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Alexander Hamilton
Great political leader; youngest and brightest of Federalists; "father of the National Debt"; from New York; became a major general; military genius; Secretary of Treasury; lived from 1755-1804; became...
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From what segment of society did Andrew Jackson much of his political support?
Farmers and laborers
Which statement regarding the American electorate during the 1820s is TRUE?
The right to vote was expanded to...
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Continental army officers attempting to form the Society of the Cincinnati
were ridiculed for their lordly pretensions.
The American Revolution was
an example of accelerated evolution rather than outright...
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Market Revolution
The Market Revolution was the expansion of markets during the early 19th century. This was mark(et)ed (hehe see what I did there?) by an increase in exchange of goods and services. The Market Revolution resulted from...
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Second Bank of the United States
Was needed because of more wartime experience, and the charter on the other one expiring. So Congress chartered this in 1816, it was much like the other but with more capital. This could not forbid state ...
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Republicanism
Derived from Greek and Romans republics. Meant a just society was one in which all citizens subordinated their private, selfihs interest to the common good. Stability of the society was then dependant on the virtue of its...
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Samuel de Champlain
Father of New France who established a crucial alliance with the Huron Indians
Robert de La Salle
French empire builder who explored the Mississippi Basin and named it after his monarch;...
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Which of the following statements been characterized the British government attempts to meet its was debt following the great war for empire
Parliament increased import taxes on items used by the poor and middling classes such as sugar and...
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116. Most seventeenth-century English migrants to the North American colonies were
Laborers.
117. In the seventeenth century, the great majority of English immigrants who came to the Chesapeake region
were
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