The Formative Years

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  1. 6. document formally ending the American Revolutionary War
  2. 7. an armed uprising that took place in central and western Massachusetts in 1786 and 1787, caused by aggressive tax and debt collection
  3. 9. battle of the American Revolution, which ended the war
  4. 11. an agreement among the 13 founding states that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution
  5. 13. Supreme Court ruling, declaring the Judiciary Act of 1789 unconstitutional
  6. 14. Eli Whitney invented this in 1793
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  1. 1. chief justice appointed by John Adams
  2. 2. invented the steamboat
  3. 3. a collection of articles, written in opposition to the ratification of the 1787 United States Constitution
  4. 4. prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30′ north except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri
  5. 5. the collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution
  6. 8. 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
  7. 10. Rebellion a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791, during the presidency of George Washington
  8. 12. the acquisition by the United States of America in 1803 of 828,000 square miles of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana, more than doubling the current size of the United States