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Land I Love Chapter 8 pp 150 - 162
Land I love Chapter 8
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History
8th Grade
01/25/2011

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Who led on thousand soldiers to defeat the Indians at the Battle of Tippecanoe?
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William Henry Harrison
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What President sent Zebulon Pike to explore the southern half of the Louisiana Territory?
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President Jefferson
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What term means to limit or stop trade with other nations
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embargo
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Francis Scott Key wrote __________________ which was later set to music and became our national anthem.
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"The Star-Spangled Banner"
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Who said, "We have met the enemy and they are ours," when he defeated the British at the Battle of Lake Erie?
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Oliver Hazard Perry
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What was perhaps the most violent earthquake in American history?
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New Madrid Quake
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What man, who had personally written a large part of the United States Constitution, became President after Thomas Jefferson?
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James Madison
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Name the 14,110 - foot summit that Zebulon Pike discovered in the Rocky Mountains.
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Pike's Peak
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What Indian leader was killed at the Battle of Thames River?
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Tecumseh
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How did the Missouri Compromise of 1820 achieve a political balance between the North and the South?
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by admitting Maine as a free state and providing for the admission of Missouri as a slave state
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