American History

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  1. 4. was a key American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence
  2. 8. was a land deal between the United States and France, where the U.S. bought approximately 828,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for \(\$15\) million.
  3. 9. Muslim privateers and pirates operating from North Africa's "Barbary Coast"
  4. 10. was the first U.S. presidential contest between organized political parties
  5. 11. an agreement between the United States and Spain that ceded Florida to the U.S. and defined a clear, negotiated border between the two nations, securing U.S. claims to the Pacific Northwest
  6. 12. a treaty between the U.S. and Britain that settled disputes after the War of 1812
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  1. 1. was the fourth Chief Justice of the United States
  2. 2. US foreign policy declaring the Western Hemisphere off-limits to further European colonization.
  3. 3. prohibited all American ships from trading with foreign nations
  4. 5. is a landmark Supreme Court case that established the principle of judicial review in the United States.
  5. 6. a conflict between the United States and Great Britain caused by trade restrictions, the impressment of American sailors, and British support for Native American raids
  6. 7. a landmark U.S. mission commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Territory and the Pacific Northwest