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1. This politician's wife, Floride, was chief among those to shun Peggy Eaton in the Petticoat Affair, which, along with a break over his president's support of the Tariff of Abominations, led to this man's replacement as vice president

2. After losing his first Senate race to a man nicknamedPappy' who was famous for his radio program, this man was elected when a publisher rushed back from a business trip to cast a vote in his favor to break a tie for his nomination

3. He had been criticized for sending food to the Soviet Union, but praised for feeding Belgium

4. Both Marquis de Montcalm and James Wolfe died in a major British victory of this war, the Battle of Plains of Abraham

5. Tecumseh’s rebellion is often folded into this war

6. This system's enactment was partly influenced by the Niihau incident, in which a pilot who took part in the attack on Pearl Harbor crashed into a Hawaiian island.

7. The Fort Niagara treaty responded to this war, which inspired a drunken rampage in western Pennsylvania by the Paxton Boys

8. This man's opposition to bimetallism was summed up in a speech that stated you shall not crucify mankind' on the titular structure

9. This politician critiqued an opponent's policy in coining the termvoodoo economics'

10. The losing side of this battle endured bombardment by gunboats commanded by David Porter, and this battle's losing commander refused to abandon his position when ordered to by Joseph Johnston

11. Edward Everett gave a two-hour speech at the site of this battle

12. The list of signees has survived thanks to Nathaniel Morton, and is equivalent to one provided by Thomas Prince from the annals of the drafter of this document

13. In another suburb of this city, Walter Reuther led a protest culminating in the Battle of the Overpass

14. The ruling in this case would be modified in Doughty v Maxwell to not include cases where a guilty plea has been entered, and extended to include police interrogations in Miranda v Arizona

15. Kitty Genovese was killed in this city

16. This man defeated Mariano Arista at Resaca de la Palma, and he became a brigadier general for his leadership at the Battle of Lake Okeechobee during the Seminole Wars

17. During this battle, the Bismarck Sea was sunk during a kamikaze attack

18. The victorious flagship was the USS Olympia

19. The Mormon Battalion helped to build Fort Moore during this war that was prompted by the Thornton Affair

20. Light-Horse Harry' Lee led the troops that put down this uprising

21. During this man’s presidency, the Polar Bear Expedition was ordered to Arkhangelsk

22. After arriving at Quivira and finding mainlyrocks and buffalo, this man executed a native guide known asthe Turk'

23. After John Slidell failed to purchase California and New Mexico, the Mexican-American War was fought during this man's presidency

24. The Wilcox Rebellion occurred here during the presidency of Sanford Dole, who, in 1893, helped end this place's monarchy

25. Lafayette McLaws defeated John Sedgwick's Sixth Army Corps at Salem Church and drove them back to Banks' Ford during this battle