USA history Flashcards
(473 cards)
During this man’s presidency, twenty-four stockbrokers met under a tree in Manhattan to sign the Buttonwood Agreement.
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After leaving North Carolina, the preacher Herman Husband fomented anger against a tax passed by this president.
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A two-year long economic panic during this man’s presidency was caused by a land speculation bubble driven by Robert Morris.
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During this man’s presidency, a “dinner-table bargain” led to the passage of the Funding Act, which allowed the federal government to assume state debts.
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Early in his career, this man served as an emissary to a Mingo chieftain known as the “Half King.”
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That chieftain, Tanacharison, helped this man win the Battle of Jumonville Glen.
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An expedition led by John Forbes culminated in this man’s forces’ capture of Fort Duquesne.
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This man led a heroic retreat at the Battle of Monongahela during the Braddock Expedition.
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This man gifted a bottle of rum to the Seneca Queen Alliquippa in thanks for the aid of her son, Kanuksusy.
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This man presided at Edward Braddock’s funeral after the Battle of Monongahela.
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He and James Mackay surrendered Fort Necessity to a French force
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This man was aided by the Mingo chief Tanacharison at the Battle of Jumonville Glen and exclaimed “It’s a fine fox chase my boys!” during the Battle of Princeton.
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This man declared that he had grown “almost blind in the service of my country” in a speech that ended the Newburgh Conspiracy, and he was the target of the conway Cabal.
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This general screamed at second-in-command Charles Lee during an oppressively hot battle which gave his horse heatstroke.
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This man miraculously evacuated 9000 troops across Brooklyn Ferry without a single loss of life.
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This man ordered Ezra Lee to attempt a submarine explosive attack on the HMS Eagle
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This man responded to praise from Moses Seixas in his “Letter to the Hebrew Congregation at Newport.”
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This man said that “overgrown military establishments” are hostile to liberty in a speech explaining that North and South, and East and West, were in “unrestrained intercourse.”
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At one battle, this man constructed redoubts overlooking Brenton’s Ford but came under artillery fire from Wilhelm von Knyphausen.
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At another battle, Adam Stephen’s drunkenness caused this man’s forces to fire upon each other accidentally.
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This general lost one battle when his subordinate, Adam Stephen, was intoxicated during it.
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In one speech, this man stated “Let me conjure you … to express our utmost horror and detestation of the man who … attempts to open the flood-gates of civil discord, and deluge our rising empire in blood.”
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During this man’s presidency, the Revenue Cutter Service was formed.
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One controversy during his term involved the arming of the Little Sarah.
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