the passage of the Stamp Act. They incited riots and burned the customs houses
where the stamped British paper was kept. The leaders included Samuel Adams and
Paul Revere.
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Sons of Liberty
,A branch of Calvinism, brought to Scotland by John Knox.
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Presbyterians
California was admitted as a free state, the Fugitive Slave Act, it put into effect
popular sovereignty in most other states from the Mexican-American War.
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Compromise of 1850
A plan at the constitutional convention to base representation in the legislature on
population.
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Virginia Plan
(1765) A tax that the British Parliament placed on newspapers and official documents
sold in the American Colonies, repealed in 1766.
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, Stamp Act
Martin Van Buren defeated William Henry Harrison and Hugh Lawson White (Whig
Party).
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1836 Election
All persons born or naturalized in the US were entitled equal rights and that their
rights were protected at both the state and national levels.
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14th Amendment
American transcendentalist who was against a government that supported slavery. He
wrote down his beliefs in Walden. He started the movement of civil-disobedience
when he refused to pay the toll-tax to support him Mexican War.
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Henry David Thoreau
, (1817-1895) American abolitionist and writer, he escaped slavery and became a
leading African American spokesman and writer. He published his biography, The
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, and founded the abolitionist newspaper,
the North Star.
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Frederick Douglas
Economic policy of Alexander Hamilton where the central government would assume
the debts of all the states. It would tie the states closer to the federal government.
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Assumption
A top graduate of West Point, Lee distinguished himself as an exceptional soldier in
the U.S. Army for thirty-two years. He is best known for fighting on behalf of the
Confederate Army in the American Civil War.
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Robert E. Lee
(1754-1763) War fought in the colonies between the English and the French for
possession of the Ohio Valley area. The English were victorious.
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