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Pre-Civil War Time
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History
12th Grade
12/14/2011
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The ideals that the colonists cherished as synonymous with American life included reverence for all of the following except
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opposition to slavery
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The Great Ice Age accounted for the origins of North America's human history because
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it exposed a land bridge connecting Eurasia with North America
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The size and sophistication of Native American civilizations in Mexico and South America can be attributed to
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Spanish influence
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The Iroquois Confederacy was able to menace its Native American and European neighbors because of
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its military alliance, sustained by political and organizational skills
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In the last half of the fifteenth century, some forth thousand Africans were force into slavery by Portugal and Spain to
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work on plantations on the Atlantic sugar islands
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The institution of encomienda allowed the
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European governments to give Indians to colonists if they promised to Christianize them
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The flood of precious metal from the New World to Europe resulted in
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the growth of capitalism
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Spain began to fortify and settle its North American border lands in order to
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protect its Central and South American domains from encroachments by England and France
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European voyages of discovery and exploration were facilitated by
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I, II, III, and IV
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The guarantee that English settlers in the New World would retain the "rights of Englishmen" proved to be
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the foundation of American liberties
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Spain's dreams of empire began to fade with the
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defeat of he Spanish Armada
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The early years at Jamestown were mainly characterized by
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starvation, disease, and frequent Indian raids
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The result of the Second Anglo-Powhatan War in 1644 can best be described as
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ending any chance of assimilating the native peoples into Virginia society
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The cultivation of tobacco in Jamestown resulted in all of the following except
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diversification of the colony's economy
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The summoning of Virginia's House of Burgesses marked an important precedent because it
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was the first of may miniature parliaments to convene in America
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At the outset, Lord Baltimore allowed some religious toleration in the Maryland colony because he
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hoped to secure freedom of worship for his fellow Catholics
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Under the Barbados slave code of 1661, slaves were
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denied the most fundamental rights
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By 1760, all the southern plantation colonies
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all of the above
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Arrange the following events in chronological order: the founding of (A) Georgia, (B) the Carolinas...
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CDBA
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King James I opposed the separatists who wanted to break away entirely from the Church of England because he
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realized that if his subjects could defy him in spiritual behavior, they could defy him as a political leader
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The Mayflower Compact can best be described as
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a promising step toward genuine self-government
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Unlike Separatists, Puritans
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remained members of the Church of England
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Puritan religious beliefs allowed all of the following except
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challenging religious authority
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As the founder of Rhode Island, Roger Williams
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established complete religious freedom for all
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The New England Indians' only hope for resisting English encroachment lay in
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intertribal unity against the English
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During the early years of colonization in the New World, England
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paid little attention to its colonies
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The New England Confederation
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was designed to bolster colonial defense
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As a result of Sir Edmund Andros's rule,
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taxes were levied without the consent of elected representatives
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The New England Confederation regarded Dutch New Netherland as
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an enemy to be wiped out
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All the middle colonies were
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notable for their fertile soil
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The population of the chesapeake colonies throughout the first half of the seventeenth century was notable for its
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scarcity for women
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Throughout the greater part of the seventeenth century, the Chesapeake colonies acquired most of the labor they needed from
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white servants
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The "headright" system, which made some people very wealthy, entailed
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giving the right to acquire fifty acres of land to the person paying the passage of a laborer to America
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The immediate cause of Bacon's Rebellion was
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Indian attacks on frontier settlements
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As a result of Bacon's Rebellion,
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planters began to look for less troublesome laborers
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After 1680, reliance on slave labor in colonial America rapidly increased because
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all of the above
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While slavery might have begun in America for economic reasons,
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racial discrimination powerfully molded the American slave system
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Most of the inhabitants of the colonial American South were
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landowning small farmers
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In seventeenth century colonial America all of the following were true regarding women except
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women had no rights as individuals
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Thomas Jefferson once observed that "the best school of political liberty the world ever saw" was the
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New England town meeting
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The Salem witchcraft trials were
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the result of unsettled social and religious conditions in rapidly evolving Massachusetts
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The English justified taking land from the native inhabitants on the grounds that the Indians
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wasted the earth by underutilizing its bounty
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Bacon's Rebellion stemmed from
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I and III only
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As a result of the rapid population growth in colonial America during the eighteenth century,
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a momentous shift occurred in the balance of power between the colonies and the mother country
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The population of the thirteen American colonies was
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perhaps the most diverse in the world, although it remained predominantly Anglo-Saxon.
