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These revolutionary leaders favored a stronger national government than the one provided for in the Articles of Confederation. They believed that only a powerful national government, rather than self serving states, could deal effectively with the many vexing problems besetting the new nation. George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison were prominent nationalists.
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A Virginia slave and blacksmith who organized an attempted assault against Richmond in 1800.
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The nation's most famous fugitive slave and African American abolitionist, Douglass supported political action against slavery.
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During the early nineteenth century, a movement arose to end the death penalty.
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The first secretary of the treasury and a leader of the Federalist party. As secretary of the treasury, he devised a plan for repaying the nation's debts and promoting economic growth. This plan included funding and assumption of the national and state debts at face value, establishment of the Bank of the United States, and tariffs on imported goods. Hamilton died following a duel with Aaron Burr in 1804.
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As major general during the War of 1812, he defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend and a British army at the Battle of New Orleans. In 1818, he led an American incursion into Spanish held Florida. He served as seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837.
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The high cost of labor led to the establishment of a system of mass production through the manufacture of interchangeable parts.
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Termine che veniva originariamente usato nelle Americhe per indicare gli schiavi africani che riuscivano a fuggire e trovavano rifugio nelle foreste, fondando comunità indipendenti.
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Regole standardizzate pugilato del tardo XIX secolo, creando round strutturato tre minuti con un minuto di riposo periodi, vietare wrestling tiri e stive e specificando il numero di giri.
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