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1. Another employee of this man, John Colman, was killed with an arrow to the neck and may have been buried at Sandy Hook, New Jersey

2. Richard Lawrence tried to assassinate this man, who vetoed the Maysville Road Bill

3. As president, he signed the Norris-LaGuardia Act and created the Reconstruction Finance Corporation

4. This cause was championed in the UK by Emmeline Pankhurst, at around the same time it was being led in the US by people like Alice Paul, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B Anthony

5. A series of letters by Afonso I requested Joao III to curtail this practice among his subjects

6. Six cadets known as the 'Child Heroes' died during the Battle of Chapultepec in this war

7. Lorrin Thurston led a group in this polity known as the Committee of Safety, which worked with US Minister John Stevens

8. This man was opposed by the National Progressive Republican League led by Robert LaFollette, and his administration passed the Payne–Aldrich Tariff

9. During one campaign he declaredread my lips: no new taxes,' and as president he joined a coalition against the invasion of Kuwait

10. Secretary of Treasury Benjamin Bristow helped break one scandal during this man’s presidency, which led to the indictment of Orville Babcock

11. Banastre Tarleton fled this state after his British were crushed at Cowpens

12. Those two vessels were sunk by one enemy craft, however, while another ship, the Minnesota, ran aground

13. This man carried out one campaign, which resulted in the death of Dangerfield Newby, armed withBeecher's Bibles' that he purchased using money procured from the Secret Six

14. Emily Davison was trampled in the Epsom Derby while protesting in support of this cause

15. Its businessmen pioneered a system where a bell rang at 4:40 AM to wake young girls in company-owned dorms for work in mills such as Lowell

16. A speech by this man opens historian Joseph Ellis's new and otherwise unrelated book, The Quartet

17. This ally of Father Charles Coughlin promoted socialist reforms in his Share the Wealth campaign which promised to make 'every man a king

18. With the encouragement of Senator Arthur Vandenberg, this man defeated Bartel Jonkman to win a House seat

19. This rebellion was ended by the Treaty of Middle Plantation after Governor William Berkeley finally regained control of the colony

20. For 20 points, name this Kentucky congressman and senator whose work with the Missouri Compromise and Compromise 1850 gave him his nickname as theGreat Compromiser'

21. During congressional debate over this agreement, a Senator from New York claimed there wasa higher law than the Constitution'

22. Patrick Blossom proposed a plan to reform this state's schools, which was rejected under pressure from the Capital Citizens’ Council

23. Because most of one side's ships were illegally built in London, the victor of this conflict received damages from the British government in the Alabama claims

24. One theatre of this war was a miserably failed invasion of Portugal known as the Fantastic War

25. In this battle, John Pelham's guns on Nicodemus Hill fired on troops heading for the Dunker Church