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Regarding government, the Scots-Irish colonists
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cherished no love for the British or any other government
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In contrast to the seventeenth century, by 1775 colonial Americans
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had become more stratified into social classes and had less social mobility
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One feature of the American economy that strained the relationship between the colonies and Britain was the
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British demand to halt the importation of slaves
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When the British Parliament passed the Molasses Act in 1733, it intended the act to
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inhibit colonial trade with the French West Indies
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Colonial American taverns were all of the following except
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hotbeds of agitation for the Revolutionary movement
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By the early eighteenth century, religion in colonial America was
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less fervid than when the colonies were established
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The Great Awakening
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all of the above
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The jury's decision in the case of John Peter Zenger, a newspaper printer, was significant because
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it pointed the way to freedom of expression
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By 1775, most governors of American colonies were
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appointed by the king
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One political principle that colonial Americans came to cherish above most others was
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self-taxation through representation
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The American Revolution was
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an example of accelerated evolution rather than outright revolution
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The Founding Fathers failed to eliminate slavery because
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a fight over slavery might destroy national unity
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The most important outcome of the Revolution for white women was that they
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were elevated to a newly prestigious role as special keepers of the nation's conscience
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As written documents, the state constitutions were intended to represent a fundamental law
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superior to ordinary legislation
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The economic status of the average American at the end of the Revolutionary War was
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probably worse than before the war
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The major issue that delayed ratification of the Articles of Confederation concered
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western lands
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The Articles of Confederation left Congress unable to
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enforce a tax-collection program
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A major strength of the Articles of Confederation was its
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presentation of the ideal of a united union
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One of the most farsighted provisions of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787
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prohibited slavery in the Old Northwest
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Shay's Rebellion was provoked by
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foreclosures on the mortgages of backcountry farmers
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Shay's Rebellion convinced many Americans of the need for
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a stronger central government
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Under the Articles of Confederation, the relationship between the thirteen states
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convinced many that a strong central government was needed
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The debate between supporters and critics of the Articles of Confederation centered on how to
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reconcile states' rights with strong national government
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The issue that finally touched off the movement toward the constitutional Convention was
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control of commerce
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The Constitutional Convention was called to
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revise the Articles of Confederation
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The delegates at the constitutional Convention were concerned mainly with
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protecting America from its weaknesses abroad and its excesses at home
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The "large state plan" put forward in the Constitutional Convention worked out an acceptable scheme for
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apportioning congressional representation
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Most, if not all, of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention were
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I, II, and IV only
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Major goals of the delegates at the Constitutional Convention included
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II, III, and IV only
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Most, if not all of the new state constitutions
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I, II, III, and IV
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The antifederalist camp included all of the following groups except
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supporters of a strong central government
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Probably the most alarming characteristic of the new Constitution to those who opposed it was the
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absence of a bill or rights
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Regarding central authority, early Americans saw it as all of the following except
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something to be ultimately eliminated
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The new Constitution did not provide for the creation of a(n)
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cabinet
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One of the major criticisms of the Constitution as drafted in Philadelphia was that it
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did not provide guarantees for individual rights
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What Amendment might rightly be called the "states' rights" amendment?
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Tenth
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Hamilton believed hat, together, his funding and assumption programs would
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gain the monetary and moral support of the wealthy class for the federal government
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As Secratary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton's first objective was to
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bolster the national credit
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Alexander Hamilton believed that a limited national debt
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was beneficial, because people to whom the government owed money would work hard to make the nation a success
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Alexander Hamilton's proposed bank of the United States was
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based on the "necessary and proper," or "elastic," clause in the Constitution
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Alexander Hamilton's Bank of the United States was modeled on the
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Bank of England
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The founding fathers had not envisioned the existence of permanent political parties because they
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saw opposition to the government as disloyal
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Opposition by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison to the financial plan of Alexander Hamilton resulted in
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the formation of permanent political parties
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