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- 3. The War of 1812 was a conflict fought between the United States and its allies, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain
- 4. Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, was established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of former black slaves
- 5. belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism
- 8. The Navigation Acts were a series of laws passed by the British Parliament that imposed restrictions on colonial trade
- 11. founding father who served as the third president
- 12. The United States Bill of Rights comprises the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution
- 14. was a proposal for the structure of the United States Government presented by William Paterson at the Constitutional Convention on June 15, 1787
- 17. was an American social reformer and abolitionist
- 18. war ended with the treaty of paris in 1763
- 20. an act of the British Parliament in 1765 to get revenue from America by imposing a stamp duty
- 22. On November 29, 1864, peaceful Southern Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians are massacred by a band of Colonel John Chivington's Colorado volunteers at Sand Creek, Colorado
- 23. was a proposal to the United States Constitutional Convention for the creation of a supreme national government with three branches and a bicameral legislature
- 27. a person that is anti slavery
- 28. This act, passed on July 1, 1862, provided Federal subsidies in land and loans for the construction of a transcontinental railroad across the United States
- 29. a series of forced relocations of approximately 60,ooo Native Americans
- 30. he was one of the founding fathers of the uninted states
- 31. was a small but pivotal for America on Christmas day
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- 1. was a former slave that tried to sue for freedom but was rejected because he was told he was property
- 2. The United States Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776
- 6. It was the first peaceful protest by the sons of liberty
- 7. founding father who was the first president
- 9. an estate on which crops such as coffee,sugar,and tobacco
- 10. was an American stage actor who assassinated President Lincoln
- 13. The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from France in 1803
- 15. fought in Appomattox County, Virginia, on the morning of April 9, 1865, was one of the last battles of the American Civil War
- 16. aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses
- 19. The Battle of the Little Bighorn, fought on June 25, 1876, near the Little Bighorn River in Montana Territory
- 21. In 1862, the Pacific Railroad Act chartered the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroad
- 24. A democratic republic is a form of government operating on principles adopted from a republic and a democracy
- 25. the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable
- 26. In response to Pontiac's Rebellion, a revolt of Native Americans led by Pontiac, an Ottawa chief