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- (Shay's Rebellion)When a Number of farmers from massachusetts rioted for tax relief and more paper money
- A Religious revival that promoted predestination
- Farmers couldn't pay for machinery and took out loans but soon fell into debt due to price rises.
- (Whiskey Rebellion) A rebellion that george washington himself put down. Washington acted to defend Hamilton's financial plan
- what european countries invoked others rulers to help the french king
- A year when the Supreme Court ruled that the federal Government trumped the state governments (Marbury v Madison)
- what important precedent did Washington set at the end of his second term?
- United States, with the UN, pushes Iraq out of Kuwait
- Large Influx of Immigrants from Asia and Latin America
- Large Great Migration of African Americans from the South to the North for Work
- When north westerners questioned why all of Texas was annexed but not all of Oregon, what was the response?
- How did the Spanish franciscan missionaries treat the native inhabitants of California?
- What was the nomination of James K. Polk as the Democrats' 1844 presidential candidate secured by?
- Who were the people that opposed President Polk's expansionist program?
- Who were the first Old world Europeans to come to California?
- What did the area in dispute between the United States and Great Britain in 1845 lay between?
- Arrange these in chronological order: Bear Flag Revolt, Slidell mission rejected, declaration of war on Mexico, and Americans troops ordered to the Rio Grande Valley
- What was the largest single addition to American territory?
- Who was the only member of President Tyler's Whig cabinet that did not resign in protest over his policies?
- Arrange these in chronological order: Annexation of Texas, Webster Ashburton Treaty, Settlement of the Oregon boundary, and Aroostook War