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SOCAIL STUDIIES 1
SOCAIL STUDIOES 1
Question | Answer |
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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!" |