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1. Although Jo Daviess accused this man of inciting a rebellion in the Southwest, his attorney Henry Clay was able to settle the case

2. His campaign ran on a platform of a crusade against 'Communism, Korea, and Corruption

3. This state’s namesake 'Toleration Act' guaranteed religious freedom for Trinitarian Christians

4. In response to another case originating from this state, Andrew Jackson said, 'John Marshall has made his decision

5. Along with a US Navy boat, three ships belonging to an offshoot of this institution were attackedby the Japanese in the 1937 Panay incident

6. The writing system for the language of this people was invented by Sequoyah

7. Units here included Fraser's Highlanders, the Royal Welch Fusiliers, and Banastre Tarlton's British Legion

8. This man’s presidency witnessed a conflict known as the Battle of Caribou on the Maine-New Brunswick border

9. Sanford Dole was a prominent American businessman in this kingdom, whose territory was annexed by the US in 1898 over the objections of its last queen, Liliuokalani

10. Fort St Philip was besieged during this battle, which saw the death of General Edward Pakenham

11. Henry David Thoreau was jailed for refusing to pay taxes which might support this war, which saw Zachary Taylor's forces win decisively at Buena Vista

12. This cause suffered a blow when Minor v Happersett held that it could not be enacted through the Fourteenth Amendment's citizenship clause, and it was later addressed in Leser v Garnett

13. The sieges of St, Vith and Bastonne occurred during it

14. Dudingston had been stopping smuggling, and the English reaction to the attack was to threaten to try Americans for treason in England

15. He used the sloganLet us have peace' in his campaign against Horatio Seymour

16. In 1807, Britain established a naval squadron to hunt down people engaged in this activity after a law declaring it illegal was passed thanks to lobbying by William Wilberforce

17. Once this operation's location was selected, it was known as Operation Zapata

18. One leader of this group gained fame after surviving falling down a waterfall

19. Afterwards, the leader of this event wrote that he was certain that the crimes of the United Stateswill never be purged away but with blood' before his execution. That leader had earlier hacked five men to death in Pottawatomie Creek after the sacking of Lawrence, Kansas, and this event ended when he was captured by Marines under the command of Robert E Lee

20. Name this industrialist who started a car company

21. The case of Harriet Robinson was merged with this case, and it was filed after a journey to Illinois and the Wisconsin Territory

22. One inciting object of this campaign is now in the Henry Ford Museum

23. Another politician from here opposed Judge Benjamin Pavy and was killed by Pavy's son-in-law, Dr. Carle Weiss

24. In a 1989 case from Missouri, Justice O'Connor refused to reconsider the holding in this case

25. This man headed the National Guard during the deposition of Charles X