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| An underground or partly underground chamber in a Pueblo village, used by the men especially for ceremonies or councils. |
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| A partition or distribution, especially of slaves; also, an assessment of taxes. --W. Irving. |
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| Cahokia Mounds, a group of approximately 85 prehistoric Native American earthworks. Population: 17,550. |
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| Any of several types of small, light sailing ships, especially one with two or three masts and lateen sails used by the Spanish and Portuguese in the 15th and 16th centuries. |
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| Selectman \Se*lect"man\, n.; pl. Selectmen. One of a board of town officers chosen annually in the New England States to transact the general public business of the town, and have a kind of executive authority. The number is usually from three to seven in each town. |
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| Excessive devotion to local interests and customs. |
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| The zero meridian (0°), used as a reference line from which longitude east and west is measured. It passes through Greenwich, England. |
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Events during his presidency
Louisiana Purchase (1803)
Admission of Ohio to the Union in 1803
Creation of the Orleans Territory in 1804
Marbury v. Madison (1803)
Land Act of 1804
Twelfth Amendment is ratified (1804)
Lewis and Clark expedition (1804-1806)
Creation of the Louisiana Territory (later renamed the Missouri Territory) in 1805
Tertium quids create a divide in the Republican Party (the Democratic-Republican Party_(United_States))
Embargo Act of 1807, an attempt to force respect for U.S. neutrality by ending trade with the belligerents in the Napoleonic War
Abolition of the external slave trade in 1808
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