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Fletcher v. Peck 1810 was the first case in which the Supreme Court ruled a state law unconstitutional.
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Pennsylvania was part of the 13 colonies.
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New Jersey was part of the 13 colonies
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Georgia was part of the 13 colonies.
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Connecticut was part of the 13 colonies.
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Massachusetts was part of the 13 colonies.
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Maryland was part of the 13 colonies.
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South Carolina was part of the 13 colonies.
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New Hampshire was part of the 13 colonies
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Virginia was part of the 13 colonies.
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New York was part of the 13 colonies.
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North Carolina was part of the 13 colonies.
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Rhode Island was part of the 13 colonies.
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Vermont was the first state to outlaw slavery.
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A tax was put on whiskey and people didn't like the tax so they started a war.
The Whiskey Rebellion was the first test of federal authority in the United States.
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More than $6 billion worth of gold is held in the underground vaults of Fort Knox. This is the largest amount of gold stored anywhere in the world.
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He wanted free compulsory public schools.
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Tennessee has more than 3,800 documented caves.
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Washington's farewell address stated that George would not seek a third term as president. In this speech he mentioned to the people to stay away from alliances with foreign nations and to save those alliances for emergencies only.
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She escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. On June 1, 1843, Isabella Baumfree changed her name to Sojourner Truth, devoting her life to Methodism and the abolition of slavery. In May of 1851 she gave her famous speech "ain't I a woman". She lived in battle creek for 24 years. Her speech was about how she thinks that women should have the same rights men.
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The Alien and Sedition Acts were four bills that were passed by the Federalists, signed into law by John Adams. The acts were designed by Federalists to limit the power of the republicians.
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He was mad because ther was slavery and he hated it. People thought that he was going to attack the anti-settlers on Pottawatomie creek. This resulted in him getting hung.
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William Marbury was a federalist. the people involved in the trial were William Marbury and James Madison. James Madison won the trial.
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Cleveland became the first city to be lighted by electricity.
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the United States purchased approximately 828,000,000 square miles of territory from France, thereby doubling the size of the young republic. The United States payed less that 3 cents per acer of land that they bought in the Louisiana purchase.
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Thomas Jefferson Army volunteers under the command of Captain Meriwether Lewis and his close friend Second Lieutenant William Clark. They went across the western part of the United States.
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William Lloyd Garrison was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer. He founded the NEW ENGLAND ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY the following year. In 1833, he met with delegates from around the nation to form the American Anti-Slavery Society.
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The town of Jean Lafitte was once a hideaway for pirates.
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United States vs Great Britain. The United States won. After the war the United States took power over Great Britain.
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She met Susan B. Anthony, they wrote articles on divorce, property rights, and temperence and adopted the Bloomer costume. By 1852, she and Susan B. Anthony were refining techniques for her to write speeches and Anthony to deliver them.
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Almost half of all cropland in Indiana is planted in corn.
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The Mississippi River is the largest in the United States and is the nation's chief waterway. Its nickname is Old Man River
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Illinois is known as the "Land of Lincoln" as Abraham Lincoln spent most of his life there.
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Maryland passed legislation to impose taxes on the bank. The people involved in this case were James W. McCulloch and the state of Maryland. In the end James W. McCulloch won with 7 votes. In the end Maryland did not have the power to tax the Bank.
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the New Hampshire legislature attempted to change Dartmouth College a privately funded institution into a state university. Dartmough college and William H. Woodward were involved in this case. Dartmough College stayed a privatly funded school. Dartmough College won with 5 votes.
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divided their North American claims along a line from the The southeastern corner of Louisiana (now), north and west to what is Wyoming (now), west along the latitude 42° N to the Pacific. Spain gave up Florida and renounced the Oregon Country in exchange for recognition of Spanish sovereignty over Texas.
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The only state with the major natural resources to make iron and steel, Alabama is the largest supplier of cast-iron and steel pipe products.
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Missouri admitted as a slave state. slavery would be admitted from any new states or territories above latitude 36 degrees, 30 minutes. They split the states free and slave states.
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More than nine-tenths of Maine's total land area is forested, the highest percentage of forest coverage of any state.
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The tallest monument built in the U.S., the Gateway Arch, in St. Louis, is 630 feet tall
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President Monroe gave the speech. no to Europe because we don't want any future colonization with europe.
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A New York state law gave to individuals the exclusive right to operate steamboats on waters within state jurisdiction. Thomas Gibbons and Aaron Ogden were involved in this case. the navigation by steamboat operators for purposes of conducting interstate commerce was to be decided by Congress. Thomas Gibbons won the case with 6 votes.
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This movement was to get rid of slaves and discrimination. Lyman Beecher, Nathaniel Taylor, and Charles G. Finney We're all big names in this movement.
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Nat Turner was a black american slave who led the only effective slave rebellion. He was hung in Jerusalem, Virginia, along with 16 of his followers
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The first woman elected to the U.S. Senate was from Arkansas Hattie Caraway
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The Great Lakes account for one-fifth of the world's surface freshwater supply.
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Andrew Jackson was president during the trail of tears. The white settlers who wanted to grow cotton on the Indians’ land, the federal government forced them to leave their homelands and walk thousands of miles to a Indian territory across the Mississippi River. This difficult and sometimes deadly journey is known as the Trail of Tears.
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Key West has the highest average temperature in the United States.
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The manifest destiny was to extend its influence beyond its continental boundaries into the Pacific and Caribbean basins.
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The Texas Rangers were organized in 1835 to protect the growing settlements from Indians and dangerous outlaws.
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United States declined to incorporate it into the union, largely because northern political interests were against the addition of a new slave state. The United states won the war. The united states won the land of Arizona, California, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, southwestern Colorado, and southwestern Wyoming.
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Iowa has historically placed a strong emphasis on education. In 2003, Iowa had the second highest average SAT scores by state, and tied for second highest average ACT scores.
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Two Rivers is the home of the ice cream sundae.
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The goal was to ha e recognition of women as equal members of society. He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise.He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she had no voice.He has withheld her from rights which are given to the most ignorant and degraded men. These are just some examples of the sentiments,
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Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton We're two main people helping at this convention. This was a Convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of women. The significance of this was that it was the first women's rights convection
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The California Redwood Trees are the tallest and largest living organisms in the world.
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Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, and became popular for his very good writing. In his speech "what to a slave, is the Fourth of July", he states that from a slaves perspective this date is a shame. In his speech he says ". . . To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity;. . ."
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He signed the Gadsden Purchase Treaty, giving the United States 45,000 square miles of northern Mexico -
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He supported the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision, which determined that slaves were not citizens of the United States regardless of what state (free or slave) they were living in -
Dred Scott was a slave in Missouri. Dred Scott and John F.A. Sanford were involved in theis case. The Court held the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, hoping to end the slavery question forever. John F.A. Sanford won with 7 votes.
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The Mall of America in Bloomington is over 9.5 million square feet in size.
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She escaped from slavery, then returned to slave-holding states many times to help other slaves escape. She led them safely to the northern free states and to Canada. She freed 70 slaves in about thirteen expeditions including her three other brothers, Henry, Ben, and Robert, their wives and some of their children. She also provided specific instructions to 50 to 60 slaves who escaped to the north too. Her Goal Was to become free and help other slaves be free and one day get her parents.
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In 1804, President Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to lead the first American overland expedition to strengthen the American claim to Oregon.
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she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. In 1856, she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society.
