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This politician told his wife “I am ashamed to say, who is Wheeler?” shortly before William Wheeler was nominated as his running mate. In support of the gold standard, this President vetoed the Bland-Allison Act. This President agreed to the Compromise of 1877, in which Reconstruction was ended in exchange for support against Samuel Tilden. , name this Ohio Republican who succeeded Ulysses S. Grant as President.

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The film One Man’s Hero focuses on this unit which is remembered on the Wall of Honor in the Chamber of Deputies. Following William Worth's attack, many members of this group were captured and hanged at the Battle of Churubusco. This group was led by a U.S. army defector named John Riley. Fifty members of this group were executed, which remains the largest mass execution in U.S. history. For the point, name this military unit which fought for Mexico in the Mexican-American War under a flag with a yellow harp and sixteen shamrocks.

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After the passage of this law, a newly appointed governor negotiated the Treaty of Fort Harmar. This law’s protection of things like freedom of worship has led to it being called the first National Bill of Rights. This law, which led to the appointment of Arthur St. Clair as provisional governor, built off of an ordinance from three years prior that established the Public Land Survey System. , name this 1787 law that created the first organized incorporated territory of the United States in land that now stretches from Minnesota to Ohio.

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An enslaved member of this organization known as Cato helped foil an attempted kidnapping of New Jersey governor William Livingston. Anna Strong is believed by some to have been this organization's "Agent 355." Other members of this organization included Major Benjamin Talmadge and tailor Hercules Mulligan. This organization was named by George Washington after a county in Virginia, and it discovered that Benedict Arnold was plotting with John André to turn over West Point to the British. s, name this ring of spies in and around New York City during the American Revolution.

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A company founded by this man employed steamboat captain Joseph LaBarge and used a ship called the Macedonian as part of this man's opium ventures. The Robert Stuart House served as a key location for this organization on Mackinac [[MAK-in-naw]] Island. An estate that constituted nearly one percent of the U.S. GDP was left by this man, who is considered America’s earliest multimillionaire. A port city in Oregon is named after this man, who made his fortune trading the product of trappers. For the point, name this German-born founder of the American Fur Company.

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