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Horace Mann's Campaign for Free Compulsory Public Education
Horace Mann and the education reformers' primary purpose was to bring his 1833 book Report on the Condition of Public Instruction in Germany, attendance was compulsory, parents were punished for withholding their. -
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George Washington
George was the very first president in America. -
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania was the second state in the U.S. -
Delaware
Delaware was the first state in the U.S.A. -
New Jersey
New Jersey was the third state in the U.S. -
Georgia
Georgia was the fourth state in the U.S. -
Massachusetts
Massachusetts was the sixth state in the U.S. -
Connecticut
Connecticut was the fifth state in the U.S. -
Maryland
Maryland was the seventh state in the U.S. -
South Carolina
South Carolina was the 8th state in the U.S. -
New Hampshire
New Hampshire was the ninth state in the U.S. -
Virginia
Virginia was the tenth state in the U.S. -
New York
New York was the eleventh state in the U.S. -
North Carolina
North Carolina was the 12th state in the U.S. -
Rhode Island
Rhode Island was the 13th state in the U.S. -
Vermont
Vermont was the 14th state in the U.S. -
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Whiskey Rebellion
The Whiskey Rebellion was the first real test on the U.S government to enforce federal laws. They passed the law in 1791. People refused the tax, because it was like the stamp act.
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Kentucky
Kentucky was the 15th state in the U.S. -
Tennessee
Tennessee was the 16th state in the U.S. -
George Washington's Farewell Address
George Washington's Farewell Address is a letter written by the first American President, George Washington, to "The People of the United States of America". -
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John Adams
Adams was the second presidnent of the U.S. -
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Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. She gave a speech "Ain't I a Woman?" in May 12, 1863. -
Alien and Sedition Acts
The Alien and Sedition Acts were four bills that were passed by the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress and signed into law by President John Adams in 1798, the result of the French Revolution and during an undeclared naval war with France, later known as the Quasi-War. -
John Brown and the Armed Resistance
Unlike most other Northerners, who advocated peaceful resistance to the pro- slavery .... John Brown in 1846 in Springfield, Massachusetts, holding the flag of ..... my charge, was stopped this morning at Harper's Ferry by armed abolitionists. -
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Thomas Jefferson
The 3rd president of the U.S was Jefferaon. -
Marbury v. Madison
Section 13 of the Judiciary Act of 1789 is unconstitutional to the extent it purports to enlarge the original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court beyond that permitted by the Constitution. Congress cannot pass laws that are contrary to the Constitution, and it is the role of the Judicial system to interpret what the Constitution permits. It was between William Marbury and James Madison. This resulted in a couple of laws. U.S Const. arts. I, III; Judiciary Act of 1789 § 13 -
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Chief Justice John Marshall
Chief Justice John Marshall was in multiple cases. For example the Marbury v. Madison, Fletcher v. Peck, McCulloch v. Maryland, Cohens v. Virgina, Gibbons v. Ogden, and Darthmouth College v. Woodward. Because he was a federalist. That influenced him to be Chief Justice. -
Ohio
Ohio was the 17th state in the U.S. -
Lewis & Clark
Lewis and Clark explored America while documenting everthing. -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase (French: Vente de la Louisiane "Sale of Louisiana") was the acquisition of the Louisiana territory (828,000 square miles) by the United States from France in 1803. -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase (French: Vente de la Louisiane "Sale of Louisiana") was the acquisition of the Louisiana territory (828,000 square miles) by the United States from France in 1803. -
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William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer. -
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James Madison
Madison was the 4th president of America. -
Louisiana
Louisiana was the 18th state in the U.S. -
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The War of 1812
The War of 1812 was fought in June 18, 1812 to February 18, 1815. The was was between the U.S, Ireland and United Kingdom. This resulted in a military stalemate, and the Defeat of Tecumseh's Confederacy (a group of native americans). -
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement. -
Indiana
Indiana was the 19th state in the U.S. -
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James Monroe
Monroe was elected as the 5th president. -
Mississippi
Mississippi 20th state in the U.S. -
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Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writing. -
Illinois
Illinois was the 21st state in the U.S. -
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McCulloch v. Maryland
Although the Constitution does not specifically give Congress the power to establish a bank, it does delegate the ability to tax and spend, and a bank is a proper and suitable instrument to assist the operations of the government in the collection and disbursement of the revenue. Because federal laws have supremacy over state laws, Maryland had no power to interfere with the bank's operation by taxing it. Maryland Court of Appeals reversed. -
McCulloch v. Maryland
The McCulloch v. Maryland case was between James McCulloch and The State of Maryland, John James. Maryland wasn't taxing banks. But James wanted them to, so they went to court and James won. This resulted in Maryland taxing there banks. -
Alabama
Alabama was the 22nd state in the U.S. -
