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Review for history final

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Earth used to have just one large continent called   Pangea  
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the land bridge that brought humans to the americas was called the   Beringia Strait  
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humans are classified as   homosapiens  
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the two branches of homosapiens are   chromagnon and neandrithals  
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in 1492 _______ came to America   Columbus  
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visited china and came back to Europe to persuade fellow Europeans to trade with china   Marco Polo  
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King Henry VIII started the   Church of England  
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King Henry VIII separated because he   wanted to divorce Cathering of Aragon  
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Queen Elizabeth's cousin   James  
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1st European settlement in America   Jamestown  
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Jamestown was started in   1607  
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1619 firsts for Jamestown   house of burgesses, 1st boatload of women, 1st boatload of African Americans  
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divine right   when a ruler believes that his right and power to rule was from God  
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Southern Colonies   Georgia, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina  
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Middle Colonies   New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Pennsylvania  
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New England Colonies   Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Conneticut, and New Hampshire  
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the French and Indinan War was fought over   land  
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The ___ Indians fought with the British   Iroquois  
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_____ won the French and Indian War   British  
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British have war costs therefore ___   tax colonies  
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three firebrands   Patrick Henry, Samuel Adams, Thomas Paine  
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great orator   Patrick Henry  
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great writer   Thomas Paine  
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rebel rouser   Samuel Adams  
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things that made the colonies mad   Stamp Tax, Tea Tax, and Thomas Paine's "Common Sense"  
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"Shot heard round the world"   Lexington  
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Green Mountain Boys Leader   Ethan Allen  
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three goals of the Declaration of Independence   name natural liberties, tell George what he was doing wrong, declare independence from England  
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first time colonists tried to make peace   Olive Branch Petition  
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author of D. of I.   Thomas Jefferson  
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British Generals   Lord Cornwallis, Billy Howe, Johnny Burgoyne  
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famous French general   Marquis de Lafayette  
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France joined the war after   Saratoga  
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"Father of the Constitution"   James Madison  
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1st president   John Handson  
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first constitution for us   Articles of Confederation  
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youngest Constitutional delegate   James Madison  
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oldest delegate   Benjamin Franklin  
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the southern states signed the constitution only because of the   Bill of Rights  
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presidents 1-7   Washington, Adams, Madison, Monroe, Quincy Adams, Jackson  
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presidents 8-15   Van Buran, Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanen  
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presidents 16-25   Lincoln, Johnson, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, Cleveland, McKinnley  
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compromise for the incoming states   Missouri Compromise of 1820  
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Writer of Uncle Tom's Cabin   Harrient Beecher Stowe  
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trusted black man by Lincoln   Frederick Douglas  
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Lincoln ran against   Stephen Douglass  
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when lincoln was elected, the Southern states ___   seceded  
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1st republican president   Abraham Lincoln  
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triumpherate   Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John C. Calhoun  
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Henry Clay   great compromiser (W)  
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Daniel Webster   great speaker against slaver (N)  
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John C. Calhoun   believed in States Rights (S)  
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confederate general   Robert E. Lee  
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underground railroad conductor   Harriet Tubman  
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Stonewall Jackson died at   Chancellorsville  
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battle fought in North   Gettysburg  
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bloodiest battle of war   Antietam  
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southern "gold"   tobacco  
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constitution ratified   1787  
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capital of the Confederacy and Virginia   Richmond  
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president of the confederacy   Jefferson Davis  
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___ surrendered to Grant   Robert E. Lee  
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Lee surrendered on ___ at ___   April 9, 1865; Appomatix Courthouse  
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13th ammendment   no slavery  
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14th ammendment   equal protection for all  
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15th ammendment   everyone can vote  
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Lincoln shot on   April 14, 1865  
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Lincoln shot by   John Wilkes Booth  
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veto   president's power to reject a bill  
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Freedman's Bureau   an organization formed to help rebuild the South  
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radical   extreme  
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presidential reconstruction   Johnson trying to rebuild south  
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congressional reconstruction   soldiers sent south to help keep peace  
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black codes   laws created to intimidate blacks  
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immigrant   person from a foreign country  
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civil rights laws   laws that said what was fair  
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antebellum   time period after civil war  
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carpetbaggers   people who went south to help  
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Samuel Clemmens   Mark Twain  
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Vanderbilt   railroad business  
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Alexander Graham Bell   transfered sound waves  
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Thomas Edison   light bulb  
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Katy Stantin   Susan B. Anthony's sidekick  
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J.P. Morgan   banker  
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Carnigie   steel business  
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Leland Stanford   transcontinental railroad  
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Ida B. Wells   wrote about black equality  
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Booker T. Washington   said blacks should compete in the white world  
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W.E.B. Dubois   we should not compromise and follow our conscience  
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Jim Crow   made up character used to dehumanize blacks  
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Plecy vs. Furgison   separate but equal  
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Rockafeller   oil business  
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muckrackers   people who exposed wrongs in the U.S.  
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WWI president   Woodrow Wilson  
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pandemic disease   influenza  
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prohibition   no drinking  
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19th ammendment   women can vote  
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Red Scare   U.S. afraid of communist Russia  
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Charlse Lindbergh   first transatlantic flight  
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musical genre purly American   jazz  
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as an american country, what are five things to be ashamed of?   slavery, heroshima/nagasaki, grouping the Taliban with Muslims, use death penalty, and internment camps  
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What makes you proud to be an American?   first democratic government, you can ammend the bill of rights, strive for equality for all, free public education, and we send aid to people in other countries to strive for world peace (e.g. food to Burma victims)  
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women can vote in   1920  
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judge who convicted Susan B. Anthony   Judge Ward Hunt  
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WWI allies   Britian, France, Russia, Japan, and Italy  
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WWI central powers   Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey  
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day after WWI called   Armistice Day  
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Axis powers of WWII   Japan, Italy, and Germany  
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WWII allies   United States, England, and Soviet Russia  
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Pearl Harbor date   December 7, 1941  
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D-Day Date   June 6, 1944  
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one of first reformers of early Catholic church   Martin Luther, 95 thesis, protestants  
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Magna Carta   treaty between kings and lourdes, 1215, after Big Schism  
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king during Revolutionary War   King George  
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who said "in the name of great Jahova" and then attacked Ticonderoga   Ethan Allen  
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3 branches of government   legislative, judicial, and executive  
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debates over representation solved with the   Conneticut Compromise  
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did farming increase or decrease in US history   decrease  
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Moby Dick by   Herman Melville  
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On Walden Pond   Henry David Thoreau  
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Lousana Purchase   1803, Thomas Jefferson  
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Dred Scott case results said   "slaves are property" and it led to the fugitive slave law  
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