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1. The Eastern branch of this tribe gained the Qualla Boundary in 1876 even though Chief Yonaguska could not buy land

2. This man chaired a committee to arbitrate the 'bread and roses' strike as a Massachusetts state senator, and he came to national prominence following the 1919 Boston police strike

3. It's not poverty-related, but an initiative of this kind was laid out in theNew Frontier' speech by John F Kennedy

4. This man was said to wallow in 'spoils like a rhinoceros in an African pool' by the newspaper editor E L Godkin, who was famous for his psychotic hate of this man

5. Thomas Wentworth Higginson and the other members of this group collaborated with John Brown

6. During a battle of this campaign, Leonard Wood's Rough Riders charged up San Juan Hill

7. In this man’s first command, 350 of his soldiers defeated 400 Hessians at the Battle of Gloucester

8. After seizing the chief location, the participants were spotted by a train and two days later, they were surrounded by Marines under Robert E Lee

9. One admiral during this war ordered his ships to 'damn the torpedoes!' at the Battle of Mobile Bay

10. During the Revolutionary War, the greatest mass surrender on the American side took place in this state when Benjamin Lincoln surrendered a city to Henry Clinton

11. Frederick Muhlenberg was stabbed for casting the deciding vote on a document named for this politician

12. Issues in this election included the naval Quasi-War with France and the Alien and Sedition Acts

13. Before this battle, McClellan had found Lee's orders

14. This politician said 'let us have faith that right makes might' during a speech delivered at a Manhattan college named for philanthropist Peter Cooper

15. Ruined infrastructure from this industry becameSherman's Neckties' during the March to the Sea

16. The American industrial revolution was sparked by textile mills built in this state's city of Lowell

17. James Wilkinson informed this man about the Conway Cabal that attempted to remove this man's power

18. A man with this surname served as Secretary of the Treasury under Rutherford B Hayes and Secretary of State under William McKinley

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

20. He won that election, but the rowdy antics of his supporters at his inauguration earned him the epithetKing Mob'

21. This man also presided over a case in which a state cited its sovereignty to deny the ability of a citizen to sue it

22. The 1893 Chicago World's Fair washeld to commemorate the four hundredth anniversary of this man's greatest accomplishment

23. One of these events in Annapolis culminated with the burning of the Peggy Stewart

24. A cannonball shot in this battle killed Judith Henry, who lived in the building that gave Henry House Hill its name

25. John Bly and Charles Rose were the only leaders of this event executed at its conclusion