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Delaware was the first state
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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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Massachusettes 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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He was the first president of the United States
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North Carolina was part of the 13 colonies
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Rhode Island was the last of the 13 colonies
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The Whiskey Rebellion, or Whiskey Insurrection, was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791, during the presidency of George Washington. The Whiskey Rebellion demonstrated that the new national government had the will and the ability to suppress violent resistance to its laws. The whiskey excise remained difficult to collect, however. The events contributed to the formation of political parties in the United States, a process already underway.
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Vermont was the first state to outlaw slavery
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.Tennessee won its nickname as The Volunteer State during the War of 1812 when volunteer soldiers from Tennessee displayed marked valor in the Battle of New Orleans.
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Advice and warning to the American people about their long-term safety and happiness. Washington warned of the dangers facing the young republic
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Born in New York circa 1797, Sojourner Truth was the self-given name, from 1843 onward, of Isabella Baumfree, an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. Her role in aboloshment was to get rid of discrimination against women. speech deliverd in 1851
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John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were the only two founding Fathers that signed the Declaration of Independence and then went on to become President of America
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The Alien and Sedition Acts were four bills that were passed by the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress. Authored by the Federalists, the laws were purported to strengthen national security, but critics argued that they were primarily an attempt to suppress voters who disagreed with the Federalist party. The laws were passed in preparation for the anticipated war with France
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Some of his big cases were Marbury v. Madison, McCullouch v. Maryland, and Fletcher v. Peck
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During his term of presidency he worked persistently to keep the United States out of the French Napoleonic Wars
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Garrison was an abolitionist against slavery. The liberater took place in 1831. HIs goal was to abolish slavery.
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The Louisiana Purchase encompassed 530,000,000 acres of territory in North America that the United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million.
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Marbury went to the Supreme Court in an attempt to gain his post. He wanted the Court to issue an order forcing Madison to give Marbury his commission
William Marbury v. James Madison
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In 1852 Ohio was the first state to have laws protecting working women
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Lewis, Clark, and some soldiers
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When the White House was destroyed during the 1812 War, the rest of James Madison's presidency was served from city's Octagon House
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Louisiana was named in honor of King Louis XIV.
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President of national woman suffrage Assosiation for 20 years. Held the seneca falls convention in july 1848.
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During the great Depression of the 1930's 1 in every 4 Hoosier factory hands was out of work, farmers sank deeper in debt, and in southern Indiana unemployment was as high as 50%.
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James Monroe was nicknamed 'The Last Cocked Hat'! The term 'Cocked Hats' was given to the presidents who played significant roles in the American revolution of independence; James Monroe was the last of these and as such became 'The Last Cocked Hat'
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Mississippi was the first state in the nation to have a planned system of junior colleges.
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he real subject of his speech, he concedes, is American slavery. He condemns America for being untrue to its founding principles, its past, and its present. The audience must fulfill what the founders of the country advocated. To the slave, Douglass tells the audience, "your 4th of July is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license [for enslaving blacks] . . . your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery."
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Illinois was the first state to ratify the 13th amendmant to the constitution aboloshing slavery in 1865
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A treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that gave Florida to the U.S. and set out a boundary between the U.S. and New Spain
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The underground railroad was a group of people that helped free slaves by keeping them in secret rooms in barns and houses. It freed lots of american slaves. This took place all in the south. Hariett tubman was a key player
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The fact that the government had commissioned the charter did not transform the school into a civil institution.
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James McCulloch v. The State of Maryland, John James
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The confederate flag was designed and first flown in Alabama in 1861
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The law prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana territory
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Joined womens rights movememnt in 1852. She dedicated her life to women soffrage.
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Maine lies farther northeast than any other state
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In 1865 Missouri became the first slave state to free it's slaves
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It stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention.At the same time, the doctrine noted that the United States would neither interfere with existing European colonies nor meddle in the internal concerns of European countries.
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Along with playing a key role in formulating the Monroe Doctrine John Quincy Adams dealt with negotiations behind the Treaty of Ghent this consequently ended the War of 1812 with Great Britain
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Andrew Jackson was the first and only president that has paid off the national debt, he did this in 1835
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The goal of the Abolitionist Movement was the immediate emancipation of all slaves and the end of racial discrimination and segregation. William lloyd garisson was a leasder.
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His group wanted to have free schooling and educate the youth of America
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Nat Turner's Rebellion (also known as the Southampton Insurrection) was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, during August 1831. Led by Nat Turner, rebel slaves killed anywhere from 55 to 65 people, the highest number of fatalities caused by any slave uprising in the American South.
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Established near the mouth of the Arkansas River in 1686, Arkansas Post was the first permanent white settlement in the state.
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In 1817 the University of Michigan was the first university established by any of the states
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During his presidency over 15,000 native Indians were forced to leave their territory, this mass convoy was called the “Trail of Tears”; it was a catastrophic time for the native Indians and resulted in over 4,000 deaths
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A law was passed that allowed whites to push Indians out of their territory somlots of Indians were told to leave there land and had to walk thousands of miles. Many people died
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William Harrison is remembered as the first President to die in office he only served 30 days of Presidency, making it this shortest term of Presidency in American History
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He played a key role during the Second Seminole War, which is also known as the Florida War. It was a battle between different groups of Native Americans who called themselves the 'Seminoles'. After the conflict Florida was admitted to the Union
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During the 1991 Gulf War the busiest military port in the country was Jacksonville. From this location the military moved more supplies and people than any oth
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James Knox Polk placed a ban on alcohol, liquor and dancing in the White House
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Texas is the only state to have the flags of 6 different nations fly over it. They are: Spain, France, Mexico, Republic of Texas, Confederate States, and the United States.
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we were fighting the Mexican-American war to gain independance over alta califormia and new mexico. We won and gained that land in exchange for $15 million dollars.
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Iowa State University is the oldest land grant college in the U.S.A.
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In 1882 the first hydroelectric plant in the United States was built at Fox River.
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Goal- first womens rights convention in the us to petition for equal rights for women.
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The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman".
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In 1850 Zachary Taylor was considered to be the most popular man in America, and a hero of the Mexican-American War
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Millard Fillmore was recognised for his agreement to the Compromise of 1850, which authorized slavery in the South. Eventually this law collapsed as contracts between the North and South could not be agreed
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San Francisco Bay is considered the world's largest landlocked harbor
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During Franklin Pierce's presidency the Kansas-Nebraska Bill was created, this defined the Kansas-Nebraska territories and bought new opportunities for settlers and transportation
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Historians have rated James Buchanan as the least effective out of all the presidents
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The first open heart surgery and the first bone marrow transplant in the United States were done at the University of Minnesota.
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Oregon has more ghost towns than any other state.
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He as send in a movie theatre April 15, 1865
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The Manifest destiny is term for the attitude prevelant during the 19th century period of American expansion that the United states not only could, but was destined to, stretch from coast to coast. The attitude helped fuel western settlement, native american removal, and the war with mexico.
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Brown wanted to abolish slavery, After an unsuccsesful try to abolish slavery, he was captured and killed. After his death, in 1859 slaves began to fight their owners in harpers ferry, virginia.
