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List one example given by Hannah Curtis of how the Irish people were suffering during the Irish Potato Famine.

Give three examples of internal improvements in the decades before the Civil War.

The American and French Victory at this battle in 1781 convinced the British to cut their losses and sue for peace.

The Scots Irish immigrants almost all followed this religion.

This future Revolutionary leader played a key role in the Battle of the Monongahela (Braddock’s Defeat), a British loss early in the French & Indian War.

John Winthrop became the first governor of this New England colony.

The Alien & Sedition Acts punished supposedly disloyal speech and led to the jailing of opposition party journalists, potentially violating the freedoms of [right1] and [right2].

The Northwest Ordinance banned this institution in the territories north of the Ohio River.

The Articles of Confederation created a weaker central government, reserving significant power to the states.

When Winthrop referred to the new Puritan settlement as a “city upon a hill”, he meant that they would be a ___________________ of proper Christian living to the rest of the world.