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What invention by Eli Whitney allowed cotton to be processed faster?
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Cotton Gin
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Author of the Declaration of Independence, 3rd U.S. President
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Thomas Jefferson
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The U.S. purchased this territory from France at the price of 15 cents an acre, doubling the size of the U.S.
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Louisiana
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Supreme Court decision that established the principle of judicial review
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Marbury v. Madison
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These two men were commissioned to explore the Louisiana Territory
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Meriwether Lewis
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William Clark
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Author of the Bill of Rights, 4th U.S. President
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James Madison
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What war is sometimes called the "Second War for American Independence?"
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War of 1812
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Americans established a colony for freed slaves on the west coast of Africa that later became the nation of _______.
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Liberia
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What is the capital, named for a U.S. president, of that country?
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Monrovia
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What country was a major source of immigrants to the U.S. in the 1840s, partly due to its potato famine?
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Ireland
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What was the name for the forced migration of thousands of Native Americans westward to Oklahoma?
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Trail of Tears
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The siege of this location became a rallying cry in the Texas Revolution: "Remember the _____!"
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Alamo
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Called the "Moses of her People," she freed hundreds of slaves on the Underground Railroad
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Harriet Tubman
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Women's suffragists and leading coordinators of the Seneca Falls Convention
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Susan B. Anthony
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Founder of Mormonism
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Joseph Smith
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He led the Mormons westward to settle in Salt Lake City, Utah
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Brigham Young
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Author of "Moby Dick"
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Herman Mellville
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Author of "The Scarlet Letter"
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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He led the largest slave revolt on U.S. soil
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Nat Turner
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Self-taught to read and right, he was a former slave who became a leading voice in the abolition movement
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Frederick Douglass
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General in the War of 1812, 7th President of the U.S.
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Andrew Jackson
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Waterway that connected Lake Erie to the Hudson River
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Erie Canal
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50th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and the date that both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
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July 4, 1826
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