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| Which amendments make the bill of rights? | Amendments 1-10
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| What amendment is freedom of speech, religion, press, assemble, petition | 1st Amendment
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| What amendment is right to bear arms | 2nd Amendment
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| What amendment is freedom fro quartering troops | 3rd Amendment
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| What amendment is freedom from search and seizure | 4th Amendment
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| What amendment is right to grand jury, double jeopardy, right to due process | 5th Amendment
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| What amendment is right to trail by jury, confront accuser | 6th Amendment
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| What amendment is right to jury trail in civil cases | 7th Amendment
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| What amendment prohibits excess bail and cruel and unusual punishment. | 8th Amendment
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| What amendment give non-enumerated rights are retained by the people | 9th Amendment
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| What amendment says powers not specifically given to the US are retained by the states and the people | 10th Amendment
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| What amendment limits power of national govt. in suits against states | 11th Amendment
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| What amendment revised electoral college procedure for election of Vp and President | 12th Amendment
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| What amendment outlawed Slavery | 13th Amendment
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| What amendment says ex-slaves are citizens, due process to states | 14th Amendment
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| What amendment says right to vote cannot be denied or abridged on basis of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. | 15th Amendment
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| What amendment authorized federal income tax | 16th Amendment
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| What amendment provided direct election of US senators | 17th Amendment
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| What amendment prohibited the manufacture or sale of liquor in US | 18th Amendment
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| What amendment addressed women's suffrage | 19th Amendment
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| What amendment was called the lame duck. Created emergency president succession plan | 20th Amendment
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| What amendment repealed to end prohibition | 21st Amendment
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| What amendment limit presidents to 2 terms | 22nd Amendment
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| What amendment gives DC citizens right to vote | 23rd Amendment
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| What amendment prohibits poll taxes for federeal elections | 24th Amendment
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| What amendment revised the pres. disability and successsion process | 25th Amendment
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| What amendment lowered voting to 18 | 26th Amendment
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| What amendment delayed the effect of congressional pay raises | 27th Amendment
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| What caused US to enter WW1 | Germany declares submarine warfare against armed vessels
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| What was the name of the British ship sunk by the Germans killing 1200 people | Lusitania
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| What stated WWI | assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand
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| What was the Zimmerman Telegram | telegram from German Foreign Minister to the German Minister of Mexico, offering US territory to Mexico for joining the german cause
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| Who was Coronado | First European to explore teh southwest. Searched for the city of gold. first to visit the grand canyon
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| Who was Cortes | Over threw the aztec empires and claimed montezuma for spain
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| Who was de Soto | First spanish explorer to sail the atlantic and the first european to explore florida, and mississippi river
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| Who was John Cabot | First english explorer to lay claim to north america
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| Who was Sir Francis Drake | Mayor of Plymouth, second in command of the english fleet
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| Who was John Smith | Founder and leader of Jamestown
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| Who was Henry Hudson | Explored Arctic ocean. hired to find North west passage
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| Who was Sir Walter Raleigh | First english settlement attempt at roanoke island
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| Who is Jacques Cartier | French explorer to canada
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| Who is Samuel de Champlain | French explorer who mapped much of the north america. Father of new france
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| Who is Sieur de la Salle | First European to travel the entire mississippi river
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| Who is Christopher Columbus | First European to sail across the Atlantic for spain. discovered america
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| Who is Amerigo Vespucci | Italian explorer sailed from portugal. First person to realize americas were separate from asia
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| Who was Giovanni da Verrazano | Italian explored the atlantic coast of north america
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| Who is James Madison | author of the bill of rights
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| Who was Alexander Hamilton | felt that the bill of rights might limit unspoken rights
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| Who was George Madison | Wrote the virginia bill of rights
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| Who was John Locke | known for a stance proposing that all men were fee and equal. comments used in presenting the bill of rights to congress
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| Who was Vasco Balboa | crossed isthmus of panama and discovered the pacific ocean
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| Who was Ferdinand Magellan | sailed on a 3 year voyage around the world
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| Who was Francisco Pizarro | overtook the inca in peru
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| Who was da gama | sailed around africa to india
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| What was the Columbian Exchange | plants, animals, foods, people between N&S hemispheres. brought diseases
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| What were pre-colonial civilizations | Indigenous populations existing in americas prior to spanish and english explorers
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| Who were the inca | peru empire flourished around 1200 to 1530
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| Who were the aztecs | modern nation of mexico.
