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1. French general Comte de Rochambeau led the French forces in this battle, who were allied with Continental army

2. Its original version was lost, but a version generally accepted as accurate comes from Mourt's Relation

3. Leonard Dawe was suspected of leaking information about this event due to the answer selection of his Daily Telegrapher crossword

4. His first term was marred by the Nullification Crisis, which led to the resignation of his first Vice President, John C Calhoun

5. Most historians argue that this man'sLetter on Texas,' in which he stated that he would only annex that territorywithout dishonor [and] without war' was decisive in his losing the 1844 election to Polk

6. This state contains the country's largest swamp, the Atchafalaya Basin, and Lake Pontchartrain (PON-cha-train) lies north of its largest region, Jefferson

7. This state seized William Claiborne's trading post of Kent Island from its southern neighbor

8. This man forced the Arkansas National guard to integrate the Little Rock Nine

9. GeneralOrder Number 28 barred this city's women from insulting Union troops while Benjamin Butler occupied it

10. The doctrine of constitutional avoidance was introduced in a Supreme Court case between Ashwander and this corporation

11. Intelligence for this battle was provided by Oscar Williams, and one of its causes was that Secretary of the Navy John Long left work early one day, leaving his assistant in charge

12. Some of this president's domestic programs included the Federal Farm Board and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation

13. that leader was named Jack Wilson or Wovoka

14. George Snowden led state militia troops ordered by Governor Robert Pattison to help resolve this event

15. Along with Russ Feingold, this senator sponsored the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 meant to restrict election contributions

16. In 1824, this man was appointed as Secretary of State by John Quincy Adams after the presidential election went to a House runoff

17. This company lends its name to an 1893 Act of Congress that barred government agencies from hiring its employees or those of George Thiel's rival firm

18. G Gordon Liddy oversaw participants in this event paid by CREEP, called the Plumbers

19. This crop was most dominant in the Tidewater—around the Chesapeake and North Carolina—as opposed to the Deep South's cotton

20. George Gordon Meade won this battle, which saw intense fighting at Culp's Hill and Little Round Top

21. During this event, German immigrant Levi Strauss began selling blue jeans near John Sutter’s mill

22. Depth charges were dropped on the B-59 during it, leading to a scramblefrom Wrangel Island

23. During this place's namesake campaign, one side established headquarters at Grenada, and its siege was made possible by the battles of Champion's Hill and Big Black River

24. The namesake of this event issued aDeclaration of the People' that called for the surrender of many members of the gentry

25. A holder of this position mocked the Republican nominee for being born with a 'silver foot in his mouth' at the 1988 DNC. That holder of this position, Ann Richards, may have been hurt by push polls run by Karl Rove during the 1994 election for this position