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- Higher ____ for leaders was most typical during the colonial period.
- Henry Clay's _____ called for a tariff for the protection of industry, internal improvements at national government expense, sale of federal lands to finance higher education.
- _____ believed in a God who had created a perfect universe and then allowed it to operate without his intervention according to natural laws.
- The ordinance of 1785 and 1787 were accomplishments because they initiated a territorial policy that provided for the orderly creation of new _____
- The honored doctrine that colonies existed for the mother country and were subordinate and inferior to her was repudiated by the Constitution of the _____
- The first example of representative government in America was the Virginia ______ __ _______.
- A reason Thomas Jefferson was interested in purchasing _____ from France was that he hoped to preserve an agricultural society by making abundant lands available.
- By the time of the Revolution, the American colonists had generally come to believe that creation of a ______ type of government would solve the problems of a monarchy
- The term "Cult of Domesticity" or "Separate Spheres" refers to the idealization of _____ in their roles as wives and mothers.
- The period overlapping the First Great _____ which caused a new liberal look at the sciences was known as the Enlightenment.
- Marbury v Madison is famous for establishing the principles of ______ ______.
- The ____ Act of 1807 provided that all imports as well as exports were forbidden.
- _____ was the first permanent European settlement on future United States.
- Tensions between British soldiers and Bostonians erupted when Bostonians hurled objects at British soldiers, who then fired and killed five citizens initiating the ______ _______
- Violence towards outsiders or representatives of distant authority characterizes the violence in Bacon's Rebellion, the _____ ____ _____, Shay's Rebellion and the Whiskey Rebellion.
- British and colonial forces first fought in April 1775 at ____ and Concord
- Not many experienced officers for war, city workers and factory workers took a long time to train for the army, had to fight an offensive war
- Had many experienced officers, southern soldiers didn't need as much training, fought a defensive war
- Commander of the Confederate army Of North Virginia
- Led troops to victory in Tennessee and Mississippi, and , in 1864, became Commanding officer of union army