean and not start colonies, nor interfere in the Americas.
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Who was the 5th President?
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The Supreme Court ruled that only the FEDERAL government has the power to tax a bank.
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The Supreme Court ruled that only the FEDERAL government has the power to regulate interstate commerce.
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Who was the 6th President?
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What area was conquered by Jackson who defeated the Seminole Indians and the Spanish?
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putting the interests of your region or area ahead of the country as a whole
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What was the unspoken agreement in Congress during the 1820s related to slavery?
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Why was the balance of power issue between free and slave states such a big deal?
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What agreement did Congress reach in 1820 related to slavery?
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What were the main parts of the Missouri Compromise?
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tax on imported goods
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What kind of people was Jackson claimed to have represented?
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What political party did Jackson's supporters split into in 1828?
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What is "Jacksonian Democracy"?
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How did voting rights expand in the 1820s?
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What is the spoils system?
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Who was the 7th President?
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Why did the North support tariffs?
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Why did the South hate tariffs?
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What was the doctrine of nullification?
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What senator from South Carolina proposed the idea of nullification?
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In the states rights debate in Congress, what was the Northern viewpoint?
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In the states rights debate in Congress, what was the Southern viewpoint?
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What congressman from the North supported a strong Union in the states rights debate?
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Because it so strongly opposed the tariff law, what did South Carolina threaten to do in 1832?
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What law officially required all Native Americans to be relocated west of the Mississippi River?
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What was the Trail of Tears?
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In what case did the Supreme Court side with the Cherokees, ruling that they did not have to leave their homes?
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What is the 19th century belief that the U.S. was supposed to expand west to the Pacific Ocean?
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What event led to thousands of people moving to California in 1849?
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What was one of the main reasons the U.S. declared war on Mexico?
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What is the vast area of land that became part of the U.S. after Mexico was defeated in 1848?
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What was the agreement between the U.S. and Mexico that gave the Mexican Cession to America?
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What religious group moved west to Utah for religious freedom?
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Why did the U.S. acquire the Gadsden Purchase from Mexico?
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In the mid-19th century, why did thousands of Chinese immigrants come to America?
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What reformer led the movement to help the mentally disabled and those in prison?
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What person was responsible for reforming and improving public education in America?
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Who documented and illustrated all types of birds?
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Who built the women's rights movement into a national organization?
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What word means "the right to vote"?
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What transcendentalist practiced civil disobedience by not paying taxes which would have supported the Mexican War and slavery?
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What was the movement to end slavery?
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Who published an abolitionist newspaper called "The Liberator"?
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Who was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad?
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What event pushed thousands of people from Ireland to immigrate to America?
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What kind of paintings were created at the Hudson River School?
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Where did Elizabeth Cady Stanton present her "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions"?
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Why was the Second Great Awakening in the mid-1800s such an important event?
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What was the temperance movement?
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What groups were the main leaders behind the temperance movement?
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Which female was a powerful speaker and former slave who fought for abolition and women's rights?
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Which former slave wrote his own autobiography and traveled the country speaking out against slavery?
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Who wrote the "Declaration of Sentiments" and was considered the leader of the women's rights movement?
