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- 3. a massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho people by the U.S. Army
- 6. political protest by the sons of liberty where they threw 18.5 million bags of tea in the harbor.
- 8. this ended the war between the United States and Mexico
- 11. a founding father of the United States and who played a key role in defending and ratifying the U.S. Constitution.
- 13. this broke up tribal lands by partitioning them into individual plots and the Native Americans who accepted the US rules were allowed to become US citizens.
- 14. a conflict fought between the United States and Great Britain because the United states wanted to expand.
- 15. belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism
- 18. this is where the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress that the colonies are separated from the kings law
- 19. the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body
- 20. an act regulating stamp duty on newspaper,legal and commercial documents
- 21. the military general of the continental army and first president of the United States
- 23. a form of democracy in which people decide on policy initiatives directly
- 24. a series of forced relocations of 60,000 Native Americans
- 25. this was if the southern states didn't stop rebelling ,their slaves would be freed
- 26. a proposal for the structure of the United States Government presented by William Paterson in response to the Virginia plan
- 29. former slave who was a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York known for his writing
- 30. a conflict between the United States and Mexico over land
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- 1. pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France
- 2. comprises the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution guaranteeing rights such as the freedoms of speech, assembly, and worship.
- 4. a person who favors the destruction of a practice or institution, especially capital punishment or (formerly) slavery.
- 5. a pivotal battle during the American Revolutionary War that happened on the morning of December 26, 1776 led by George Washington
- 7. an estate on which cash crops are cultivated by resident labor (slaves)
- 9. British law aimed at ending the smuggling in of sugar and molasses
- 10. this was a Indian Victory that painted them as killers or vicious animals
- 12. the third president of the U.S who doubled the size of the country with the Louisiana Purchase
- 16. young king of England during the revolutionary war
- 17. anyone born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States
- 22. African American man who unsuccessfully sued for hid freedom
- 27. a process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a dominant group or assume the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group
- 28. a proposal to the United States Constitutional Convention for the creation of a supreme national government with three branches and a bicameral legislature.