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- In 1804, Lewis and Clark led this group of 50 men on an exploration of the Louisiana Territory.
- He published "Common Sense" as an attack on the tyranny of the crown and a call for independence.
- In 1794, the United States and England signed 'this treaty' in which Britian turned over forts in the Northwest Territory and the United States paid outstanding debts to the English.
- The idea to form a new federal government to replace the Articles of Confederation was implemented by what assembly?
- The case of Marbury vs. Madison in 1803, established what precedence with Chief Justice Marshall's ruling?
- This revolt over a federal excise tax saw Washington lead troops into Pennsylvania to enforce federal law.
- This taxation levied by Parliament on the American colonies placed a tax on almost all printed items and documents in the American colonies.
- At Trenton, Washington began the early advance of his forces against the Hessians when?
- Cornwallis surrender his forces here in 1781, effectively ending the American Revolution.
- When England and France entered into war again, President Washington issued this 'declaration' that the United States would remain 'impartial' and not take sides
- Alexander Hamilton argued that the Federal government held what powers beyond its delegated authority?
- This controversy occurred after French delegates demanded bribes and payments before they would negotiate with U.S. ambassadors in 1797.
- As a leader of Colonial troops in the south, he used guerrilla warfare tactics to help defeat the English.
- In 1807, this Act of Congress banned all export of cargo from American Ports, and stopped most imports as well.
- This 1786 revolt in Massachusetts resulting in part from farm foreclosures and saw an inability of the federal government to act, leading many to see the need for a stronger central government.
- This 1770 British assault on colonists in Massachusetts saw some five colonists shoot dead in the city street, including the slave/freedman Crispus Attucks, who is believed to have been the first to be killed.
- Among other sources the United States Constitution implemented the ideas from what two proposed plans?
- The Exchequer, Charles Townshend pushed through Parliament a series of import duties for the American colonies in 1767 under what assumption?
- He was branded as the "most dangerous man in the colonies" for his revolutionary agitation and leaflet printing.
- Referred to as a terrorist organization in England, this society formed as a resistance to the Stamp Act and then led the way toward growing revolt.