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| Who were the adena and hopewell | located in ohio and mississippi valley.
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| Who were the mayans | developed heiroglyphic writing and a calendar.southern mexico/ yucatan
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| What is the Beringia | submerged area under the bering sea that is thought to have been the land bridge between asia and north america
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| what region did the Nez Perce live | Oregon, Washington, and Idaho
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| what region did the pawnee live | Nebraska
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| who were the Paleo indians | first settlers of the americas
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| What was the iroquois | confederation of tribe known as the six nations. located in new york
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| What region did the Cherokee live | southeast, north and south carolina, georgia, alabama, tennessee
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| What is Anasazi | north american culture centered around chaco canyon and included complex roads and irrigation systems
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| What was the agricultural revolution | shift from hunting and gathering to cultivating basic food crops
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| What ist the eastern woodland cultures | indian groups that switched between agrarian communities and hunter gatherer family groups seasonally
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| Who founded Quebec | Samuel de Champlain
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| What were the early dutch colonies | NY, NJ, CT, DE, and PA
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| What were the early english colonies | settled for religious freedom, commerce, and trade, eventually grew into 13 distinct territories
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| Who was Richard Hakluyt | author of Voyages
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| What was Jamestown | first permanent english settlement in north america
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| What was the virginia company | english stock company. responisible for establishing the jamestown settlement
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| What is the protestant reformation | 16th century religious movement to reform and challenge the authority of the roman catholic church
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| What was the Massachusetts Bay Colony | english settlement centered around salem and boston.
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| What is plymouth | landing site of the mayflower
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| Who were the puritans | members of a reformed protestean sect that insisted on removing all catholicism
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| What was the mayflower compact | the first governing document of the plymouth colony.
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| What was the great Migration | voluntary migration of poor europeans to the americas
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| Who founded Maryland | George Calvert. a haven for englands persecuted catholics
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| Who was william penn | founded pennsylvania, for a refuge of english quakers
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| What is the headright system | system of land distrbution through which settlers were granted 50 acres for each person who transferred to the new world
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| Who were the Conquistadores | Spanish adventureers. subdued the native americans and created a spanish empire in the new world
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| What is the encomienda system | labor system that rewarded xonquistadores in the new world by garnting them local villages and control over the natives
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| What is the treaty of tordesillas | treaty to resolve land claims of spain and portugal. divided the world along a north-south line. Portugal got brazil, spain everything else
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| What is requerimiento | document threatening to enslave native americans if spanish demands were not met
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| What was the seven year war | french and indian war
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| What was the proclamation of 1763 | attempted to restrain americans from moving onto indian land west of the appalachian mountians
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| What was the sugar act | also known as the revenue act. placed new burdens on the navigation acts.
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| What was the stamp act | required an offical stamp on all documents. John Adams stated "The pot is set to boil"
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| What are the townsend duties | duties placed on american imports of paper, glass, paint and tea. Created by Charles townsend
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| What were the coercive acts | also known as the intolerable acts. closed ports of boston, quartered troops in private residences, limited town meetings
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| What were the intolerable acts | boston act, massachusetts act, quartering act, and the impartial adimistration of justice act
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| What was the tea act | allowed the east india company to sell directly to the colonies.
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| What was the quebec act | enlarged the boundaries of the french/catholic province
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| who were the sons of liberty | secret organization of american patriots
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| What was the boston massacure | confrontation between british troops and boston mob. five people killed when shot fired into the crowd
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| What were the navigation acts | series of laws which restricted the use of foreign shiiping for trade between england and the colonies
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| What was the quartering act | required the providing of qfuarters for british soldiers
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| What was the "shot heard round the world" | impact of the battle at old north bridge in concord. Start of the revolutionary war
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| First continental congress | representatives from each colony except georgia, to compose a statement of colonial rights
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| Second continental congress | established the continental army, elected george washington as commander in chief of said army
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| Articles of confederation | the first govening constitution of the united states.
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| What was the treaty of Paris | gave the united states control of cuba, philippines, puerto rico, and guam
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| What was the battle of bunker hill | also known as battle of breed's hill. colonials held position until they ran out of ammunition.
