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- 3. fourth president of the United States (1809–17) and one of the Founding Fathers of his country; he sponsored the first 10 amendments to the Constitution, commonly called the Bill of Rights.
- 4. a common national personification of the federal government of the United States or the country in general
- 7. military hero and seventh president of the United States; his face is on the twenty-dollar bill
- 10. to be included as part of something such as a plan, calculation, etc.
- 12. a state of the E central US: consists of a plain in the west, rising to the Appalachians and the Cumberland Plateau in the east. Capital: Nashville.
- 13. a Native American people formerly living in and around the Appalachian Mountains, now chiefly in Oklahoma; one of the Iroquois peoples
- 14. a port in SE Louisiana, on the Mississippi River: the largest city in the state and the second most important port in the US; founded by the French in 1718; famous for its annual Mardi Gras festival and for its part in the history of jazz
- 15. Maryland’s most populous city; Edgar Allan Poe lived and in buried there; its important landmarks include the first Washington Monument and first Catholic cathedral in the United States
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- 1. showing feelings of liking or love
- 2. the state of understanding and realizing something, aware of what is around you or the fact of noticing the existence of something
- 5. (star-... banner) the national anthem of the United States
- 6. (Trail of ...) the deadly route Native Americans were forced to follow when they were pushed off their ancestral lands and into new territories west of the Mississippi River
- 8. consisting of parts or things that are very different from each other
- 9. the elected group of politicians that is responsible for making the law in the United States. It consists of two parts: the House of Representatives and the Senate.
- 11. to worsen a problem