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| John Kasich | ___is the governor of Ohio. |
| George Washington | ___ was the commander of the Continental Army. |
| mercenary | A ___ is a professional soldier hired to fight for a foreign country. |
| Battle of Saratoga | The ___ is considered the turning point of the Revolutionary War. |
| Guerrillas | ___ were small bands of fighters who made hit-and-run attacks. |
| John Paul Jones | ___ was the American naval officer who won the sea battle against the British warship Serapis. |
| Ben Franklin | ___ obtained French help for the Patriot's cause. |
| Republicanism | ___ is the belief that government should be based on the consent of the people. |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | ___ was a leader of the civil rights movement. |
| Articles of Confederation | The ___ were too weak to govern the nation after the Revolutionary War. |
| U.S. Constitution | The weakness of the Articles of Confederation led to the writing of the ___. |
| Wilderness Road | The trail into Kentucky that Daniel Boone helped to build was called the ___. |
| Land Ordinance of 1785 | The ___ established a plan for surveying and selling the land west of the Appalachian mountains. |
| State of the Union | The ___ is an annual address presented by the President to Congress. |
| Northwest Ordinance | The ___ described how the Northwest Territory was to be governed. |
| Shays's Rebellion | ___ was an uprising of debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers in 1787. |
| James Madison | ___is known as the "Father of the Constitution." |
| excuses | He that is good for making ___ is seldom good for anything else. ~ Benjamin Franklin. |
| preamble | The ___ is the introduction to the U.S. Constitution. |
| Bill of Rights | The first ten amendments to the Constitution are called the ___. |
| separation of powers | The division of our government into three branches is called the ___. |
| St. Valentine | ___ is the patron saint of lovers. |
| Judiciary Act | Congress passed the ___ in 1789 to create our court system. |
| inaugurate | To ___ means to swear in or induct into office in a formal ceremony. |
| cabinet | The group of department heads who serve as the president's chief advisers is called the ___. |
| Battle of Fallen Timbers | Mad |
| Alien and Sedition Acts | The ___ were a series of laws enacted in 1798 to reduce the political power of recent immigrants to the United States. |
| XYZ Affair | The ___ was a 1797 incident in which French officials demanded a bribe from U.S. diplomats. |
| Radicals | ___ are people who take extreme political positions. |
| Judicial Review | The principle of ___ gives the Supreme Court the power to declare a law or action unconstitutional. |
| Louisiana Territory | The ___ was purchased on April 30 |
| Lewis and Clark expedition | The ___ explored the lands of the Louisiana Purchase. |
| Sacagawea | ___ served as an interpreter and guide for the Lewis and Clark expedition. |
| Zebulon Pike | In 1806 |
| War of 1812 | British interference with the affairs of the United States led to the ___. |
| Star Spangled Banner | The ___ was composed by Francis Scott Key while he was held captive on a British ship. |
| Impressment | ___ is the act of kidnapping people to serve as sailors. |
| Industrial Revolution | During the ___ |
| Robert Fulton | ___ built a steamboat he called the Clermont that could move against the current or a strong wind. |
| Samuel Slater | ___ built the first successful water-powered textile mill in America. |
| Eli Whitney | ___ invented the cotton gin. |
| Lowell mills | The ___ employed farm girls who lived in company-owned boardinghouses. |
| Nat Turner | ___ led a slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831. |
| Sectionalism | ___ is the policy of placing interests of one's own region ahead of the interests of the nation as a whole. |
| Monroe Doctrine | The ___ opposed European interference in the Western Hemisphere. |
| attitude- aptitude-altitude | Your ___ |
| House of Representatives | If no person wins a majority of electoral votes |
| Jacksonian democracy | The idea of spreading political power to all the people and ensuring majority rule became known as ___. |
| spoils system | The practice of giving government jobs to political supporters is known as the ___. |
| Indian Removal Act | The ___ required Native Americans to relocate west of the Mississippi River. |
| trail of tears | The harsh journey of the Cherokee from their homeland to Indian Territory became became known as the ___. |
| Indian Territory | The area the Native Americans moved to |
| Tariff of Abominations | Southerners called the tariff of 1828 the ___ because they hated it. |
| Manifest destiny | ___ is the belief that the United States was destined to stretch across the continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. |
| Santa Fe Trail | The ___ began in Missouri and ended in Santa Fe |
| Brigham Young | ___ led the Mormons to the Great Salt Lake. |
| Alamo | In 1836 |
| Lone Star Republic | The republic of Texas was called the ___ after it won its independence in 1836. |
| Bear Flag Revolt | In California |
| California gold rush | The ___ took place in 1849 when gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill. |
| emigrant-immigrant | An ___ is a person who leaves a country and an ___ is a person who settles in a new country. |
| Prejudice | ___ is a negative opinion about a group that is not based on facts. |
| Irish Potato Famine | Between 1845 and 1849 the ___killed 1 million people and forced many to emigrate to the United States. |
| Civil disobedience | ___ is a form of protest in which protesters peacefully refuse to obey laws they consider unjust. |
| Abolition | ___ is the movement to end slavery. |
| Harriet Tubman | ___ was the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad. |
| Wilmot Proviso | The ___ was an unsuccessful attempt to outlaw slavery in territory the United States acquired from the war with Mexico. |
| Free Soil Party | The ___ was a political party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery. |
| Fugitive Slave Act | The ___ was an 1850 law that helped slaveholders recapture runaway slaves. |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | ___ published Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852. |
