A politician of this ethnicity mysteriously left during the night before officially resigning, so a messenger had to be sent to obtain a formal note from him. Unrest began after farmers of this ethnic group were subject to the so-called Window Tax and later revolted in Milford. A politician of this ethnicity, who was stabbed by his own brother-in-law after ratifying Jay’s Treaty, legendarily vetoed this ethnicity’s language from becoming the (*) official language of the United States. That politician of this ethnicity would serve as first Speaker of the House. A general of this ethnicity promulgated the “Blue Book” as part of his reforms of the Continental Army at Valley Forge. Many so-called Pennsylvania Dutch were actually, for 10 points, what ethnicity of Frederick Muhlenberg and Baron von Steuben? ■END■
ANSWER: German-Americans [accept Pennsylvania Dutch until read; reject “Dutch”]
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