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The War for Independence officially ended with the signing of this document.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
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This is what impeachment is.
What is the official filing of charges against a high ranking government official?
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He was the first vice-president.
Who is John Adams?
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This was when the Battle of New Orleans was fought.
What is after the War of 1812 was officially over.
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He was president during the "Era of Good Feelins".
Who is James Monroe?
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He was the British officer who surrendered to Washington at Yorktown.
Who is General Charles Cornwallis?
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This is how a census affects the Congress.
What is it determines the number of people living in each state to be able to set the number of representatives in the House of Representatives for each state?
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This is what the western farmers in Pennsylvania, in 1794, were angry about.
What is a whiskey tax?
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He was the first president inaugurated in Washington, D. C..
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
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This was who the supposed "corrupt bargain" was between.
Who are John Adams and Henry Clay?
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The Declaration of Independence was written primarily by him.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
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He was the "Father of the Constitution".
Who is James Madison?
300
The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions asserted the right of this.
What is nullification?
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This is why Jefferson was hesitant to accept the Louisiana Purchase.
What is that the Constitution did not specifically give him the authority to do so?
300
That is what mestizos are.
What is people who are half-Indian and half-European?
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This is why the Patriots tried to invade Canada.
What is because the Patriots hoped that the French Canadians resented the English enough to want to join them and thereby cut off Britain's northern route into the American colonies.
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This is the difference between a republic and a democracy.
What is in a republic the people vote for people to represent them, and those people run the government. In a pure democracy the people have a direct say on the running of the government.
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The presidential election of 1800 was unusual for this reason.
What is that because the Constitution was unclear about voting for president and vice-president, Aaron Burr was able to claim the presidency as well as Thomas Jefferson. The vote was pushed to the House of Representatives where it took 36 ballots to decide the issue.
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These six outcomes are how the War of 1812 affected the United States.
What is: 1) Other nations gave us more respect. 2) It gave us a greater sense of nationalism. 3) New heroes emerged from the fields of battle, several of whom would become US presidents. 4) America developed a lot of its own industry becoming less dependent on Europe. 5) The end of fighting between France and Britain gave America almost a century of not being dragged into conflicts. We were able to focus on settling the West. 6) Both political parties were affected. The Democratic-Republican party changed its stance on several issues, and teh Federalist party faded away.
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This is how the US came to acquire Florida.
What is Spain was losing control of its land in west Florida and all of upper Florida was becoming a haven for outlaws and smugglers. When the US told Spain to police its territory, it refused so General Andrew Jackson invaded and took control of several cities. Spain demanded money for restitution, we refused, so they ended up selling us Florida in the Adam-Onis treaty.
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These were the various attitude of people in the colonies toward the War for Independence, and their reasons behind these attitudes.
What is the Patriots (for the War) thought that King George III had neglected his duties toward them, thereby forfeiting his right to rule, giving them a just reason to fight for independence. The loyalists (against the War) did not want to lose the revenue from trading with England, did not want to fight against their relatives, and did not believe man had the right to fight against a King that God had put over them as ruler. The neutral, or undecided people, did not want to be involved unless it directly affected them, did not want to fight their fellow Englishmen, and did not want to be bothered if they could get away with it.
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These were the weaknesses of the Articles of the Confederation.
What is it did not have the power to tax nor raise money for itself. It had to ask for money from the states. It was unable to raise an army or police force to enforce its decisions and was unable to regulate the printing of money and coins.
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This is how John Marshall influenced the power of the Supreme Court.
What is he set the power of judicial review, ability to regulate interstate commerce, and convinced the jurors on the Supreme Court to meet in private and give one unified view to the public.
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This is what the British did to provoke the US into war in 1812.
What is attacking our ships at sea, ignoring our position of neutrality, impressing our sailors, and inciting the Native Americans to attack our outposts and settlers along the frontier?
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This was what "the Era of Good Feeling" was.
What is the political parties in the US were not squabbling, the nations overseas were not at war, and the sectional differences between the North and South were calm?