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The founder of the Mormon Church, Smith was murdered in Illinois in 1844.
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Appointed Chief Justice in 1801, Marshall expanded the Supreme Court's power and prestige and established its power to determine the constitutionality of the acts of other branches of government and to declare unconstitutional acts null and void. He defended the supremacy of the federal government over state governments and held that the Constitution should be. Construed broadly and flexibly.
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As the nation's second president, Adams had to deal with deteriorating relations between the United States and France. Conflicts between the two countries were evident in the XYZ Affair and the "Quasi War" of 1798 to 1800.
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Georgia governor in 1970, and president in 1976. His progressive racial views reflected an emergent South less concerned with racial distinctions and more concerned with economic development and political power.
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The Father of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and a co founder of the Jeffersonian Republican party, Madison served as president during the War of 1812.
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In November 1979, Iranian students seized the U. S. Embassy compound in Tehran and held 52 Americans inside hostage for 444 days.
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A procedure that allows citizens to propose legislation through petitions, it was passed by numerous states at the turn of the century but rarely used until the 1970s.
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Redemption certificates pardoning persons from punishment in the afterlife that were being sold by the Roman Catholic church. Martin Luther particularly condemned this practice in his Ninety five Theses, in bringing on the Protestant Reformation.
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During the early nineteenth century, reformers succeeded in restricting imprisonment of debtors.
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The national security advisor to President Nixon, the Harvard educated German Jewish immigrant was a staunch anti Communist. He was Nixon's closest associate on matters of foreign policy.
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