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| Council of Indians who agreed to fight the Colonist/Americans |
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| Kings Commision (of Inquiry) |
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| British trying to get U.S. to repay losses that loyalist incurred during the war |
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| Escaped slave that makes his own declaration of independence; found Sierra Leone |
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Patriots who believed that the faith of all human liberty/freedom was in our hands |
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| Patriotic women who helped America be less dependent on British Textiles by suppling clothes, blankets, etc. to troops during the American Revolution War |
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2nd president of the United States and a leader in the American Revolution |
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| Northwest Ordinance of 1785 |
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| an ordinance that divided highly disputed land into a series of townships and sections; plots of land were sold very cheaply to the settlers |
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| laws that suspended the collection of debts by their citizens |
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An uprising in Mass. in 1786, lead by Daniel Shay and poor farmers who opposed high taxes, and taxes on land |
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| The United States Congress, consisting of two houses; the Senate and the House of Reps. |
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| a plan providing for a single legislative house with equal representation for each state; a plan that would help the smaller states |
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| A plan drafted by James Madison, which provided for a two-house legislature with proportional representation, and each house chosen by the legislature |
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A mixture of both the New Jersey Plan and the Virgina Plan; the legislature will be bicameral and based on population. Each state will have an equal number of Senators |
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| a law that required escaped slaves to be sent back to their original owners |
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| people who were against the ratification of the constitution |
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| a formal statement of the rights of the American people, found in the American Constitution in Amendments 1-10 |
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| A rebellion of farmers in western Penslyvania, who were against the tax on whiskey |
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| the kidnapping of American sailors to work for the British ships |
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| French Diplomat, who went to America to get support for the French and eventually gets kicked out of the country |
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a treaty with Spain giving the United States, navigation privaleges on the Mississippi River |
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| a diplomatic incident that almost led to war against the U.S. and France; America sent three American agents to negotiate whith France, which failed |
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the president had the power to deport any resident alien who was threat to the U.S.. Anyone who aids in unlawful assemble or communicates against the governments beliefs would be arrested |
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| a document drafted by Thomas Jefferson which states that the government is violating the bill of rights |
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| freed African American mathematician and astronomer who laid out the streets and buildings of Washington D.C. |
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| Designer of the U.S. capitol |
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When the U.S. bought the port of New Orleans and much of the Mississippi Valley from the French; double d the size of the United States |
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| two men appointed by Thomas Jefferson to explore the new land bought from the Louisiana Purchase |
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| The Cherokee Indians modeled their governmment after the New World government in hope to be left alone by the New World |
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| the "head" Indian leader in the early 1800's to fight off American settlers |
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| American Revolutionary War general who was sent to the Ohio/Indiana territories in an effort to stop Indian tribes |
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| young patriots who wanted to go to war with England before the War of 1812 |
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| The war against the United States and Great Britain from 1812-1815 in which the United States won |
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| the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 |
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| a policy that stated that European powers weren't allowed to colonize or interfere with the United States |
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a compromise in which Missouri was a slave state, Maine a free state, and slavery was prohibited in the Louisiana Purchase north of 36* |
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