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AH Final Exam

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What was another name for Pilgrims?   Separatist  
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What was the early Representative Democracy in the USA?   House Of Burgesses  
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What was the border between Maryland and Pennsylvania known as?   Mason Dixon Line  
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Why did the English establish Roanoke?   Wanted more people to trade and to buy english goods  
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Which Spanish Explorer found the Mississippi?   Hernando de soto  
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Who was the first European to see the Pacific?   Vasco Nunez  
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What was the largest city in the world in the 1200s?   Hung jo china  
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Which Portuguese explorer passed the Southern tip of Africa first?   Bartolomeu Dias  
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he Magna Carta was the first document to establish a what?   as a peace treaty between the king and the rebels.  
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Whose trial helped establish freedom of press?   Peter Zenger  
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Who wrote Poor Richard’s Almanac?   Benjamin Franklin  
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in 1765 Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which required colonists to do what?   Tax for every piece of paper bought  
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Which side fired the first shot of the American Revolution?   no body knows  
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Which country was the first to sign a treaty of alliance with the US?   France  
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The Declaration of Independence is divided into a preamble and three main sections. The first main section states ideas about what?   General ideas of society and government  
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How did the Bill of Rights become part of the Constitution?   Added through the amendment process  
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What did most state constitutions have that the original United States Constitution did not have   The bill of rights  
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How is the president of the United States get elected?   People vote  
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A new bill may be introduced which body? The Senate or Congress?   Both Senate and congress  
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How was the French Revolution like the American Revolution?   Both gained freedom  
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Which event forced Native Americans to give up their land in present-day Ohio?   Battle of fallen timbers  
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What was a result of the Lewis and Clark expedition?   hat was a result of the Lewis and Clark expedition?  
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Why Thomas Jefferson was uneasy about buying the Louisiana Territory?   Unconstitutional  
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Suffrage is   the right to vote  
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The Industrial Revolution began in what industry?   textile  
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What did Horace Mann believe was essential for a democracy to work?   Public schools and education  
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Some Northern workers were against abolition because they thought free slaves would take what from them?   Their Jobs  
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Why did American settlers in Texas come into conflict with Mexico in the 1830s?   No representation in mexican legislature  
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What is the importance of the siege at the Alamo?   When texas fought independence from mexico  
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California’s call to join the Union in 1850 would have given free states what in the Legislative branch?   More power than the south because they had more free than slave states. And trouble in the home lands  
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In the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Abraham Lincoln insisted that the territories be kept free from what?   Slavery  
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During the Civil War prices of goods in both the North and the South did what?   Rose because needed more funds  
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What document banned slaves in areas fighting the Union?   Emancipation proclamation  
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When Reconstruction began, Abraham Lincoln’s main goal was to do what?   Rebuild the Union  
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The Battle of Wounded Knee signaled the end to what wars?   End of the indian wars  
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A land rush in 1889 brought tens of thousands of settlers to which Western territory?   Oklahoma  
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What aided in the growth of newspapers in the late 1800s?   More people and it started being more entertaining  
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Why did states improve public education after the Civil War?   They needed more skilled people for better/more special tasks  
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Members of the temperance movement wanted to outlaw what?   Alcohol  
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Name a leader of the Gilded Age?   John d rockefeller  
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