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| Who was Paul Revere | boston silversmith, who sounding the alarm that the british were coming
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| who was James Madison | 4th president
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| Who ws James Monroe | 5th president
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| What was the Missouri compromise | missouri was declared a slave state
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| What was the monroe doctrine | declaring US opposition to european interference in the americas.
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| What is the black legend | spaniards oppression of native americans
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| Who is Benjamin Franklin | one of the founding fathers, inventor, helped draft the declaration of indepence
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| Who was George Washington | 1st president, determined presidential role and term limits, commanded the army
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| Who was John Adams | 2nd President, first VP,
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| Who was Samuel Adams | proposed meeting of continental congress and signed the delcaration in 1776
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| What is Jeffersonianism | notions that people are self-sufficient and survive and thrive because of their own choices
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| What was the Louisiana Purchase | purchased land from the gulf of mexico to the rocky mountains and canada from france
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| Who was Thomas Jefferson | 3rd president. involved in the louisiana purchase. commissioned Lewis and clark
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| Who was Andrew Jackson | 7th president. responsible for the trail of tears and indian removal act
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| What was the trail of tears | forced relocation of native americans to oklahoma
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| What was the indian removal act | authorized the president to negotiate treaties to purchase tribal lands in the east for land further west
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| Abramham Lincoln | 16th president. president during the civil war. freed slaves. wrote the emancipation proclamation. famous gettyburg address
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| What was the emancipation proclamation | freed slaves in territories not already under union control
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| Who was Theodore Roosevelt | 26th president. author of square deal,
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| What was the square deal | aimed at helping middle class citizens
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| What was the spanish/American war | conflict between spain and the us over the liberation of cuba
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| What is the panama canal | water way across colombia
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| Who was Woodrow Wilson | 28th president, during WWI and the league of nations
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| What was the fourteen points | intended to assure the country that WWI was being fought for a moral cause
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| What was the league of nations | established by the poeace treaties that ended WWI
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| Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt | 32nd president. only president to serve more than two terms. author of the new deal. author of the alphabet agencies. president during WWII
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| Who passed the Agricultural adjustment act | Franklin D Roosevelt
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| Who passed the Tennessee Valley authority | Franklin D roosevelt
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| Who helped establish the FDIC | Franklin D Roosevelt
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| What was the new deal | programs to help to the unempolyed during the great depression
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| Who was Harry S. Truman | 33rd president. atom bomb, and desegregation of the military. called for foundation of Nato
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| Where was the first atomic bomb dropped | Hiroshima
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| Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower | 34th president, added Hawaii and Alaska as states. General during WWII
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| John F. Kennedy | 35th president. assassinated in 1963. challenged congress to put man on moon. headed civil rights movement. vietnam
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| Bay of pigs invasion | plan to overthrow fidel castro of cuba
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| Who was Lyndon B. Johnson | 36th president. vietnam led to his personal destruction. author of great society.
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| What was the great society | aid for education, medicare, conservation, development of depressed regions, removal of obstacles to the right to vote
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| Who was Richard Nixon | 37th president. watergate. deplomatic openings with china
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| Who was Henry Kissinger | involved in the watergate scandal
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| Who was Ronald Reagan | 40th president. author of reagonomics. hastened end of cold war. berlin came down
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| Who were the federalists | supporters of the constitution who advocated it's ratification.
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| Election of 1828 | Jackson vs. Clay. first election truly fought on modern party lines
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| What was the Treaty of Guadalupe | treaty ending the mexican/american war
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| Who was Andrew Jackson | 7th president.
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| Who was Horace Mann | Spokesman for the common public school movement and education reform
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| Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe | author of Uncle tom's cabin
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| What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act | introduced to bring labor to the colony. Every person who paid their way to VA was granted 50 acres of land.
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| What was the compromise of 1850 | admitted California as a free state. strengthened the fugitive slave act.
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| What was the fugitive slave act | law denying fugitives a trial by jury, right to testify, and minimal constitutional rights. No safe guards against kidnapping free blacks
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| What was the Dred Scott case | slaves could not be citizens. a slave in a free state trying to gain his freedom.
