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Social Studies1415
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| President of the United States | Obama |
| Vice President of the United States | Joe Biden |
| Governor of NY | Andrew Cuomo |
| New York State Senators | 1. Kirsten Gillibrand 2. Chuck Schumer |
| Town Supervisor of Colonie | Paula Mahan |
| Mitt Romney | Republician nominee running for presidential election of 2012 |
| Site of the 2012 Summer Olympics | London, England |
| Why do we have 24 different time zones? | Because of the sun and it's rotation |
| Pre | Before |
| Post | After |
| Mexico | Spain |
| Brazil | Portugal |
| Florida | Spain |
| South America(Except Brazil) | Spain |
| Quebec,Canada | France |
| New York | The Netherland |
| Central America | Spain |
| 13 Colonies | Britian(England) |
| Louisiana Territory | France(French) |
| Present day New Mexico,CA,AZ | Spain(spanish) |
| What was the Middle Passage? | Slave trade ship |
| John C. Calhoun | He supported a strong central government and spoke out against sectionism |
| Henry Clay | Secretary of state and help Andrew Jackson to become president |
| What is a reformer? | a person who tries to improve conditions |
| Abolitionist | a person who tried to end slavery |
| Suffragettes | Women who fought for the right to vote |
| What was the Underground Railroad? | a secret passage for slaves |
| Annex | To take land in |
| 1800-1825 | The Jefferson Era |
| President who purchased Louisiana for France | Thomas Jefferson |
| To seize by force/kidnap | Impressment |
| President during the War of 1812 | James Madison |
| City badly burned by the British during the War of 1812 | Washington,D.C. |
| A bold warning to the Europeans to stay out of the Americas | `Monroe Doctrine |
| City where the final battle of the War of 1812 was fought | New Orleans |
| To stop trading with other countries | embargo |
| City where Lewis and Clark began their journey | St. Louis,Missouri |
| Francis Scott Key wrote the Star Spangled Banner near here | Fort McHenry |
| John Deere | intvented the steel plow |
| Robert Fulton | invented the steamboat |
| Peter Cooper | invented the first steam powered locomotive called Tom Tumb |
| Samuel Slater | invented the first successful water-powered textile mill in America |
| Francis Lowell | built a fatory in waltham, eastern Massachusetts |
| 1789-1800 | Federalist Era |
| 1803-1853 | Expansion |
| What continent did the first people migrate from? | Asia |
| What do we call a scientist who studies the human past by examining artifacts? | Archeologist |
| Matrineal | when ancestry came from the mom |
| Patrineal | when ancestry came from the dad |
| First successful English colony | Jamestown |
| The orginal name of Albany, New York | Fort Orange |
| The orginal name of New York | New Netherland |
| First English attempt to colonize. It failed | Roanoke |
| First representative government in the Americas | House of Burgesses |
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