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These were establishments that were popular in the 1920s during Prohibition that served alcoholic beverages illegally.

This meeting of New Englanders, many of them Federalists, denounced the War of 1812.  Party delegates secretly debated and rejected the idea of succession. They had just adjourned when news of Jackson’s victory in New Orleans and the peace treaty became known.  They did succeed at drafting amendments to be added to the Constitution.  However, the Federalists Party would never recover.

When the charter of the Bank of the United States expired in 1811, state banks _______.

This novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald exemplifies the glitz and glamour of the decade while revealing its dark morality and corruption.

This law banned immigration from East Asia entirely and reduced the quota for European immigrants; the result was an immigrant system that greatly favored Northwestern Europeans.

In McCulloch v. Maryland (1819), the Supreme Court confirmed the __________.

In 1814, the White House in Washington, D. C. was set fire by ________.

The chief designer of the capital of Washington, D.C. was ________.

In Boston King and the Black Loyalists of the American Revolution, “soldiers in the Loyalists army, former slaves were often given the easiest missions.” 

In Benjamin Rush, Thoughts Upon Female Education, 1787, list some benefits he anticipates for society and the family from extending educational opportunities to women?