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1. Notable members of this group included the slave York and the interpreter Sacagawea

2. As senator, one member of this family drafted a namesake Hurricane Survey Act and was implicated in a plan to install Smedley Butler as a fascist president, known as the Business Plot

3. The first African-American to hold this post was told that his political career 'was dead' after the murder of Yankel Rosenbaum

4. It was given in St, John's Church rather than the capital due to harassment from the forces of Lord Dunmore

5. It included the burning of the White House, and was ended by the Treaty of Ghent

6. Prior to this event, James McLaughlin overturned an idea to use Buffalo Bill to prevent violence

7. This president signed the Thomson-Urrutia Treaty, which granted a $25 million settlement to Colombia

8. Standing on the footsteps of the Lincoln Memorial, this man gave a speech envisioning his children being judged not by their color, but by 'the content of their character

9. Locations set up for this action included the Tanforan and Manzanar centers

10. This creator of the Freeport Doctrine was instrumental to the passage of the Compromise of 1850

11. This man retained Henry Kissinger in his cabinet from his predecessor

12. He was opposed by reform-minded Mugwumps, who abandoned the party to support Grover Cleveland in 1884

13. He was appointed head of food distribution in West Germany after WWII due to his successful heading of the US Food Administration after WWI

14. Name this scandal in which funding for Nicaraguan anti-Communist rebels was obtained from America's sale of weapons to an Islamic Republic where hostages had been held by the Ayatollah

15. The Advancement of Sound Science Center lobbies on behalf of this commodity

16. The Payne-Aldrich tariff was passed under his presidency, and this man's Secretary of State, Philander Knox, began the policy ofDollar Diplomacy'

17. The actions of this colony's military were parodied in a work with the chapterThe Valiant Expedition of Captain Shrimp'

18. A florist plaintiff named Fred brought forward a Supreme Court case on behalf of this group

19. Its leader, Neamathla, objected to US troops attackingNegro Fort,' which threatened this tribe's territory

20. His government purchased ships such as the Alabama from Great Britain, and he allegedly fled Richmond in women’s clothing, after having years earlier ordered P G T Beauregard to open fire on Fort Sumter

21. Earlier in life, this woman attended the Perkins Institute where she learned language and speech from Anne Sullivan

22. Britain refused to officially recognize it, even though this government held the belief thatcotton was king'

23. He first gained prominence supporting Barry Goldwater with the 1964 speech 'A Time for Choosing'

24. The literacy of this tribe was facilitated by a syllabary created by Sequoyah

25. The turning point in the first of these wars was William Eaton’s capture of Derne, which is memorialized in the second line of the Marines’ Hymn