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Alexander Hamilton had a degree in ...
Medicine
Andrew Jackson
Hero at the Battle of New Orleans.
Name of the treaty that ended the War of 1812
Treaty of Ghent
Thomas Jefferson signed an act outlawing the importation of foreign slaves from Africa as of (year)
1808
Skillfully negotiated the Franco-American alliance of 1778
Benjamin Franklin
These two planned to start a revolt in the lower Mississippi River valley and declare it an independent republic.
Aaron Burr and General James Wilkinson
Proclaimed that his state of Kentucky was ready to march on Canada and rid the Northwest of its so-called Indian problem?
Henry Clay
This document, drafted in 1775, was the last attempt to patch things up with the British crown.
the Olive Branch Petition
Crafted by Pennsylvania's Benjamin Franklin
the Plan of Union or the Albany Plan
Those colonial congressmen who signed the Declaration of Independence committed a capital offence of ...
treason
Their detailed maps enabled the government to claim Oregon Country by right of discovery and exploration.
Lewis and Clark
The Louisiana Purchase was made possible by ...
Napoléon’s disastrous setback in Haiti
When Bostonians learned of the impending seizure of their military supplies at Concord, they sent two messengers to incite the countryside. What were their names?
William Dawes and Paul Revere
How did southern slaveholders react to the Haitian Revolution?
They panicked, fearing slave uprisings would spread to their region, and aided the French planters’ efforts to regain control in the colony.
How did the American congress obtain money to finance the American Revolution?
They borrowed from the American people, from the Dutch, from Spain, and the French.
The first election in U.S. history that resulted in an orderly transfer of power from one political party to another.
The Election of 1800
This Supreme Court case established the principle of judicial review
Marbury v. Madison
This city was considered by the colonists and the British the cradle of the rebellion.
Boston
A term describing British warships stopping American merchant ships and forcing sailors into the British navy
impressment
Shawnee leader Tecumseh helped cause the War of 1812 by doing what?
He worked to unite Indians in a vast confederacy allied with the British.
This Act failed to intimidate either France or Great Britain, but did destroy the U.S. economy.
The Embargo Act
In May 1806, the British Parliament passed the Orders in Council, which ...
blockaded the European coast to prevent shipping from the United States and other nations.
When the British dispatched to America the largest force they had ever assembled, some of the soldiers were mercenaries from ....
Germany or Hesse
Considered the first large-scale modern deportation
the forced removal of Acadians (Cajuns) from Nova Scotia
What portion of the European American population rejected independence from Great Britain?
At least 1/5