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Federalists

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In the campaign to ratify the Constitution of 1787, nationalists started referring to themselves as federalists, which conveyed the meaning that they were in favour of splitting authority between ...

Radical leaders in the South during the years leading up to the Civil War, the fire eaters were persons who took an extreme pro slavery position. They repeatedly expressed their desire to see slavery ...

Enlightenment

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A broadly influential philosophical and intellectual movement that began in Europe during the eighteenth century. The Enlightenment unleashed a tidal wave of new learning, especially in the sciences ...

Emancipation Proclamation

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President Abraham Lincoln issued a preliminary proclamation in September 1862 that all slaves would be declared free in those states that were still in rebellion against the Union at the beginning of ...

Embargo of 1807

History; American history

An attempt to stop British and French interference with American shipping by prohibiting foreign trade.

George Washington

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As the nation's first president, Washington helped define the powers of the presidency, demonstrated in the Whiskey Rebellion that the national government would enforce federal law, cleared the Ohio ...

General Douglas MacArthur

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Bold, arrogant American general celebrated for his successful amphibious invasion at Inchon, on North Korean forces' rear. MacArthur's subsequent invasion into North Korea stalled, and President ...