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| treaty which spain ceded florida to the united states it was ratified in 1821 and it ended spanish claims to the vast pacific coast territory. |
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| authorized the president to arrest and deport immigrants who critized the federal government it was passed in1798 |
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| favored ratification of the constitution james madison alexander hamilton john jay were all leading fedaralists |
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| Pinckney's Treaty, also known as the Treaty of San Lorenzo or the Treaty of Madrid, was signed in San Lorenzo de El Escorial on October 27, 1795 and established intentions of friendship between the United States and Spain. |
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| kentucky was part of virginia they split what we know now as west virginia |
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| A group of zealous young Southern and Western members of the House of Representatives known as the “war hawks” seized the initiative from President James Madison in 1812 and prodded the nation into war with Great Britain. |
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| conflict arising from U.S. grievances over oppressive British maritime practices in the Napoleonic Wars. To enforce its blockade of French ports, the British boarded U.S. and other neutral ships to check cargo they suspected was being sent to France and to impress seamen alleged to be British navy deserters. |
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| Diplomatic incident between the U.S. and France. Pres. John Adams sent special envoys Elbridge Gerry and John Marshall to France to help Charles C. Pinckney negotiate an agreement to protect U.S. shipping from French privateers. |
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| term invoked by Kentucky representative Henry Clay in his 30–31 March 1824 speech to Congress as part of his argument for a higher tariff. |
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| refers to the Supreme Court of the United States between 1801 and 1835, when John Marshall served as Chief Justice. |
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| (July 1920, 1848) Assembly held at Seneca Falls, N.Y., that launched the U.S. woman suffrage movement. |
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| Series of measures passed by the U.S. Congress to settle slavery issues and avert secession. |
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| war (1846-1848) between the United States and Mexico, resulting in the cession by Mexico of lands now constituting all or most of the states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado. |
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(May 28, 1830) First major legislation that reversed the U.S. policy of respecting the rights of American Indians. |
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| U.S. foreign-policy statement first enunciated by Pres. James Monroe on Dec. 2, 1823, declaring the Western Hemisphere off-limits to European colonization. |
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| literary and philosophical movement, associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller, asserting the existence of an ideal spiritual reality that transcends the empirical and scientific and is knowable through intuition. |
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| (1842) Treaty between the U.S. and Britain establishing the northeastern boundary of the U.S. Negotiated by U.S. secretary of state Daniel Webster and Britain's ambassador Lord Ashburton, it also provided for Anglo-U.S. cooperation in the suppression of the slave trade. |
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| Identical components that can substitute one for another, particularly important in manufacturing. Mass production, which transformed the organization of work, came about by the development of the machine-tool industry by a series of 19th-century innovators |
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| First overland expedition to the U.S. Pacific coast and back, led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Initiated by Pres. Thomas Jefferson, the expedition set out to find an overland route to the Pacific, documenting its exploration through the new Louisiana Purchase. |
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| kind of social movement that aims to make gradual change, or change in certain aspects of society, rather than rapid or fundamental changes. |
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| U.S. political party. Organized by opponents of Pres. Andrew Jackson, whom they called King Andrew, the party took its name from the British antimonarchist party. |
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| The act of changing for the better; improvement: "Society may sometimes show signs of repentance and amendment |
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| A Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War for political or financial advantage. |
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| A Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War for political or financial advantage. |
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| With the end of the Civil War and the abolition of slavery by the Thirteenth Amendment (ratified 1865), the Confederate states sought readmission to the Union and to Congress. Under Article I, section 2 of the Constitution, a slave had been counted as three‐fifths of a person for purposes of representation. Because of the abolition of slavery, Southern states expected a substantial increase in their representation in the House of Representatives. The Union, having won the war, feared it might lose the peace. |
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| Political doctrine that allowed the settlers of U.S. federal territories to decide whether to enter the Union as free or slave states. It was applied by Sen. Stephen A. Douglas as a means to reach a compromise through passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. |
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| The framers of the Fifteenth Amendment, ratified in 1870, intended that it would enfranchise most black American males. Actually, African‐Americans had voted in several states in the North for almost a century |
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| A decision of the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, ruling against Dred Scott to make slavery legal in all territories, the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, and Congress powerless to prohibit |
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| used to describe runty or diseased cattle, was the term of opprobrium applied to white southerners who joined with former slaves and carpet-baggers in support of Republican policies during the Reconstruction period that followed the Civil War. |
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| sixteenth president of the United States. Abraham Lincoln is an ambiguous figure in history and literature, with much disagreement centered on his beliefs and actions regarding African Americans. |
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| During the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln makes a public address in which he dedicates a cemetery for soldiers that lost their lives in a pivotal conflict of the war. |
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| work (land) or grow (crops) as a sharecropper. |
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| military strategy to defeat the Confederacy proposed in 1861 by the Commanding General of the Union Army, Gen. Winfield Scott. |
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| William Jennings Bryan delivered his powerful words, "You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold," on 8 July 1896 at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. |
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| church founded by Joseph Smith at Palmyra in western New York in 1830 and having its headquarters since 1847 in Salt Lake City, Utah. |
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| The Dawes General Allotment (Severalty) Act, February 8, 1887, converted all Indian tribal lands to individual ownership in an attempt to facilitate the assimilation of Indians into the white culture. |
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| The ancient, stable, interior layer of a continental craton composed of igneous or metamorphic rocks covered by a thin layer of sedimentary rock. |
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Twisted strands of fence wire with barbs at regular intervals.
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An association of farmers founded in the United States in 1867.
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The use of a monetary standard consisting of two metals, especially gold and silver, in a fixed ratio of value.
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An act passed by Congress in 1862 promising ownership of a 160-acre tract of public land to a citizen or head of a family who had resided on and cultivated the land for five years after the initial claim.
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house with walls made of strips of sod laid horizontally in courses like bricks.
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stands as a watershed law in the history of the federal regulation of business.
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contiguous network of railroad trackage[1] that crosses a continental land mass with terminals at different oceans or continental borders
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The American Federation of Labor (afl) was organized as an association of trade unions in 1886, growing out of an earlier Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions founded in 1881.
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sometimes referred to as the Great Upheaval, began on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, United States and ended some 45 days later after it was put down by local and state militias, and federal troops.
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sometimes referred to as the Great Upheaval, began on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, United States and ended some 45 days later after it was put down by local and state militias, and federal troops.
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A method for making steel by blasting compressed air through molten iron to burn out excess carbon and impurities.
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Establishment, as of a person in a business or of people in a new region.
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1914 federal consumer protection legislation that prohibits certain monopolistic practices and other impediments to free market competition, including price discrimination, mergers that may lessen competition, tying agreements and exclusive dealings.
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Form of business organization in which all stages of production of a good, from the acquisition of raw materials to the retailing of the final product, are controlled by one company.
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U.S. Army appropriations bill stipulating conditions for withdrawing of U.S. troops remaining in Cuba after the Spanish-American War.
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An amendment sponsored by Republican senator Henry M. Teller and adopted by Congress on April 20, 1898. It authorized the use of U.S. military force to establish Cuban independence from Spain.
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The theory and system of political economy prevailing in Europe after the decline of feudalism, based on national policies of accumulating bullion, establishing colonies and a merchant marine, and developing industry and mining to attain a favorable balance of trade.
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| Movement for racial equality in the U.S. that, through nonviolent protest, broke the pattern of racial segregation in the South and achieved equal rights legislation for blacks. Following the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954), African American and white supporters attempted to end entrenched segregationist practices. |
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| As a major figure of the Harlem Renaissance, Marcus Garvey was in the vanguard of the new awakening among African Americans. |
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