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Parliament had imposed many taxes on trade, but what was the first direct tax Britain had ever placed on the colonists?
In 1816 African American church leaders formed the first independent African American denomination, the...
To assist customs officers in arresting smugglers, the Revenue Act legalized the use of general search warrants called?
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 declared that colonists could not settle west of a line drawn north to south along...
On March 5, 1770, a crowd of colonists began taunting and throwing snowballs at a British soldier guarding a customs house, while resulted in...
With what laws did the British intend to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party and end colonial challenges to British authority?
Fighting between the British and French that began in 1754 in North America is known as
What document expressed loyalty to the king, but condemned the Coercive Acts and announced that the colonies were forming a nonimportation association?
As the Battle of Vicksburg was ending, another major battle was taking place in
The largest group of Irish immigrant between 1840 and 1860 was
First state to secede from the Union, in 1860 was
Today, the oldest political party in the United States is the
The first secretary of the treasury under the new government of 1789 was..
The importation of the enslaved people from Africa or any other foreign locale was made illegal in
The French and Indian war was NOT fought in
The term middle passage refers to the forcible transportation of enslaved Africans...
Between 1800 and 1820, the population of the United States
The Panic of 1819 resulted in a depression that lasted..
The English established the first permanent settlement in the New World in...
Under the checks and balances system, federal judges