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- THIS FRENCH MILITARY COMMANDERANGERED HIS INDIAN ALLIES BYREFUSING THEIR REQUEST TO LOOTFORTS OSWEGO AND WILLIAM HENRYAND TAKE CAPTIVES
- THE TERM COINED BY HISTORIAN IRABERLIN TO DESCRIBE SOCIETIES THATBASE THE ENTIRETY OF THEIRECONOMIC AND SOCIALRELATIONSHIPS ON SLAVERY
- THIS INTELLECTUAL MOVEMENTPLACED GREAT VALUE ON SCIENTIFICINVESTIGATION, EMPIRICALOBSERVATION, RATIONALISM, ANDCOSMPOLITANISM
- PROPOSED BY A NEW YORKREPRESENTATIVE OF THE SAME NAME,THIS AMENDMENT CALLED FOR A BANOF FURTHER SLAVE IMPORTS INTOTHE STATE AND THE GRADUALEMANCIPATION OF ALL ENSLAVEDPEOPLE
- MADE POSSIBLE BY AN INVENTIONPATENTED BY ELI WITHIN, THIS"BOOM" ENRICHED SOUTHERNPLANTERS EVEN AS IT INCREASED THEMISERIES FORCED ONTO AFRICANAMERICAN SLAVES VIA MIGRATIONAND HARD LABOR
- THIS THREE-WORD TERM DESCRIBESTHE FORCED MIGRATION OF MILLIONSOF AFRICAN AMERICAN SLAVESDURING THE FIRST HALF OF THENINETEENTH CENTURY
- A WAVE OF RELIGIOUS REVIVALISMTHAT SWEPT THE AMERICANCOLONIES DURING THE FIRST HALFOF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (1700S)
- ONE OF THE NATION'S FIRST TWOPOLITICAL PARTIES, WHICH OPPOSEDSTRONG CENTRAL GOVERNMENT ANDDREW ITS SUPPORTERS FROMSOUTHERN AND WESTERN FARMERS
- THE ENGLISH SCIENTIST ANDPHILOSOPHER WHO ARGUED THATGOVERNMENT POWER ORIGINATESWITH THE PEOPLE (CONSENT OF THEGOVERNED)
- LED BY THE PROPHET HILLIS HADJO,THIS SOUTHEASTERN INDIGENOUSCOMMUNITY SIGNED OVER 14 MILLIONACRES FOLLOWING THEIR DEFEAT ATTHE BATTLE OF HORSESHOE BEND,ALABAMA
- THESE AMERICANS SUPPORTEDRATIFICATION OF THE UNITEDSTATES CONSTITUTION
- A SYSTEM DEVELOPED IN THEEIGHTEENTH CENTURY IN WHICHTASKS WERE DISTRIBUTED TOINDIVIDUALS WHO COMPLETED THEWORK IN THEIR OWN HOMES
- THIS SHAWNEE WARRIOR ANDFOUNDER OF AN INDIANCONFEDERACY SOUGHT TO DEFENDPRESENT-DAY INDIANA AGAINSTAMERICAN ENCROACHMENT
- THIS FORT GUARDED THEENTRANCE TO BALTIMOREHARBOR DURING THE WAR OF1812
- IN 1805, THIS SHAWNEE INDIANRECEIVED A MESSAGE FROM THE"MASTER OF LIFE," PROMISING TODRIVE WHITE SETTLERS FROM THEOHIO AND WABASH RIVER COUNTRY
- THESE AMERICANS OPPOSEDRATIFICATION OF THECONSTITUTION
- THE BRITISH POLICY OF CAPTURINGAMERICAN SAILORS AND FORCINGTHEM TO SERVE IN THE BRITISH NAVY
- A VICTORY FOR GENERAL ANDREWJACKSON THAT SAVED ANIMPORTANT GULF COAST PORT, THISBATTLE TOOK PLACE AFTER THESIGNING OF THE PEACE TREATY THATENDED THE WAR OF 1812.
- AUTHORIZED BY ARTICLE III OF THECONSTITUTION, THIS ACT OFCONGRESS CREATED THE FEDERALCOURT SYSTEM
- THESE LEADERS OF THE "CORPS OFDISCOVERY" EXPLORED THELOUISIANA TERRITORY ON BEHALF OFPRESIDENT THOMAS JEFFERSON