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31 Cards in this Set
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This war was ended by the Treaty of Ghent
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What is the War of 1812
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This future president represented the Amistad Africans succesfully arguing that the men should be returned home and not to Spain.
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Who is John Quincy Adams
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Old Hickory
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Who is Andrew Jackson
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Signature battle was Battle of New Orleans
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Andrew Jackson
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Tippacanoe
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William Henry Harrison
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30 days as president due to pneumonia caught at Inauguration Day
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William Henry Harrison
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President with the most children - 15
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Who is John Tyler?
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President who signed the bill annexing Texas
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Who is John Tyler
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The Whiskey Rebellion in this state was suppressed by an Army led by George Washington
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what is Pennsylvania?
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This rebellion over taxes on farmers took place in Massachusetts
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Shays' Rebellion (Daniel Shays)
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President who fought for the Oregon Territory with the slogan 54/40 or Fight.
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Who is James Polk?
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Treaty that ended the U.S. Mexican War
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What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
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President who refused to be sworn in on a Sunday leaving the US without a president for a day
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Who is Zachary Taylor
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Rumors that his death was caused by arsenic poisining, but seemed to be severe good poisoning instead
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Zachary Taylor
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President who opened trade with Japan (between 1850 and 1830)
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Millard Fillmore
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Person who assumed the presidency following his predesessors acute indigestion.
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Millard Filmore
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Secretary of State to Two Presidents
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Daniel Webster
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Daniel Webster was Secretary of State to these two presidents.
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William Henry Harrison and Millard Filmore
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President who is a distant relative of Barbara Bush
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Franklin Pierce
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Name of purchase of southern Arizona for $10 million
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Gadsen Purchase
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President who presided over the Gadsen Purchase
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Franklin Pierce
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President who left office in disgrace over the sneaky repeal of the Missouri Compromise who said "There's nothing to do but get drunk"
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Franklin Pierce
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The only bachelor president
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James Buchanan
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Chief Justice who delivered the Dred Scott decision
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Taney
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President who tried to secretly fortify for the civil war but had a vessel (Star of the West) shot at from the coast of North Carolina
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Buchanan
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Last president before Abraham Lincoln
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Buchanan
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Lincoln's First Party
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Whig
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Capital of the confederacy
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Richmond, Virginia
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Play on the night of Abraham Lincoln's death
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Our American Cousin
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First woman ever executed by the U.S.
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Mary Surratt
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Name of Lincoln's First Vice-President
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Hamlin
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