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| How did geography effect the development of the different Native American cultures? |
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| The different Native American culture groups relied on their geography to provide them with everything they needed to survive, it was the center of their cultures. |
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| What were the causes of the Age of Exploration? |
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| The Crusades and Renaissance introduced Europe to new exotic goods, ideas, technology, and increased the general curiosity of European population. |
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| Describe the Effects of the Age of Exploration |
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| Death, Disease, Slavery, Spread of Christianity, The Columbian Exchange. |
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| What role did geography play in the economy of the different colonial regions of the Colonies? |
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| Geography was central to the development of the 3 regions. New England-The Sea, Middle-The Bread Basket, Southern-Cash Crops (Rice, Indigo, Cotton) |
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| Describe the Triangular Trade and how it benefited the three points of the triangle? |
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| Europe recieved raw materials, Colonies and Africa Recieved manufactured products and defense, Africa gave up large numbers of slaves. |
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| Describe the middle passage. |
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| Journey from Freedom into slavery, from Africa to the Colonies. dangerous, disgusting, deadly, dirty, etc. |
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| Why did teh British impose new taxes on the American Colonists? |
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| To pay for the French and Indian War and their future defense. |
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| Why were the Colonists opposed to the British Taxes and Acts? |
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| No Taxation without Representation |
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| What drove the Colonists to want independence from Britian? |
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| Increased involvment in colonial affairs by the British government, Colonists were losing the Self-Government that they had previously been granted. |
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| Explain the significance of the Declaration of Independence. |
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| Let the world know that people are Created Equal and born with their Natural Rights that governments are created to protect. Further it spelled out the reasons for the colonists independence. |
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| Why is the Battle of Saratoga considered the turning point of the American Revolution? |
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| From that point on the colonists were winning the war, it gained them recognition and support from France. |
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| What were the main weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation? |
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| Unable to Tax, No executive or Judicial branches, could not enforce its own laws. |
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| Division of power between the State and Federal governments, powers are delegated to the national government, reserved for the states or shared by both. |
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| How does the Constitution divide the powers of the national government? |
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| 3 Branches- Legislative: Makes the Laws, Executive: Carries out the Laws, Judicial: decides if the laws are fair. |
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| What is guaranteed by the Bill of Rights? |
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| The rights of the individual are protected ie, Freedom of Speech, religion, etc. |
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| What precedents did George Washington set as the 1st President? |
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| Two-Term limit, Cabinet, "Mr. President", Policy of Neutrality |
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| What is the purpose of political parties? |
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Definition
| It is a group of people who join together to promote a common set of political ideas, power in numbers |
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| How did the United States Achieve Manifest Destiny? |
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| A series of land acquisitions, Louisiana purchase, Texas Annexation, Mexican Cession, Gasden Purchase. |
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| What new methods of transportation did America develop in the mid-1800's |
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| Canals, toll roads, railroads |
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| How did Industrialization, Urbanization, and technology affect the North? |
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| It shifted the north from a rural farming society into an urban industrial society that produced finish products rather than raw materials. |
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| How did the invention of the cotton gin affect the South? |
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| It increased the demand and profitability of cotton, which inturn increased the demand for land and slaves to work the land. |
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| How did abolitionists try to bring and end to slavery? |
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| Underground RR, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Bleeding Kansas, John Brown's raid, Speeches, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass |
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| What were the political, social, and economic causes of the Civil War? |
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Political- State's Rights vs. National Power. Social- Abolition vs. Slavery
Economic- viability of Slave labor |
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| How did individual events increase the tension between the North and South? |
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| Events such as Bleeding Kansas, the Dred Scott decision, and John Brown's raid convinced people that the two sides could not get along and compromise any longer. |
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| What were the political, social, and economic effects of the Civil War? |
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| 13, 14, and 15th amendments, death, destruction, Freedman's Bureau, Plessy v. Ferguson, Segregation, Racism, Cycle of Poverty. |
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| What Leg of the Triangular Trade would be an example of Mercantilism? |
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| Who did the Emancipation Proclamation attempt to Free? |
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| All Slaves in the Confederacy. |
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