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American History

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Heavyweight politician who presided over both the White House and the Supreme Court (4)
Supporter of a strong central government, championed in eighty-five essays (10)
The Great Compromiser who never quite molded the presidency (4)
A pledge, or the redcoat general who locked down Boston (4)
Dark horse president who mapped out Manifest Destiny in a single term (4)
Undercover operative like Nathan Hale, who regretted having only one life (3)
The turbulent twelve-year rebuilding phase of a fractured Union (14)
Mrs. O'Leary's legendary scapegoat for the Great Chicago Fire (3)
Texan mission that became a battle cry for remembrance (5)
Brew that caused a steep tax revolt in Boston Harbor (3)
To allow, or the Union general whose face is on the fifty-dollar bill (5)
The only president of a country that existed for just four years (5)
A formal pact, like the Paris one that officially ended the Revolution (6)
Writer who argued it was only common sense to break from the King (5)

General who surrendered his sword under an apple tree at Appomattox (3)
The polymath who penned the Declaration and bought Louisiana on a whim (9)
A state of civil or revolutionary conflict (3)
A father-son presidential duo who both served single terms (5)
Opportunistic Northerner who packed cheap luggage to exploit the post-war South (12)
The supreme law of the land, drafted behind closed doors in Philadelphia (12)
To carve up voting districts like a mythical political salamander (11)
Penny-pinching face of the Union who preserved it from a theater seat (7)
Luxury sleeper car king whose wage cuts sparked a nationwide rail strike (7)