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George Washingtons death
________ in 1799 was probably less a result of the minor throat infection that had afflicted him than of his physicians efforts to cure him by bleeding and purging.
Hamilton
________ had, as he had intended, increased the public debt and created an extensive system of internal taxation, including the hated whiskey excise tax.
Samuel Slater
________, for example, used the knowledge he had acquired before leaving England to build a spinning mill for the Quaker merchant Moses Brown in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, in 1790.
Mason Weems
________, an Anglican clergyman, published a eulogistic Life of Washington in 1806, which became one of the best- selling books of the era.
New England
On December 15, 1814, delegates from the ________ states met in Hartford, Connecticut, to discuss their grievances.
American Revolution
The ________ weakened traditional forms of religious practice by detaching churches from government and by elevating ideas of individual liberty and reason.
Jefferson
In 1803, even before Napoleons offer to sell Louisiana, ________ helped plan an expedition that was to cross the continent to the Pacific Ocean, gather geographic facts, and investigate prospects for trade with the Indians.
cotton gin
The ________ not only changed the economy of the South, it also helped transform the North.
American ships
The Embargo prohibited ________ from leaving the United States for any foreign port anywhere in the world.
1790s
The origins of the Second Great Awakening lay in the efforts of conservative theologians of the ________ to fight the spread of religious rationalism, and to encourage church establishments to revitalize their organizations.
chief justice
The ________ of the United States at the time of the ruling was John Marshall, one of the towering figures in the history of American law.
early nineteenth century
The ________ saw a dramatic expansion of American shipping in the Atlantic.
Mercy Otis Warren
________, who had been an influential playwright and agitator during the 1770s, continued her literary efforts with a three- volume History of the Revolution, published in 1805 and emphasizing the heroism of the American struggle.
Burr conspiracy
The ________ "was in part the story of a single mans soaring ambitions and flamboyant personality.
1812
In the summer of ________, American forces invaded Canada through Detroit.
1807
The ________ war crisis following the Chesapeake- Leopard incident revived the conflict between Indians and white American.
University of Pennsylvania
The ________ created the first American medical school in the eighteenth century.
1801
In ________, Jefferson appointed Harrison governor of the Indiana Territory to administer the presidents proposed solution to the "Indian problem.
1805
In ________, at the Battle of Trafalgar, a British fleet virtually destroyed what was left of the French navy.
Robert Fulton
The inventor ________ and the promoter Robert R. Livingston were principally responsible for perfecting the steamboat and bringing it to the attention of the nation.
election of 1808
The ________ came in the midst of the Embargo- (1807) induced depression.
British navy
The ________- with its floggings, low pay, and terrible shipboard conditions- was known as a "floating hell "to its sailors.
Massachusetts law
A(n) ________ of 1789 reaffirmed the colonial laws by which each town was obligated to support a school, but there was little enforcement.
Native Americans
In the first decade of the nineteenth century, the number of western Americans who had settled east of the Appalachians had grown to more than 500, 000- a population far larger than that of the ________.
Jefferson
________ instructed Robert Livingston, the American ambassador in Paris, to negotiate the purchase of New Orleans.
Jefferson
________ was, above all, a shrewd and practical politician.
Jefferson
________ expelled all British warships from American waters to lessen the likelihood of future incidents.
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