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1. This man wrote five of the Federalist Papers

2. He was offered the Secretary of State post as part of theCorrupt Bargain' which led to the election of John Quincy Adams

3. He brought his son John with him during his last expedition for the Virginia Company and the British East India Company, but a mutiny led them both to be set adrift on a boat while the rest of the crew sailed away in the Discovery

4. This crop became widely grown after a machine was made to separate it from its seeds

5. Before this conflict, one leader claimed that theDay of the Call' justified his actions

6. Although it was supported by a broad coalition of indentured workers and frontier settlers, this event collapsed after its namesake leader, who had earlier led a force to burn Jamestown, died of dysentery

7. A story set in this state sensually describes a woman who has lips red as pomegranate seeds and the birthright of a creamy lily

8. The second of these wars =ended after a squadron led by the USS Guerriere destroyed an opposing force near Cape Gata

9. Scientific racist William Ripley authored a plan to consolidate this industry during the Great Depression

10. Alexander Hamilton proposed the excise tax that caused this event

11. In addition to DeWitt Clinton and Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, another member of this party introduced the resolution to prohibit slavery in the Northwest Territory. That man, Rufus King, was this party's final presidential candidate, and they never again held power after the Revolution of 1800

12. Nicholas Biddle lamented that this grouppredominated over the parlor,' and it was often consulted after the Peggy Eaton affair

13. One side in this battle believed they had sunk two American aircraft carriers when in reality they had simply struck the USS Yorktown twice

14. This man was the first to use the word Megalonyx to describe a certain genus of ground sloth

15. This Supreme Court case led to a second opinion in which the Court ordered its ruling to be implementedwith all deliberate speed'

16. The chief engineer of this structure worked with a group of self-taught workers. That chief engineer of this structure built off of the Mohawk River was Benjamin Wright

17. For 20 points, identify this crop which was fed into a machine made by Eli Whitney

18. William Halsey was sidelined from a battle at this location due to an outbreak of eczema and had to be replaced by Raymond Spruance

19. In 1972, this man defeated Lynn Lowe to become the youngest elected governor in the country

20. During this man's presidency, a border west of the San Juan Islands was set via the Treaty of Washington, by which his secretary of state Hamilton Fish resolved the Alabama claiMs, His attempt to annex Santo Domingo was supported by his private secretary, Orville Babcock

21. This man opposed the Declaration of Independence and sought to reconcile with Great Britain by writing most of the Olive Branch Petition, but he did serve in the Pennsylvania militia during the revolution

22. After hearing of the German siege of Bastogne during this battle, Anthony McAuliffe replied, 'Nuts!'

23. This man won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, signed the Camp David Accords, and was unable to negotiate the release of American hostages during the Iran embassy crisis

24. A folk etymology of the phraseOK' comes from a village near this city called Kinderhook

25. Founded by Sir Walter Raleigh, name this island off the coast of North Carolina, home to the Lost Colony

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