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    The Hartford Convention was a series of meetings from December 15, 1814, to January 5, 1815, in Hartford, Connecticut, United States, in which New England...
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    the Hartford Civic Center) is a multi-purpose arena and convention center located in downtown Hartford, Connecticut. Owned by the City of Hartford, it...
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    gathered at the Hartford Convention to discuss New England's possible secession from the United States. During the early 19th century, the Hartford area was...
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    realistic proposal for action." Federalist party members convened the Hartford Convention on December 15, 1814, and they addressed their opposition to the...
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    quarter of 2014. The Hartford Convention was a series of meetings dating from December 15, 1814, to January 5, 1815, taking place in Hartford, Connecticut. They...
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    England sent delegates to the Hartford Convention in December 1814. During the proceedings of the Hartford Convention, secession from the Union was discussed...
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    impacted by the trade embargo, while the Federalists convened the Hartford Convention in December to formalize their opposition to the war. In August 1814...
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    in the U.S. Senate and was the presiding officer of the infamous Hartford Convention. During and after his term in the Senate, Cabot was a major figure...
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    Theodore (1833). History of the Hartford Convention. New York: N. & J. White. Retrieved March 30, 2011. hartford convention. Hickey, Donald R. The War of...
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    the Federalist Party had largely dissolved after the fiasco of the Hartford Convention in 1814–15. As a party, Federalists "had collapsed as a national...
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    (East Hartford) Hartford Seminary (Hartford) Rensselaer at Hartford (Hartford) Trinity College (Hartford) University of Hartford (West Hartford) University...
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    New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. Its capital is Hartford, and its most populous city is Bridgeport. Connecticut lies between the...
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    war and by radical rhetoric from New England Federalists at the Hartford Convention. Also, President Madison had adopted certain measures favored by...
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  • threat of secession by New England ended after the failure of the Hartford Convention. In Britain, the importance of the conflict was totally overshadowed...
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    and is now known best for his political cartoons, especially "The Hartford Convention or LEAP NO LEAP", perhaps the most widely printed illustration regarding...
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    Revolutionary War soldier, politician, and delegate to the secessionist Hartford Convention. Ward was born in Westerly, Rhode Island on November 17, 1756. He...
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    Nominating Convention, 1808," The American Historical Review, Vol. 17, No. 4 (July 1912), pp. 744–763 in JSTOR Banner, To the Hartford Convention (1970);...
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    15, 1814, to January 5, 1815, collectively known as the Hartford Convention. The convention was called to address the ongoing War of 1812, as well as...
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    war. The leaders of the Federalist Party of New England met at the Hartford Convention and decided to deliver a set of demands to the federal government...
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    England secession movement and helped organize the Hartford Convention. The fallout from the convention ended Pickering's political career. He lived as a...
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    relocation to Hartford, targeted for early April. Hartford was about to open a new, modern downtown arena and convention center, the Hartford Civic Center...
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    convention in his Letters Developing the Character and Views of the Hartford Convention (1820) and his Letters in Defence of the Hartford Convention (1824)...
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    James Madison (category Delegates to the Virginia Ratifying Convention)
    England states held the Hartford Convention, where they asked for several amendments to the Constitution. Though the Hartford Convention did not explicitly...
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    T. Draper, Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Convention from 1982 to 1984, was born in Hartford in 1935, where his father, James Draper, Sr., was...
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    national political identities. With the Federalists discredited by the Hartford Convention against the War of 1812, they were in decline nationally, and the...
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    Massachusetts) was a representative from Massachusetts to the 1814–15 Hartford Convention. Prescott was the only child of American Revolution leader Colonel...
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  • separate peace with Britain or even seceding from the Union. At the Hartford Convention of 1814, delegates from several New England states met to discuss...
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  • to the War of 1812 was centered in New England. Delegates to a convention in Hartford, Connecticut, met in December 1814 to consider a New England response...
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  • tensions came to a head during the War of 1812, resulting in the Hartford Convention which manifested New England's dissatisfaction with a foreign trade...
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    recovered. What finally finished off the Federalist party was the Hartford Convention of 1814, in which five New England states gathered to discuss several...
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