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| In what year did Columbus discover America? |
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| What group was Martin Luther mad at? |
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| Name a native American group that had a writing system? |
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| What was the Treaty of Tordessillas? |
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| Spain and Portugal, who were both rapidly claiming land, wet to the pope to have him make a treaty for them. In it, Spain got south and north America, and Portugaa got Africa and the tip of Brazil. |
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| What does migration mean? |
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| Humans moving from place to place. |
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| What does archeology mean? |
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| The study of human history BEFORE written records. |
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| Name two Native American groups we studied that live in what is today Mexico? |
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| The Maya and the Aztec. and the Inca. |
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| What was the Columbian Exchange? |
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| The columbian exchange was the exchange of things between Europe and North and South America for the first time. |
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| List the first three colonies set up by the English in America, in order? |
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1. Roanoke -
2. Jamestown
3. Plymouth. |
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| How many colonies did the English set up that became the original states? |
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| Why did we study the Protestant Reformation? what difference did it make to American history? |
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| Some of the religions formed by the Protestant Reformation founded colonies in America. |
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| What was the Mayflower Compact? |
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| The Mayflower Compact was a document of law written by the colonist coming to America to form Plymouth. It was the first time colonists made their own rules. |
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| What does the word economic mean? |
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| Having to do with money $$ |
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| What was the Proclamation of 1763? |
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| Said that colonists couldn't settle west of the Appalachain mountains, to leave that land for their native american allies in the French and Indian War. |
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| How many planes were involved in the attacks of 9-11? |
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| In what year did the US revolution begin and when did it end? |
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| What was the goal of Common Sense? |
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| A pamphlet trying to get the colonists to revolt. |
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| Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? |
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| What law or act from England made the colonists mad because it took away the power of the assembly to NOt pay the governor if they were mad at him? |
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| Who was president when the attacks of 9-11 happened? |
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| How was John Adams involved in the Boston Massacre? |
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| He was the lawyer for the British soldiers from the Boston Massacre. |
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| List three parts of the Intolerable Acts. |
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1. Boston harbor closed until tea was paid for.
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3. new governor of Massachusetts |
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| Why didn't Georgia send anyone to the first Continental Congress? |
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| The British soldiers were fighting native americans away from Georgia and Georgia didn't want to make them stop. |
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| Explain the Navigation Acts. |
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| Said the colonists could only sell to England and could only buy from England. |
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| Who started the Protestant Refromation? |
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| What was the 2nd amendment to the US Constitution? |
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| The right to own guns in order to form a "organized militia" |
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| How long was the original charter for the Bank of the United States of America? |
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| Name a person we studied who was a federalist. |
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| What does the name of the XYZ affair refer to? |
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| X,Y, and Z were what John Adams called the French agents. |
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| What event that happened in 1786 showed how weak the Articles of Confederation were? |
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| What are the three branches of government? |
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Executive-(president)
Legislative-(congress)
Judicial-(Supreme Court) |
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| What was the Great Compromise? |
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| The Great Compromise split Congress into to parts( the House of Representitives, in which the population of a state determines how many people go to Congress, and the Senate, in which each state sends two people to Congress |
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| What part of the Constitution says that Congress can make all laws that are "necessary and proper" for carring out its duties called? |
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| Explain the Three-Fifths Compromise? |
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| Every Five slaves would count as three people in terms of counting how many people get to go to the House of Representitives |
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| What Battle was the turning point of the US Revelution? |
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| What was the first fighting of the US Revelution called? |
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| Battle of Lexington Green |
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| What was the last battle of the US Revolution called? |
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| Why was Jay's treaty not satisfing? |
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| it said England couldnt attack our small ships, but big ships were fair game. |
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| Who was Justice of the Supreme Court in Marbury v. Madison? |
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| When the Supreme Court looks over a law and destroys it for being unconstitutional called? |
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| What was John Rolfe the first to do? |
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| Farm tabaco in Jamestown. |
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| What year was the Louisiana Purchase made? |
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| How were the Alien and Sedition Acts unconstitutional? |
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| The Sedition part made it illegal to insult the President or his Party; this went against freedom of speech, freedom of protest, and freedom of press. |
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| Who was the father of communism? |
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| What is one major difference between capitalism and communism? |
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| Capitalism has regular people owning businesses; communism has government owning businesses. |
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| What are the years of WWI? |
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| What event started WWI in Europe? |
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| The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. He was archduke of Austria-Hungary and he was assassinated in Sarajevo. |
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| America's Cold War alliance. |
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| What was stock speculating? |
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| It was borrowing money to buy stocks. |
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| What did Henry Ford do to increase the production rate of his cars? |
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| Conveyor belt/assembly line. |
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| Who initiated the New Deal? |
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| Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
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| Name a Progressive Era amendment to the US Constitution. |
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| Being rude or unfair to Jewish people for no reason but the fact that they are Jewish. |
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| Who was the leader of the Nazi Party in Germany? |
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| A gangster who made and sold alcohol during Prohibition. |
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| Where companies are owned by regular people and compete for service. |
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| Describe Lincoln's 10% plan |
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| 10% of the rich white guys had to take loyalty oaths |
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| How do trusts and monopolies affect competition? |
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| They destroy it because in trusts, all companies raise prices and lower quality, and in monopolies, there is only one company. |
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| Fat cat industrialist who sold steel. |
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| In what war did Teddy Roosevelt become a war hero? |
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| Time period when alcohol was illegal. |
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| What country was most blamed for WWI? |
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| Invented the cotton gin. An engine. |
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| Who was the general for the north during the Civil War? |
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| Name the newspaper published by Benjamin Franklin |
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| Who was William Randolph Hearst? |
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| powerful rich guy. Pushed US into Spanish-American War. Publisher. |
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| Who started the National Parks Service? |
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| During the Cold War, Russia had a clubhouse of friendly countries called ________. |
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| During the Cold War, America had a clubhouse of friendly countries called _______. |
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