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Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony was born February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts. She was brought up in a Quaker family with long activist traditions. Early in her life she developed a sense of justice and moral zeal. After teaching for fifteen years, she became active in temperance. Because she was a woman, she was not allowed to speak at temperance rallies. This experience, and her acquaintance with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, led her to join the women's rights movement in 1852. -
Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman: Conductor of the Underground Railroad - Meet Amazing Americans. America's Library - Library of Congress. After Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery, she returned to slave-holding states many times to help other slaves escape. She led them safely to the northern free states and to Canada. -
Maine
Maine was the 23rd state in the U.S. -
Transcontinental Treaty
The Adams–Onís Treaty of 1819, also known as the Transcontinental Treaty or the Purchase of Florida, or the Florida Treaty, was a treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that gave Florida to the U.S. and set out a boundary between the U.S. and New Spain (now Mexico). -
Missouri
Missouri was the 24th state in the U.S. -
Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine is the best known U.S. policy toward the Western Hemisphere. Buried in a routine annual message delivered to Congress by President James Monroe in December 1823, the doctrine warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs. -
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John Quincy Adams
Quincy was the 6th president elected. -
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Andrew Jackson
The 7th president was Jackson. -
Abolitionism Movement
Abolitionism is a movement to end slavery, whether formal or informal. In Western Europe and the Americas, abolitionism was a historical movement to end the African and Indian slave trade and set slaves free. King Charles I of Spain, following the example of the Swedish monarch, passed a law which would have abolished colonial slavery in 1542, although this law was not passed in the largest colonial states, and so was not enforced. -
Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion
Nat Turner's Rebellion (also known as the Southampton Insurrection) was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia. -
Arkansas
Arkansas was the 25th stat in the U.S. -
Michigan
Michigan 26th state in the U.S. -
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Martin Van Buren
Martin was the 8th president of America. -
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William Henry Harrison
Harrison was the 9th president elected. -
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John Tyler
John Tyler was elected as the 10th president. -
Florida
Florida was the 27th state in the U.S. -
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James K. Polk
James was elected as the 11th president. -
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny is a term for the attitude prevalent during the 19th century period of American expansion that the United States not only could, but was destined to, stretch from coast to coast. This attitude helped fuel western settlement, Native American removal and war with Mexico. (unsure of the month and date) -
Texas
Texas was the 28th state in the U.S. -
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Mexican-American War
The Mexican-American War, was an armed conflict between the United States and the Centralist Republic of Mexico (which became the Second Federal Republic of Mexico during the war) from 1846 to 1848. It followed in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas, which Mexico considered part of its territory, despite the 1836 Texas Revolution. -
Iowa
Iowa was 29th state in the U.S. -
Wisconsin
Wisconsin was the 30th state in the U.S. -
Seneca Falls Resolution
The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman". -
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Zachary Taylor
Taylor was the 12th president of America. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. At the time, the United States contained twenty-two states, evenly divided between slave and free. -
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Millard Fillmore
Millard was the 13th president elected. -
California
California was the 31st state in the U.S. -
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Franklin Pierce
Pierce was the 14th person elected for president. -
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James Buchanan
Buchanan was the 15th president. -
Dred Scott vs Sandford
The Dred Scott vs Sandford case was between Dred Scott and Sandford. Scott was Sandfords slave and wanted to be free so he went to court and lost. -
Minnesota
Minneaota was the 32nd state in the U.S. -
Oregon
Oregon was the 33rd state in the U.S. -
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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham was the 16th president. He helped end the Civil War, and on April 15th 1865 Abraham was killed. -
Dartmouth College v. Woodward
In 1816, the New Hampshire legislature attempted to change Dartmouth College-- a privately funded institution--into a state university. The legislature changed the school's corporate charter by transferring the control of trustee appointments to the governor. In an attempt to regain authority over the resources of Dartmouth College, the old trustees filed suit against William H. Woodward, who sided with the new appointees. Dartmouth regaind control. -
Abolitionism Movement
Abolitionism is a movement to end slavery, whether formal or informal. In Western Europe and the Americas, abolitionism was a historical movement to end the African and Indian slave trade and set slaves free. King Charles I of Spain, following the example of the Swedish monarch, passed a law which would have abolished colonial slavery in 1542, although this law was not passed in the largest colonial states, and so was not enforced. (usure of the date).
