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| Term | Definition |
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| Suez Canal | |
| Suez Canal | waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez and dividing Africa and Asia. * part of the Silk Road that connects Europe with Asia. |
| Panama Canal | waterway that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean. The Panama Canal shortcut greatly reduces the time for ships to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. |
| Erie Canal | Connected the great lakes system to the Hudson River, gave the western states direct access to the Atlantic Ocean without shipping goods downstream on the Mississippi to New Orleans. |
| Battle of San Jacinto | historically significant because a small Texan military force defeated a larger and more experienced Mexican army which resulted in the ultimate independence of Texas from Mexico. |
| Battle of Gonzalez | The first military engagement of the Texas Revolution. |
| Battle of Palmito Ranch | The final battle of the American Civil War in Texas. |
| American Revolution | the war between 13 colonies and the British Empire took place in a colony which was an ocean away from its ruling monarchy in Britain |
| French Revolution | was the war between the people and the government took place itself (directly threatened the French monarchy) within France. |
| Iran | bordered by Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and Turkey. The Caspian Sea borders in the north, and the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman are to its south. Borders are mostly made from mountains and geographic aspects. |
| Green Revolution | a large increase in crop production in developing countries achieved by use of fertilizers, pesticides, and high-yield crop varieties. By the 1990s 75% of Asian rice production was of Green Revolution varieties least affected in Africa at 27%. |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | ended the Mexican American War in favor of the United States. It gave U.S the Rio Grande as a boundary for Texas and U.S. ownership of California, large area comprising roughly of New Mexico, most of Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Colorado |
| Virginia House of Burgess | first general assembly of the commonwealth when the United States declared its independence from England in 1776. |
| Charlamagne | gave money and land to the Christian church and protected the popes. he was responsible for uniting most of Europe under his rule by power of the sword, first emperor of the Western Roman Empire, and facilitated a cultural and intellectual renaissance |
| Latent Function | Unintended and unrecognized consequences of some element of society. a doctor treating a patient suffering from a certain kind of incurable disease somehow saves the patient, thus discovering a new method of treating that disease. |
| British Pound Depreciates against the U.S. Dollar | British consumers lose by an increase in the pound price of U.S exports to Britain |
| Spread of Malaria | Virginia |
| Reasons for the Fall of the Roman Empire | Invasions by Barbarian tribes, economic troubles, overreliance on slave labor, overexpansion and military spending, government corruption and political instability |
| Result of Brown v. Board of Education | Schools were integrated; separate but NOT equal; school segregation ends |
| Camp David Accords | agreements between Israel and Egypt that led to a peace treaty between the two nations in 1979. the result of negotiations in the United States between Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, and U.S. President Jimmy Carter. |
| Equilibrium Price | is the point where the cost of a product and the demand for that product intersect, creating a price compromise. At the equilibrium price, there is a balance between customers purchasing the product and companies supplying the product |
| Globalization | businesses or other organizations develop international influence or operating on an international scale. Growing interdependence of the world’s economies, cultures and populations brought about by cross-border trade in goods and services, technology |
| Disadvantage of Sole Proprietorship | Unlimited responsibility for all losses and debts. Every asset of the business is owned by the proprietary and all debts of the business and the proprietor’s it is sole proprietorship n contract with partnerships |
| Boston Massacre | British soldiers occupied the city of 16,000 colonists and tried to enforce Britain’s tax laws, American colonists rebelled against the taxes they found repressive, rallying around the cry, “no taxation without representation. |
| Monetary Policy | Federal Reserve's policy on the economy; focuses on inflation; changes interest rates |
| Fiscal Policy | Government's policy on the economy; taxation, government spending to influence economy |
| What did the Constitution take from Magna Carta | Due Process; Taxation with representation; trial by jury; citizen is entitled to protection of the law; leader must obey laws and does not have absolute authority |
| Andrew Carnegie | led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century; he believed in donating money to services like libraries the help the poor. He called this the Gospel of Wealth Carnegie believed in Social Darwinism; support laissez faire |
| Ottoman Empire | Controlled all major Trade routes from Europe to India and China during its reign |
| Comanche | native tribe that immediately took advantage of horses |
| Emancipation Proclamation | emancipating all slaves in states still engaged in rebellion against the Union. Although implementation was strictly beyond Lincoln's powers, the declaration turned the war into a crusade against slavery. |
| 4th Amendment | unreasonable searches and seizures. sets requirements for issuing warrants: must be issued by a judge or magistrate, justified by probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and must particularly describe the place to be searched |
| 13th Amendment | abolished slavery in the United States |
| 14th Amendment | guaranteeing members of all races "due process of law," which requires the legal system to provide fundamentally fair trial procedures, and "equal protection of the laws," which requires the government to treat all persons with equal concern and respect. |
| 15th Amendment | the voting rights of African American men. |
| 16th Amendment | allows for the collection of income taxes for all citizens by the federal government. |
| 17th Amendment | established the direct election of United States senators in each state. Alters the procedure for filling vacancies in the Senate, state legislatures permit their governors to make temporary appointments until special election.Greater public participation |
| 19th Amendment | The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied by any State on account of sex. |
| 24th Amendment | Eliminated poll taxes (kept blacks from voting) |
| 26th Amendment | 18 to vote |
| Multiple Intelligences | proposes the differentiation of human intelligence into specific “modalities of intelligence”, rather than defining intelligence as a single, general ability. criticized by mainstream psychology for its lack of evidence and dependence on judgement |
| Maslow | Self-Actualization (highest) *Esteem* Love/Belonging* Safety* Physiological (SELSP); Self-actualization is the final state in the linear growth of an individual |
| Pavlov | dogs do not learn to salivate whenever they see food. This reflex is 'hard-wired' into the dog. In behaviorist terms, food is an unconditioned stimulus and salivation is an unconditioned response. Conditional training |
| Freud | The conscious mind includes all the things we are aware of or can easily bring into awareness. childhood have a great influence on our adult lives, shaping our personality. The subconscious to hold repressed experiences and feelings that drove behavior |
| Erikson | He proposed that humans are motivated to achieve competence in various areas of life. Erikson explained in his theory how our personalities are influenced by the social experiences we gain throughout our lives. |
| Gardner | Personality learning theory (Multiple Intelligences); most impact on the education field. people are not born with all the intelligence they will ever have. Challenged notion that there is one single cognitive intelligence, known as “g” for general intel. |
| W.A.S.P. (Women Air Force Service Pilots) | women to be Air Force pilots. This was a selected group of women pilots participate in flying military aircraft. Dur to the absence of male pilots led to the WASP. |
| Texas railroads | cattle being able to reach other areas instead of just local; opened commerce nationwide. lowered the cost of transporting many goods across great distances. links increased the growth of cities. Helped to build an industrial economy on a national scale |
| Texas Railroads After the Civil War | the state of Texas gave out millions of acres in land grants to the railroads. The land grants consisted of 16 sections of 640 acres each on every mile of completed road. In addition, a 200-foot right-of-way was granted on either side of the track. |
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