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| war between France and Britian |
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| petitioned to become a free state |
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| woman's rights and abolitionist |
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| escaped slave abolitionist leader |
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| Seneca Falls Convention 1848 |
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| Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Luretia Mott women's suffrage |
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| (supreme court) blacks couldn't be or weren't ever going to be citizens under the US constitution |
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| system that enforces the seperation of powers and ensures that each branch has the authority and ability to restrain the powers of the other |
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| was the first time the supreme court declared something unconstitutional and established the concept of judicial review in the U.S. |
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| Brown v.Board of Education |
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| (1954) United States supreme court declared state laws establishing seperate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional |
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| founding father of the US, author, radical, inventor |
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| prohibits any US citizen the right to vote based on sex |
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| name of the first 10 amendments of the US Constitution. (James Madison) |
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| Declaration of Independence |
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| July 4th by the us constitution that said the 13 American colonies then at war with Great Britian were now independent states and no longer apart of the British empire |
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| has the Bills of Rights. Defines how the government works. The right of the citizen |
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outlawing alcoholic beverages nationwide 1920 - 1933
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| Women's Suffrage Movement |
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| the right of women to vote and run for office |
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| document that King John of England was forced to sign. The beginning of the gov in England. |
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| the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. Signed by pilgrims men agreed to form a temp governemnt and bound by its laws. |
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| is an ink blot test that projects one's personality; a projective test |
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| involved with the New Deal; provided relief to citizens |
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| lawyer and leader of the Indian National Congress Campaign. Known for non-violence. Civil disobedience are the best approaches to protest |
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| behavior that doesn't conform to social norms |
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| the amount of a product or service avaliable to consumers |
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| how much consumers are willing to pay for the product or service |
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| a general business slump in the national economy |
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| drastic decline in the national economy; decreasing business, falling prices, unemployment |
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| increase in prices occurs when general price level for all goods and services in an economy increases |
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| a reduction in the general level of prices as a result of a severe decline in economic activity |
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| firms transform the resources and raw materials into goods/services |
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| the direct exchange of one good for another good/service |
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| family with a husband, wife, children |
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| all people learn the rules according to which they are expected to behave |
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1.passage of affirmative action legislation
2. desegration of public schools
3. passage of the 13, 14, 15, 24 amendment
4. passage of anti-lynching laws |
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| relaxation of tension between nations similar to the end of the cold war |
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the belief that one’s own culture is superior to all others and is the standard by which all
other cultures should be measured
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| births, deaths, immigrants |
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| wheat production, insurance companies, steal production, iron mining |
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| the first to experience urbanization |
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| under the control of Great Britian in 1914 |
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| imperialism which is where one country conquers land of another |
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merchant and adventurer who traveled from Europe to Asia 1271-1295
first to travel across Asia |
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sailed around the world in 1519-1522
first to sail around the world |
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| the first European to reach India by sea sailing the tip of Africa |
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| states must ratify amendments approved by Congress |
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| of the seats in US House of Reps is up for election every 2yrs |
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| of the seats in the US senate is up for election |
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| slavery abolished in 1865 |
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| citizenship of former slaves part of the constitution |
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unconstitutional to restrict voting based on race
slaves the right to vote |
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1. President
2. VP
3. Speaker of the House of Reps |
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| contour lines are joining equal points of the elevation; shows the shape of earth's surface |
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| (1840) the US was destined by God to expand across North America to the pacific ocean |
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| between Tigris & Euphrates rivers |
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| to protect the chinese from the Huns who were barbarans from Mongolia trying to conquer every area. Huang-di built great wall |
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| a division in society groups of higher power and lower power socially |
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| (1513) sailed and discovered Flordia and claimed it for Spain |
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| (1519) sailed to Mexico and in 1532 crashed the Aztec civilization; conqured south america |
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| (1532) traveled to Peru and conqured the Inca empire |
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The French Penal Colony
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was located off the coast of the French Guyana;
the only french speaking south american nation |
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1. The Tea Act of 1773
2. The Stamp Act
3. Colonist had to house troops |
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| the first tax specially meant to generate money for the British government |
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| forbade colonist from issuing paper money |
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| "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" |
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| Declaration of Independence |
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| between Britian & US alleged British violations of American shipping rights |
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Federick Douglass, William Lloyde Garrison,
Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman,
Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown |
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1.Sherman's march
2. General Lee surrenders
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4. 13th amendment |
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| belongs to the House of Reps; pass federal laws, can overide the president, veto bills by 2/3 vote |
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| president is head and can serve 4 year term twice. |
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| the supreme court which interpret the laws |
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| factors that generate and affect landforms |
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| southernmost continent in the world |
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the process by which a cultural trait, material object,
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| brings buyers and sellers in contact with each other |
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| What nation defeated the Spanish Armada in the 16th century |
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| are names used to describe a series of laws passed by the British Parlimant in 1774 relating to Britian Colonies on North America |
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| was a policy set forth by U.S. President Harry S Truman on March 12, 1947 stating that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent their falling into the Soviet sphere |
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| is a series of economic programs implemented in the United States between 1933 and 1936. They were passed by the U.S. Congress during the first term of Franklin Delano Roosevelt as President of the United States, which lasted from 1933 to 1937. The programs were responses to the Great Depression, and focused on what historians call the "3 Rs": relief, recovery, and reform. |
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| inland sea bounded by Europe, Anatolia and the Caucasus and is ultimately connected to the Atlantic Ocean via the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas and various straits |
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| is the largest enclosed body of water on Earth by area |
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| Emancipation Proclamation |
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| (1862) The proclamation promised freedom for slaves held in any of the Confederate states that did not return to the Union by the end of the year. |
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powers shared by the federal and state governments. These powers include the ability to make laws, roads, defense, parks and enforcement for police, prisons, health, and environment, to name a few.
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are things provided by
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humans, such as minerals, energy, timber,
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are those that can
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are those that
cannot be replenished. These include
fossil fuels such as oil and coal and metal
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was the
protest group headed by Samuel
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On March 5,
1770, soldiers fired on a crowd
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On
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Liberty, dressed as Mohawks,
dumped tea into the harbor from
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| seperates the rivers and streams that flow toward the Pacific Ocean from those that flow toward the Atlantic Ocean |
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exhaust from cars
deforestation of the rain forest
burning of fossil fuels |
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| was a German priest and professor of theology who initiated the Protestant Reformation.He strongly disputed the claim that freedom from God's punishment of sin could be purchased with money. |
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Articles of confederation 1777
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| human perception, thought, memory |
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