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Christopher Columbus   show
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Christopher Columbus   show
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show he believed a shorter path to the East Indies could be achievements by sailing west across the Atlantic Ocean  
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show had three ships on his first voyage - the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria  
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Christopher Columbus   show
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Christopher Columbus   show
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show opened the West economically through Colombian Exchange  
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show first attempt by Queen Elizabeth and England to colonize North America  
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Roanoke   show
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Roanoke   show
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Roanoke   show
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show colony disappeared before supply ships arrived  
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show one word was left on a tree- Croatan  
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show known as the Lost Colony  
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show daughter of Chief Powhatan  
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Pocahontas   show
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show she is captured and converted to Christianity in 1613  
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show Christians give her the name Rebecca  
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Pocahontas   show
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Pocahontas   show
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show A son (Thomas) is born in England and she dies there  
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Jamestown   show
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Jamestown   show
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show the colony is named after King James I (Scotland)  
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show run by Virginia Company (private company)  
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show most of the colonists died during the winter of 1609-1610 "Starving Time"  
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Jamestown   show
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Jamestown   show
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show Pilgrims founded in 1620  
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Plymouth   show
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show many of the colonists were attempting to escape religious persecution  
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Plymouth   show
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Plymouth   show
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Plymouth   show
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show Plymouth was absorbed by Massachusetts in 1691  
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Arthur Miller   show
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Arthur Miller   show
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Arthur Miller   show
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show the crucible details the Salem Witch Trials  
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show the play is an allergory for the McCarthy Trials  
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Arthur Miller   show
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Arthur Miller   show
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show British officer during the French and Indian War  
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show commander of Revolutionary Forces-Continental Army  
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show presided over Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia  
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George Washington   show
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show established important groundwork for future presidents - the cabinet and inaugural address  
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George Washington   show
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show only founding Father to emancipate all his slaves at death (no children)  
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show famous for "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death"  
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show was an attorney, plantation owner, and politician from Virginia  
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Patrick Henry   show
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Patrick Henry   show
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Patrick Henry   show
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Patrick Henry   show
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show like many founding fathers, owned slaves  
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Boston Massacre   show
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show crown appointed English troops were surrounded by mob of hecklers throwing objects  
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show five killed and six wounded  
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Boston Massacre   show
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show soldiers were defeated by John Adams  
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Boston Massacre   show
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show Paul Revere engraving immortalizes event  
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Stamp Act   show
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Stamp Act   show
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Stamp Act   show
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Stamp Act   show
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Stamp Act   show
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Stamp Act   show
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Stamp Act   show
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show written anonymously in early 1776  
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show Thomas Paine later known as author  
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Common sense   show
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show written in plain, simple language  
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Common sense   show
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show became the largest circulated document in American history in relation to population  
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Common sense   show
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Paul Revere   show
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show main occupation was that of silversmith  
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show became famous for Boston Massacre engraving  
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Paul Revere   show
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Paul Revere   show
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show one of three riders to warn the residents of Lexington and Concord - William Dawes and Dr. Samuel Prescott  
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Paul Revere   show
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Declaration of Independence   show
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Declaration of Independence   show
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show the document was signed July 4, 1776 and then lost  
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Declaration of Independence   show
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show engrossed (official) copy was signed on August 2, 1776  
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show 56 delegates signed the Declaration  
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Declaration of Independence   show
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show after a long journey, including Library at Congress and Fort Knox, it sends up at the National Archives  
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Thomas Jefferson   show
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show 3rd president of the United States  
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show anti-federalist - known as the father of the Democratic Party  
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show acquired the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 from France and Napoleon  
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Thomas Jefferson   show
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Thomas Jefferson   show
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Thomas Jefferson   show
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Thomas Jefferson   show
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Bill of Rights   show
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Bill of Rights   show
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Bill of Rights   show
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show 12 were accepted by congress  
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show 10 were voted on and passed by the stairs  
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show it provides protection from the government (speech, etc.)  
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Bill of Rights   show
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show also called the Corps. of Discovery, 1804-1806  
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Lewis & Clark Expedition   show
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show they were the first American expedition to cross western U.S.  
