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1. He appointed the Seneca Indian Ely S Parker as Commissioner of Indian Affairs

2. Grand Isle is one of this state's largest barrier islands

3. For 20 points, name this commander of the Confederate Army during the Civil War

4. This battle notably did not see the participation of the Shōkaku and Zuikaku because of damages sustained a month earlier

5. A statute passed in the wake of this movement was held to not violate the Fourteenth Amendment in the Supreme Court case Mugler v Kansas

6. This man passed a law forcing the government to provide public access television and names a bill with an Alabama Senator that reorganized the US military

7. Tulsa resident Cyrus Avery is nicknamed thefather' of one of these structures

8. This person is pictured holding a bag between David Wilmot and Horace Greeley in the political cartoonThe Hurly-Burly Pot'

9. Samuel Ward King opposed electoral reform in this state, leading to the Dorr Rebellion, and it was home to the Narragansetts

10. The break of this person from his grandfather Solomon Stoddard can be seen in his Yale Commencement AddressThe Distinguishing Marks', and his opposition to Arminianism can be found in works such as The Life of David Brainerd

11. This was the major victory that convinced France to formally join the war against Britain

12. His rearguard was massacred on a causeway across LakeTexcoco during theNoche Triste. He was the first European to see Tenochtitlan (ten-oak-teet-LON), and he conquered an empire led by Montezuma II

13. One campaign in this war ended with the rendezvous of Robert Stockton and Stephen Kearny [KAR-nee] near the site of the Bear Flag Revolt

14. The success of this work was assured after one figure dramatically arrived after riding eighty miles through a storm

15. This nation sent a delegation to London to negotiate the Treaty of Whitehall, and it earlier defeated the Muscogee at the Battle of Taliwa

16. The largest continuous swamp in the United States is this state's Atchafalya Basin, which is fed by waterways that include the Bayou Teche

17. This war’s battles of Chateauguay and Crysler’s Farm caused one side to give up on an attempt to invade their northern neighbor

18. This organization's second president Langdon Cheves restored its integrity by weeding out incompetent officers, including the director of that Baltimore branch, James McCulloch, who was also involved in the namesake 1819 Supreme Court case that established Congress's implied powers

19. His wife Floride led an effort to snub John O'Neale's wife in the Peggy Eaton affair,which led to an overhaul of the Cabinet and the creation of the Kitchen Cabinet

20. While working for this group, Kate Warne may have foiled an assassination plot against Abraham Lincoln

21. As president, he reacted to the Quasi- War with France, appointed John Marshall and themidnight judges,' and supported the Alien and Sedition Acts

22. One of its founders, Noble Jones, constructed the estate at Wormsloe near Yamacraw Bluff

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

24. He ordered the Saturday Night Massacre' after a legal battle over some tape recordings which would have actions carried out by CREEP

25. His decision to forgo a cross party presidential ticket with a Connecticut Democrat was chronicled in the book Game Change