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moowah told them to
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton , she went to the Seneca Falls Convention and created the Women's Bill of Rights
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Jefferson Davis served as the Senator for the state of Mississippi before he became the president of the Confederate States of...
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The connection is that women became highly supportive of abolition. These abolitionist spent much of their time fund raising or...
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After FDR's New Deal was enforced during the Great Depression, several agencies and unions were formed such as the Civilian...
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Not much in the way of similarities - except that when they said they would fight to the end, they both meant it.It was the...
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I like your reference of "old jack's foot cavalry". Just keep in mind that he did command infantry. His 1st Virginia Brigade...
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Sacramento is not a state. It is the capital of CA. CA became a state Sept. 9th, 1850
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The USS Maine sank before the US declared war on Spain.
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The riders for the pony express had to know how to ride REALLY Good. They would ride at day at night and have to watch out for...
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John Tyler succeeded William Henry Harrison in office after Harrison got pneumonia and pleurisy during his inaugural address and...
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establish an independent state in Africa for freed American slaves.
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She declined to support the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. She opposed giving added legal...
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No, he was one of the few West Pointers who didn't. He was on a home posting.That could have counted against him in terms of...
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Pennsylvania became the second US State on 12 December 1787.
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he worked as a blacksmith and he had five kids two of witch were twins then he died of a heart attack.
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Actually, we are and have been for years. However, they are significantly different from their pre-9/11 counterparts.
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Only two that I know of:Missouri to be admitted as a slave-state.And after that, no more slave-states North of the parallel that...
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One was because they had good soil for planting. forget the other two! seriously, look it up in a history book:)
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Madalyn Murray O'Hare is the woman responsible for prayer not being allowed in schools.
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yes
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James Knox Polk, Santa Anna, Generals Scott, Taylor and Kearny.
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They split at the mouth of the Medicine River
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The Annexation of Texas and the border clash named the Thornton Affair.
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Texas v. Johnson, 491 US 397 (1989) was in litigation for five years, gradually moving from municipal court to the US Supreme...
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Lowered voting age; all volunteer military
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He was there as a staff officer and did not lead troops in combat, but he was a keen observer.
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Americans to vacate their houses or take in British troops on the demand of any commander I think it is technically: colonial...
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September 11, 2001
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There were several ways to search for gold. The most popular and the cheapest was panning for gold. They also built "machines" to...
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In 1587, Sir Walter Raleigh outfitted a ship with 91 men, 17 women, and 9 children and sent them on their way to the shores of...
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There were lots of different people involved in the trail of tears, however the people actually traveling away from their land...
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The constitution can be amended two ways outside of Congress. One is to hold a constitutional convention that would need to...
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No sir.
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Saddam Hussein of Iraq, President George H.W. Bush of the United States and General "Storming" Norman Schwarzkopf of the United...
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Lewis and Clark found many new types of trees including- osage orange tree- bigleaf maple tree- narrowleaf cottonwood- lodgepole...
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Cuba was granted almost instant independence with US attached provisos and eventually the Philippines, although the latter didn't...
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Eli Whitney
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Federal indifference and the lack of a viable population.
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during the civil war he saw the flag flying so he knew that the Americans won so he wrote a poem later it became a song then it...
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Most tribes got along with the Mormon pioneers pretty well, but not all. For a time, there were even missionaries sent out just...
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Oregon was admitted to the Union on 14 Feb. 1859. It was the 33rd state.
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because they wanted to
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A quote from John Smith while catching Sturgeon Fish lying so thicke with their heads above the water, as for want of our nets...
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He insisted upon the importance of unity and the dangers of sectionalism. He stated the importance of the Constitution, warned of...
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Corn,Rice,Sweet Potatoes,Wheat,and Sugarcane.
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Some were promised freedom if they joined and fought and they thought it would get them acceptance with the rest of the white...
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Some disliked hiim for his suppport of Native American Indian rights.Some disliked him because he supported the institution of...
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Houston refused to take the oath to the Confederacy, he did not support the abolitionist cause, owned slaves and supported the...
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Outgoing President John Adams had issued William Marbury a commission as justice of the peace, but the new President, Thomas...
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Mainly for religious freedom and liberation from English government.
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I don't know that there is any one thing that Marshall consistently stressed. If pressed to name something, I'd say that it was...
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He was a lawyer and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Marshall believed a country should be governed by the rule of law, not...
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Amendments 11-27 are not part of the bill of rights, but are rights of the US citizen.
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False
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For the majority of its existence, the capital of the CSA was Richmond, Virginia. The state capitals of the Confederacy were the...
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Southeast from Atlanta to Savannah in a swathe fifty miles wide. Then across the river into South Carolina.It was a complete...
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The Legislative Branch is created via article I of the constitution. However, the legislative branch also plays a major role in...
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It was started by the people who were accused
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That was the old question that had divided Americans ever since the Louisiana Purchase of 1803.The Missouri Compromise, based on...
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There have been large numbers of Hispanic American communities in the southwestern US since at least 1750.
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promise of a bill of rights and compromise with anti-federalists
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Seward's Folly.
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The cotton gin.
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James Madison, John Jay, and Alexander Hamilton
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The most comprehensive civil rights legislation was passed by Congress and signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. The...
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To cross the rivers.
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The Wilmot Proviso.
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Superiority in sea power, superior numbers of troops, superior weaponry and perhaps even a better trained military, although many...
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Because the Constitution led to endless disagreements about States' Rights (the freedom of one state to over-rule federal laws),...
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Because I wasn't born in 1845
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The Green Mountain Boys were a militia formed to protect Vermont from any and all threats, especially from New York. Vermont was...
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President Polk offered to buy New Mexico and California from Mexico.
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Be a natural-born American citizen. If you were not born a U.S. citizen, then nothing else matters.
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Amendments to any constitution are a sort of fine tuning and improvement. They can also be introduced to take into account new...
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James Bowie.
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Kent State Shootings
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disease and sickness and other things they DIDNT want
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So they can remember them by the streets and roads............................
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They ate dried meat, berries, and fish
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The Americans were the victors in the battle at Princeton.
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Burning their draft cards was one way.
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