1. Where was the capital city prior to the construction of the new capital in Washington, D.C.?
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2. Who built the capitol building in Washington, D.C.?
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3. What did Noah Webster hope to achieve with the publication of his first book?
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4. In 1789 which state became the first to institute free public elementary education for all children?
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5. What was Jefferson’s philosophy about the role of government?
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6. The Louisiana Purchase raised constitutional questions regarding the
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7. What act or case determined that the Supreme Court had the authority to decide if federal laws were constitutional?
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8. Jefferson supported political revolutions in America and France but not Haiti because the Haitian Revolution
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9. Eli Whitney earned a fortune with the invention of the
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10. In the 1810s, what region of the United States was home to a vast series of cotton mills built to look like meetinghouses?
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11. What impact did the invention of the cotton gin have on slavery?
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12. What was the most common practice among southern planters to increase their slave population after 1808?
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