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| What did the election of 1860 cause | set the stage the civil war, with Lincoln being elected president
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| what was the emancipation proclamation | lincoln proclaims that slaves of the confederacy are free. this made clear that abolishment of slavery was an explicit war aim of the north
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| Define the Manifest destiny | expressed the belief that the US had a mission to expand, spreading its form of democracy and freedom
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| What was the case of Plessy v. Ferguson about | plessy was jailed for sitting in the "white" car of the east louisiana railroad
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| What was "bleeding Kansas | a bloody conflict over kansas becoming a proslavery or antislavery state
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| The war with mexico in 1845 | began because the US annexation of Texas
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| What was the prohibition of 1919 | amendment passed prohibiting the manufacturing, slaes , and transportation of alcohol in the US
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| What was the revenue act | reducted inheritance and personal income tax
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| Where did the immigrants come from in the industrial revolution | Europe
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| What was black Thursday | stock market drops 1/2 of value in a single day
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| who was father coughlin | priest who proposed crank schemes of monetrary inflation
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| Who was Frances Townsend | physician who proposed pension plan for those over 60
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| Who was Hideki Tojo | premier of Japaneses military during WWII
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| Who wrote the "Crisis" and what was it about | W.E.B. De Bois. encourage soldiers to fight for domacracy
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| Who was Rovert Oppenheimer | created teh first atomic bomb
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| When was D day | 1944, June 6
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| Who was Winston Churchhill | prime minister and leader for britain in WWII
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| Who was Charles De Gaulle | president and leader for the french in WWII
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| Who was Stalin | leader of the soviet union during WWIIq
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| Describe a political map | boundaries, divisions, and captials
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| Describe a relief map | plains, mountains, rivers, deserts and plateaus
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| Describe a topographical map | natural and manmade features, realative position, and elevation
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| Describe a road map | direction, highways, cities, and interstates
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| What is the 38th parallel | dividing line between north and south korea
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| Who was Rosa Park | refuse to give up set on bus for a white woman
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| What is a climate map | showing the climates for particular areas
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| What is a physical map | uses colors, lines, symbols, tints, and shading to show physical characteristics
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| Who is Gerarde Mercator | created first projection map in 16th century.
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| What is a Mercator map | cylindrical map projection into a rectangular map.
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| What are conic projections | crdated in 20th century, superimposed a cone on globe, preserves shape and relationship
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| What is cylindrical projection | any projection in which meridians are mapped to equally spaced vertical lines and latitudes are mapped to horizontal lines
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| Desert | water is a limiting factor. less in 10 in annually.
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| subtropical | areas immediately north and south of the tropic zones.
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| grassland | climatic zone between forest and desert. seasonal drought, periodic fires, grasses precominant vegetation.
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| Savannah | Alternate rainy seasons with periods of drought, periodic fires, flowering trees, predominant herbivores are insects
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| Tundra | cold temps, permafrost, no trees/tall plants, shrubby vegetation with roots that don't penetrate subsoil.
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| Tropical forest | along the equator, variable rainfall, only two seasons, wet and dry.
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| Artic | cold, long winters, very short mild season, snow all year
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| highlands | long, cold winters short, cool summers, dry air, mountains
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| subarctic | cool summers, cold winter
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| mediterranean | dry, warm summer and cool, wet winter
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| semi-arid climate | enough mositure to support vegetation
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| humid continental | cool, wet winters, warm dry summers, moderate precipitaion
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| humid suptropical | hot summers, no dry season
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| continental subarctic | cold to mild all yar, low total precipitation
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| Marine west coast | warm-cool summers, no dry season
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| What is a deciduous forest | trees drop their leaves before winter because the decrease in temperature limits their ability to photosynthesize
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| What is a coniferous forest | forest in temperate regions with warm summers and cool winters. predominately evergreen conifers
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| what is deforestation | clearing of vast areas of forests for farming and urban development
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| What are the two cliamate factors | air temperture and percipitation
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| renewable resources | resources that can be replaced continually
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| non-renewable resources | raw gas, iron, copper
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| population growth is based on what | birth and death rate
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| Legislative branch | power to create, amend, and change laws
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| executive branch | responsible for the day-to-day management of the state. contains head of govenment, the president, who is the head of this branch
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| Judical branch | explains laws, conducts trails and test the laws to make sure that they are constitutional. consists of the supreme court
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| electoral college | to select the president and vice president
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| house of representative | elected every 2 years
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| senate | elected every six years
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| Bill of rights | 1st 10 amendments
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| roe v. wade | right to abortion
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