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15 Cards in this Set
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In the impeachment process against the president, the------- determines the guilt or innocence of the president.
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Senate
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What territory gained independence in 1836?
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Texas
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The whiskey Rebellion of 1794 protested
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a 25 percent tax on whiskey
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The Federal Constitution
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Counted 3/5 of slaves for purposes of representation
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Historians believe the Brithis trade regulations during the colonial period
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Provided both advantages and disadvantages for the American colonies.
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The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 established what precedent new territories.
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Equality of new states with old
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The American Revolutionaries gained help from?
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France
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Those who opposed ratification of the Constitution were called
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Antifederalist
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Patroons were
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Owners of large tracts of land in New Netherlands
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The largest city in the Southern colonies was
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Charleston
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The American colonist were able to control the power of the Royal governors through what means?
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The assemblies controlled grants of money to be spent by the colonial governments.
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"Popular sovereignty" mean that
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The states would decide themselves whether to be slave or free
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While Chief Justice John Marshall presided over the Supreme Coourt, its decisions
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Laid the grooundwork foor a "broad" interpretation oof the constitution.
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George Washington responded to the Whiskey Rebellion in the Western counties of Pennsylvania by
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Sending an army larger than any he had ever commanded in the Revolution to put down the revolt.
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The Webster--Ashburtonnn Treaty of 1842
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Was concerned in part with joint Anglo-American efforts to supress the African slave trade.
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