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the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820
On March 3, 1820, Congress passed a bill granting Missouri statehood as a slave state under the condition that slavery was to be forever prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase north of the 36th parallel,

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He purchased Florida for 5 million dollars
He got the land from Spain

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detailed a government with three branches: legislative, executive and judicial.
He felt the government should be set up with a system of checks and balances so no branch had greater power over the other.

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wrote detailed notes during the Constitutional convention
didn't like the articles of confederation

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he sent a delegation to France to negotiate a treaty but the French refused to meet with the delegates
An undeclared naval war broke out between the U.S. and France in 1798 and lasted until 1800, when a peace treaty was signed.

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noted for organizing several hundred Sunday schools.
served as a Congregationalist deacon

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The Monroe Doctrine was a United States policy of opposing European colonialism in The Americas beginning in 1823.
a warning to European countries against further colonization and intervention in the Western Hemisphere.

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The Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution
It was ratified December 15, 1791

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paid 15 million for all of french land
The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the Louisiana territory by the United States from France in 1803.

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Wrote the Virginia statute of religious freedom

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Wrote the Virginia statute of religious freedom

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On January 16, 1786, the Assembly enacted the statute into the state's law.
It separated the church and state

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provide unalienable rights life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
finished on July 4th, 1776

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became the nation’s first vice president.

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he was selected president of the US 1789
The 57-year-old Washington was inaugurated on April 30, 1789, in New York City.

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Commander in chief of the continental army

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Commander in chief of the continental army

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In 1783, with a peace treaty signed between Great Britain and the U.S., Washington
in 1787, he was asked to attend the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia and head the committee to draft the new constitution.

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In 1787, he was elected president of the convention that wrote the U.S. Constitution.
He never lead any debates in the convention

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1817-1825 years in office
DOB; April 28, 1758
DOD; July 4, 1831
Political party; Democratic-Republican

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1809-1817 years in office
DOB; March 26, 1751
DOD; June 28, 1836
Political party; Democratic-Republican

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1801-1809 years in office
DOB; April 13th, 1743
DOD; July 4th 1826
Political party; Democratic-Republican

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1797-1801 years in office
DOB; Oct. 30th, 1735
DOD; July 4th, 1826
Political party; Federalist

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1789-1797 years in office
DOB; Feb. 22nd, 1732
DOD; Dec. 14th, 1799
Political party; None, Federalist