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- THE OTTAWA CHIEF WHO LED ANINDIAN UPRISING AGAINST BRITISHFORTS AND SETTLEMENTS IN THEGREAT LAKES REGION AND THE OHIORIVER VALLEY FOLLOWING THEFRENCH AND INDIAN WAR
- LED BY THE FORMER HAITIAN SLAVECHARLES DESLONDES, THE LARGESTSLAVE REBELLION IN UNITED STATES,WHICH TOOK PLACE IN LOUISIANA IN1811
- THE NAME GIVEN TO THE US POLICYOF BARRING AND EXCLUDINGEUROPEAN POWERS FROMCOLONIZING THE AMERICAS
- INVENTED BY ELI WHITNEY, THISMACHINE MADE IT EASIER TO REMOVETHE SEEDS FROM COTTON, MAKINGCOTTON CULTIVATION MOREPROFITABLE
- THIS 1795 AGREEMENT SAW LITTLETURTLE'S CONFEDERACY SIGN MOSTOF OHIO OVER TO THE UNITEDSTATES
- WRITTEN IN 1789 BY THOMASJEFFERSON, THIS DOCUMENT GAVE ASTATEMENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS ONBEHALF OF THE FRENCH PEASANTRY
- DURING THE WAR OF 1812, NEWENGLAND FEDERALISTS MET IN THISCITY TO DISCUSS SECESSION FROMTHE UNION AND AN ALLIANCE WITHGREAT BRITAIN
- FINISHED IN 1825, THIS MANMADEWATERWAY MOVED PEOPLE, CROPS,AND MANUFACTURED GOODSBETWEEN ALBANY, NEW YORK, ANDBUFFALO, NEW YORK
- DISTRACTED BY EVENTS IN HAITI,THIS EUROPEAN MONARCH SOLD THELOUISIANA TERRITORY TO THEUNITED STATES FOR $15 MILLION
- THIS DEMOCRATIC-REPUBLICANPRESIDENT ASKED CONGRESS FOR ADECLARATION OF WAR AGAINSTGREAT BRITAIN IN 1812
- HISTORIANS USE THIS TWO-WORDTERM TO DESCRIBE THE BEWILDERINGCHANGES THAT ACCOMPANIED RAPIDINDUSTRIALIZATION ANDCOMMERCIALIZATION DURING THEFIRST HALF OF THE NINETEENTHCENTURY
- THIS VIRGINIA-BORN PRESIDENTPRESIDED OFDEMOCRATIC-REPUBLICAN POLITICALDOMINANCE KNOWN AS THE "ERA OFGOOD FEELINGS"
- THE ENLIGHTENMENT-ERA RELIGIOUSBELIEF THAT COMPARED GOD TO ANABSENT WATCHMAKER WHO SET THEUNIVERSE IN MOTION AND THEN LEFTIT TO ITS OWN DEVICES
- THE YOUNG, AMBITIOUS VIRGINIANWHO LED AN UNSUCCESSFULCAMPAIGN TO RETAKE FORTDUQUESNE IN 1754
- THE NAME GIVEN TO NINETEENTHCENTURY AMERICAN WOMEN WHOCONSIDERED THEMSELVESRESPONSIBLE FOR RAISING ANDEDUCATING THE NEXT GENERATIONOF REPUBLICAN LEADERS ANDPATRIOTS
- THIS EUROPEAN COLONIAL POWERWANTED TO CONTROL THE OHIORIVER VALLEY FOR THE PURPOSE OFCONTROLLING THE FUR TRADE WITHINDIANS
- THIS EUROPEAN COLONIAL POWERWANTED THE CONTROL THE OHIORIVER VALLEY FOR THE PURPOSE OFPLANTING TOBACCO
- MOST OF THE IMMIGRANTS WHOSETTLED IN THE UNITED STATESDURING THE FIRST HALF OF THENINETEENTH CENTURY CAME FROMTHESE TWO COUNTRIES.
- THE TERM APPLIED BY HISTORIANS TOAMERICANS WHO OPPOSED GERMANAND IRISH IMMIGRATION DURING THEFIRST HALF OF THE NINETEENTHCENTURY
- THE ENGLISH MINISTER WHOTRAVELED FROM NEW YORK TOCHARLESTON, STAGINGREVIVALS