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Lewis & Clark Expedition   show
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show departed from St. Louis in May 1804  
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Lewis & Clark Expedition   show
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Lewis & Clark Expedition   show
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Sacagawea   show
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Sacagawea   show
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show purchased, or perhaps won in card game, by French trader Toussaint Charbonneau - also acquired Otter Woman at the same time  
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show married at the age of 13  
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show became an important interpreter and guide for Meriwether Lewis and William Clark at age 16  
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Sacagawea   show
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show is on the 2000 gold dollar coin  
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show member of the Shawnee tribe  
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show his name translates to "shooting star"  
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Tecumseh   show
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Tecumseh   show
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show founded Prophetstown near present-day Lafayette  
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show confederacy was severely damaged at Battle of Tippecanoe  
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show died at the Battle of Thames during the War of 1812 - Harrison was opposing general  
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show a slave uprising in Haiti led Napoleon to sell Louisiana to the United States in 1803  
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Louisiana Purchase   show
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Louisiana Purchase   show
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show it instantly doubled the size of the United States  
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Louisiana Purchase   show
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Louisiana Purchase   show
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Louisiana Purchase   show
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show first governor of the Indiana Territory  
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William Henry Harrison   show
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show last British subject to be president  
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show oldest elected president (68) until Ronald Reagan in 1981 (69)  
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show held the shortest term in office - 32 days  
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William Henry Harrison   show
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William Henry Harrison   show
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show written by Francis Scott Key during the bombardment of Fort McHenry in Chesapeake Bay of British (near Baltimore)  
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show writer was a lawyer and an amateur poet  
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Star Spangled Banner   show
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Star Spangled Banner   show
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show four stanzas are in song, we sing only one  
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Star Spangled Banner   show
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Star Spangled Banner   show
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Andrew Jackson   show
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Andrew Jackson   show
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Andrew Jackson   show
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Andrew Jackson   show
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Andrew Jackson   show
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show Whites nicknamed him"Old Hickory"  
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Andrew Jackson   show
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Andrew Jackson   show
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show approved in 1820 by congress, it was a plan for western territories of Louisiana Purchase and balancing of free and slave states  
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Missouri Compromise   show
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Missouri Compromise   show
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Missouri Compromise   show
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Missouri Compromise   show
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show the Supreme Court also ruled Compromise unconstitutional in the Dred Scott Case (1857)  
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Missouri Compromise   show
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show known as Clinton's Ditch or Folly, was named after New York governor Dewitt Clinton  
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Erie Canal   show
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show became one of the longest canals in the Western Hemisphere at 363 miles  
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Erie Canal   show
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show also connected Albany with Buffalo  
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Erie Canal   show
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show made New York City the nations #1 port  
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Wabash and Erie Canal   show
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show proposed by George Washington as a mean to connect east and west  
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Wabash and Erie Canal   show
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show ground broken in Fort Wayne on 2/22/1832 by Jordan Vigus  
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show canal entered Logansport in 1838  
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Wabash and Erie Canal   show
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show last boat through Logansport The Clyde entered in 1875  
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National Road   show
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National Road   show
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National Road   show
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National Road   show
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show 600 miles in total length  
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show cost $7 million  
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show today's U.S. 40 runs along same route  
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show born Isabella Baumfree into slavery in New York  
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Sojourner Truth   show
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Sojourner Truth   show
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show new master acquired her $100 and some sheep  
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show John Pumont broke promise to free her and she escapes with daughter in 1826 (7/4/1827)  
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show known for 1851 Ain't I a Woman speech  
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Sojourner Truth   show
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show activist, abolitionist, and suffragist from NY  
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show initiated first major effort in women's reform interested in divorce rights, birth control, and temperance  
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show held the first equal rights convention for women at Seneca Falls in 1848  
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show became famous for her Declaration of Sentiments - similar to Declaration of Independence  
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton   show
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton   show
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show beliefs caused rival American Woman Suffrage Association to form  
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show was an activist, abolitionist, suffragist, and Quaker  
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show printed a weekly journal from 18668-1872 called the Revolution  
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show voted in the 1872 presidential race  
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show after arrest not allowed to testify at own trial and found guilty  
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show she refused to pay the $100 fine  
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Susan B. Anthony   show
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Susan B. Anthony   show
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show Spanish Mission located in present-day San Antonio  
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show Texans forced out Mexican rulers  
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The Alamo   show
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The Alamo   show
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The Alamo   show
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show Texans fightback with rallying cry... "Remember The Alamo"  
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show today it is the biggest tourist attraction in Texas  
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show began in Independence, Missouri and ended in Oregon City, Oregon  
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Oregon Trail   show
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show laid down by fur trappers prior to 1840 and was only accessibly by foot or horse  
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Oregon Trail   show
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show deaths on the trail were mainly from cholera and dysentery  
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show trail declined after opening of transcontinental railroad- 1869  
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show today's I-80 roughly follows same route  
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show connected Council Bluffs, Iowa with San Francisco, CA  
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show total length of track was 1,900 miles  
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Transcontinental Railroad   show
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show Northern Republicans picked central route during Civil War while Democrats were gone  
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show construction took six years, ending at Promontory Point, Utah with golden spike in 1869  
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show first known as the Pacific Railroad  
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show dramatically increased settlement and economic development of the Wesst  
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James K. Polk   show
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show prior to the White House, he was speaker of the House and governor of Tennessee  
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show won election with promise to annex Texas  
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show responsible for opening the Naval Academy and the Amithsonian while in office  
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James K. Polk   show
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James K. Polk   show
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James K. Polk   show
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Kansas - Nebraska Act   show
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show opened new territories of Kansas and Nebraska to the possibility of slavery  
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show residents of the territories decided by popular sovereignty - democracy  
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Kansas - Nebraska Act   show
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show Douglas' hope that thousands of farms in territories would make transcontinental railroad feasible - Chicago  
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show the North cried of slave power and slaveocracy  
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Kansas - Nebraska Act   show
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show daughter of religious leader Lyman Beecher  
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show she was an abolitionist and author  
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show wrote weekly serial in Newspaper National Era  
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Harriet Beecher Stowe   show
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show she received $400 for the original publication of the book  
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Harriet Beecher Stowe   show
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Harriet Beecher Stowe   show
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show 13th president of the United States, 1850-1853  
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show assumed the presidency after war hero Zachary Taylor's death  
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show last president from the Whig Party  
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show after term in office become part of the American Party known for being anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic-Nativism  
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show ran for president on American ticket in 1856 finishing third  
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show founded the University of Buffalo  
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show consistently ranked in the bottom ten of U.S. presidents  
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