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- Land the United States purchased for constructing a southern transcontinental railroad
- Which of the following was not among the original executive departments?a. stateb. treasuryc. agricultured. war
- Term for a candidate who is largely unknown by the general public
- Relocation of Indians from their homeland to Oklahoma
- Leading factor in what type of products would be produced by a colony.
- This practice involved seizing American sailors and forcing them into British naval service
- Agreement allowed the admission of a slave state if further slavery was banned north of 36 30'?
- What area did the U.S. government buy as a result of the Adams-Onis Treaty with Spain?
- This became the name of the convention that was called in Philadelphia to solve the weaknesses of the Confederation
- During what brief war, in 1832, did a group of Indians attempt to reclaim their land in northern Illinois?
- According to the Three-Fifths Compromise, __________ of a state's slave population would be counted for the purpose of representation.
- Plan proposed a two-house Congress, with representation based on state population
- Name given to the body of important presidential advisors
- What did the Patriots called Parliament's Coercive Acts, acts intended to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party
- Constitutional principle supports the division of power between the national and state levels of government
- Introduced the compromise plan for a two-house congress that was eventually adopted by the Constitutional Convention
- The name given to the institutions in which Treasury secretary Roger B. Taney placed federal deposits
- Stunning victory Americans won after the war had officially ended
- Which proposed representation plan called for a unicameral legislature
- Action John Adams took the night before Jefferson's inauguration