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SOCAIL STUDIIES 1
SOCAIL STUDIOES 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Atlas map | physical |
| Political map | countries and states |
| Primary source | eye witness |
| Secondary source | wrote about it, not eye witness |
| Earth | 4.3 Billion years |
| Humans | 50,000 years |
| Earth for 24 hours humans? | 3 seconds |
| Tools/handy man | Homo habilis |
| Upright | Homo Erectus |
| Wise man | Homo sapien |
| Think about our thinking | Homo Sapien Sapien |
| cro magnon | Survived- From africa |
| neanderthal | did not? Europe |
| Naitive Ameircans came from | CAme from Asia from Bering Strait (near Alaska) |
| Naitive Americans similaritieswith Asains | Extra Skin on eye (ice) Height (shorter/less energy) Skin Tone Dark Silky Hair Mongloid spot |
| Vikings | Greenland/Iceland |
| Greenland | Nasty |
| Iceland (Leif Erickson) | Nice |
| Who thought Africans could be the first Americans? (pyramids) | Thor Heyerdahl |
| Voyage to prove it | 1970 from Africa to Barbados (Carisbbian) |
| Not always | good/bad people/guys |
| 1492? | Columbus sailed the ocean blue |
| WHy did he sail | Tried to find short cut to Asia |
| Accidentally bumped into | The Americas |
| Magellan | First to sail around the world (not his head) stil gets credit |
| Columbus day | Italian Excellance day/ indigenous peoples day |
| Henry Hudson | 1609- Northwest Passage to Asia |
| What happened to Henry and his son | Henry and his son probably froze to death |
| Canada | France and England |
| America | England |
| Central America/South America | Spanish/Portuguese (Pope's Line of DEMARCATION) |
| Cultural Diversity | Lots of culters in a place |
| Cultural Diffusion | Mix Cultures (Veitnames food) |
| Why Colonization? (take land/fighting) | Gold/reasouces Glory/fame and God/religion |
| 1607 | James Town Virginia |
| How did James Town live | Tobacco Farming. At first starved untill John Rolfe came in 1610 |
| 1620 | Plymouth Massachusetts, started by Pilgrams Mayflower Compact (ship) |
| Pilgrams were a step to | Self Government (Democracy not Monarcy) |
| Why did Colonists protest | Taxation without representation (can't vote, no say) more freedom and profits |
| Declaration Of Independence | July,4,1776- Thomas Jefferson (and 4 others) |
| What did the Declaration Of Independence state | Reasons why they wanted to break away |
| Convince Americans to be patriots by | Pamphlet- "Commen Sense" By Thomas Paine |
| Revolutionary war | 1775-1783 |
| Americans won..why? | Guerilla warfare (little war), the not proper way to fight and at home |
| America got help from what country | France |
| George Washington wanted the U.S to what | Practice Nuetrality & avoid foriegn conflict |
| What is a Constitution | A document that sets up your Government |
| 1st Constitution for America | Articles of Confederation |
| Articles of Confederation was | All bark no bite b/c no executive branch to enforce laws- they didn't want a strong gov. No taxes thats how a gov. pays for things |
| What couldnt we pay for b/c the Articles of Confederan | Army/Currency |
| 13 states had ________ than the Federal | more power so we trashed the Articles of Confederation |
| !787 we wrote | U.S Constitution still used today |
| Got ideas from Euroopean Enlightenment | Natural rights = Life Libery and Poperty/persuit of Happieness |
| Republic | people elect reps. to speak/vote for them |
| Branches of the gov. | Executative, Legislative, Judicail |
| Executive? | President, enforces laws |
| Legislative? | Makes laws, Congress |
| Judicail | Surpreme Court, declares if laws are unconstitutional |
| Executive over Legislation | veto Legislatation |
| Legislative over Executive | Makes Law and Allocates funds (can overide veto) |
| Legislative over Judicail | confirms Judicail Appointments |
| Judicail over Executive | Rules on Executive Action |
| Executive over Judicail | Appoints Justices |
| Judicail over Legislative | Declare laws unconstitutional/Rules on Legislation |
| Last war declared | World War 2 (other wars were fought but not offically declare) |
| 10 Amendments added for what reason | Some States wouldn't ratify the COnstitution unless these ten rights we included- "GUARANTEE OUR LIBERTY" |
| The U.S Constitution is the s- | is the Surpreme Law of the Liberty |
| 1st Amendment | Freedom of speech, press, assembly, religion, petition |
| 2nd Amendment | Thge right to bear arms and have a militia |
| 3rd Amendment | No quarting of troups in our homes |
| 4th Amendment | Police need a search warrent (search warrent beFOUR you can search my house) |
| 5th Amendment | No-self Incrimination: DONT HAVE TO TALK "I PLEAD THE 5TH" |
| 6th Amendment | Speedy Trail |
| 7th Amendment | Trail by Jury (peer) |
| 8th Amendment | Noi cruel or unusaul punishments |
| 9th Amendment | Rights not here are still Rights |
| 10th Amendment | Powers are the given to the FEDERAL GOV. are reeserved for the State gov. for the People |
| Northeast | High Population, more trains, businesses |
| Midwest | Lumber/timber industry and farms w/o slaves- less population = more self sustaining |
| West | Gold Rudh (1849) Less population = more self sustaining!! Often no Sheriff or Police |
| South | Huge plantations w/ enslaved people. cash crop is cotton & tobacco |
| More gov. interventions in | Urban areas |
| Less gov. interventions in | Rural areas |
| Louisiana Purchase | From France (1803) |
| The problem with the Louisiana Purchase | Doubled our size, there was conflict about whether is we should allow slavery in the new land or not |
| Temporary solution for the debate about slavery | Compromise of 1820 and 1850, between North and South over where slavery should spread |
| New Orleans became an important city, why? | For traval b/c the Mississippi River |
| 1861-1865 | The Cival War was fought over slavery and State's Rights |
| The first Woman's Rights convention in the U.S | Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 in NY |
| Seneca Falls Convention was organized by | Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Abolitionists (wanna get rid of slavery) |
| Goal of the Seneca Falls Convention | All men and woman to be created equal |
| Goal of the Seneca Falls Convention more specifically | Womans sufferage (right to vote) |
| Susan B. AAnthony & Lucretia Mott are examples of | Sufffragettes |
| The convention wasn't just woman but | men, including Aferican American ex-slaves and abolitionists, Fredrick Douglass |
| Three ways African Americans and woman were not given equal rights in 1800 | No vote (jobs were hard to get, education) Couldn;t own land, couldn't ownmn bisuiness |
| Pres. James Monroe Doctrrine of 1823 | "Eurpoe stay out of Latin America and the Caribbean Islands! Thats the U.S.A's 'Turf' you get the East side of the Globe! We get the west!" |
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