Preparation For The IOC4 Assessment
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| show | Map Projections
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| Visualizes the globe projected onto a cylinder. The meridians of longitude, which on the globe converge at the poles, are parallel to one another; the equator is tangent to the globe. | show 🗑
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| Created the first projection map in the 16th century. He projected the parallels of latitude as growing further apart as they left the equator. This preserved the shape of the globe, but distorted the size of masses. | show 🗑
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| show | Conic Projections
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| The most useful projection maps today. They employ projections that use horizontal parallels. This projection is usually split mid-ocean to maintain the continuity of the land masses. | show 🗑
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| Another name for sustainable resources | show 🗑
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| Resources that cannot be sustained. In other words, they can't be grown, made, or regenerated. | show 🗑
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| Factors in Population Growth | show 🗑
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| Factors that Directly Determine Population Growth | show 🗑
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| How is the term "birth rate" defined? | show 🗑
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| How is the term "replacement rate" defined? | show 🗑
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| How is the term "death rate" defined? | show 🗑
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| show | Relief Maps
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| show | Climate Maps
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| show | Political Maps
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| show | Topographical Maps
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| show | Physical Maps
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| Where did the Nez Perce tribe live in the 1600s? | show 🗑
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| Sixteenth-century Spanish adventurers, often of noble birth, who subdued the Native Americans and created the Spanish Empire in the New World. | show 🗑
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| show | Treaty of Tordesillas
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| show | Encomienda
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| show | The Great Migration
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| Imposed new import duties on sugar, coffee, wines, and other imports; instituted tougher customs collection methods; and expanded the jurisdiction of the vice-admiralty courts. | show 🗑
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| A law passed by Parliament to raise revenue in America. John Adams remarked, “The pot was set to boil”. | show 🗑
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| Extended the province’s boundaries all the way south to the Ohio River and west to the Mississippi. | show 🗑
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| It allowed the East India Company to ship tea directly to America, thereby eliminating the colonial middlemen and permitting Americans to purchase tea at bargain rates. | show 🗑
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| show | Manifest Destiny
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| A system of land distribution through which settlers were granted a 50-acre plot of land from the colonial government for each servant or dependent they transported to the New World. | show 🗑
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| show | "Trail of Tears"
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| Who commissioned the Lewis and Clark Expedition? | show 🗑
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| show | Abraham Lincoln
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| Which president challenged scientists to send a man to the moon? | show 🗑
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| show | Richard Nixon
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| Who was elected president in 1861? | show 🗑
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| Which president passed the Agricultural Adjustment Act? | show 🗑
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| show | Franklin D. Roosevelt
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| Which president helped establish the FDIC? | show 🗑
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| Which president hastened the end of the Cold War? | show 🗑
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| show | Franklin D. Roosevelt
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| show | Europe
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| show | Treaty of Versailles
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| show | Great Society
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| show | Bill introduced, Subcommittee Hearings, Committee Action, Floor Action to Conference Action to Floor Action, Presidential Decision, and Law
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| Each state's electors gather to formally cast their ballots for president and vice president. Electors typically cast their votes for their party's candidates. | show 🗑
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| Why did Socialism fail in the United States? | show 🗑
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| show | Socialism
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| An economic system characterized by private ownership of the means of production and the right to trade in free markets. | show 🗑
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| show | Organize the public around broad, comprehensive principles, commit to these principles (via platforms) in elections, and execute the principles once elected.
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| A document drawn up by the platform committee at each national convention, outlining the policies, positions, and principles of the party. It is then submitted to the entire convention for approval. | show 🗑
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| show | Constituent
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| show | Contract with America
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| Legislation that allowed the president to veto a specific part of a spending bill rather than the entire bill, as had previously been the case. | show 🗑
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| Government in which the party in control of Congress is the same as the president's party. | show 🗑
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| Government in which the party in control of Congress is not the party of the president. | show 🗑
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| show | Vote, Talk politics, Join organizations, Call officials, Display bumper stickers, Make campaign contributions, Volunteer in campaigns, Protest, or Run for office Note: Less than 1% of citizens run for office.
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| Reasons for nonparticipation in politics: | show 🗑
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| show | Sit-in
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| show | Strike
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| The stocks of social trust, norms, and networks that people can draw upon to solve problems. | show 🗑
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| show | Social Contract
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| show | Interest Group
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| Removed barriers that southern blacks faced in voting and greatly increased black voting rates. | show 🗑
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| An approach to government that tends to favor individual responsibility over government responsibility and a limited role for government in most decisions. | show 🗑
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| An approach to government that tends to favor active government involvement in many decisions and the use of government to bring about social change. | show 🗑
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| An issue that divides voters. Rival parties or candidates take positions on these issues in order to appeal to only part of the electorate. | show 🗑
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| A position issue of the greatest divisiveness. These issues are often framed as irreconcilable moral positions and usually provoke an immediate reaction rather than thoughtful consideration. | show 🗑
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| A person's likelihood of voting is positively correlated with these traits: | show 🗑
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| Determinants of voter turnout: | show 🗑
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| show | Korematsu v. United States
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| A case involving a challenge to an Oklahoma statute allowing the sale of 3.2% beer to males over the age of 21 but to females over the age of 18. | show 🗑
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| show | John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
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| show | Anarchy
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| show | Monarchy
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| Government by a small, elite group. | show 🗑
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| Austrian political economist who developed a unique philosophy of capitalism and democratic political institutions. | show 🗑
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| show | Military-Industrial Complex
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| show | Direct Democracy
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| A republic; specifically, a government whose authority is obtained and held, directly or indirectly, through free elections in which all competent adult citizens are allowed to participate. | show 🗑
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| show | Theocracy
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| show | Habeas Corpus (Latin for "you should have the body")
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| Describing a legislative assembly comprising one chamber. | show 🗑
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| The doctrine through which the Supreme Court has held that the protections guaranteed by the Bill of Rights limit not only the federal government but also the states. | show 🗑
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| Bill of Rights Consists of: | show 🗑
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| The Supreme Court ruled that the Bill of Rights applied only to the federal government. | show 🗑
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| Characteristics of Ecosystems | show 🗑
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| The Nine Major Land Biomes | show 🗑
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| show | Climate
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| Measure of distance north or south of the equator that is expressed in degrees. | show 🗑
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| Includes treeless plains, cold temperatures, and shrubby plants with shallow root systems. | show 🗑
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| Largest Biome filled with cone-bearing trees. Occurs in the mountains of the Northern Hemisphere. No permafrost, but heavy snowfall. | show 🗑
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| Named for the trees that grow there. Known for its white-tailed deer and black bears. | show 🗑
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| Comprise the most species-rich of the land biomes. The forests occur along the equator. They comprise less than 2% of the earth’s surface, yet are home to nearly half of its species. | show 🗑
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| This case involved a Missouri slave who sued for his freedom on the grounds that he had lived for many years in an area where slavery had been outlawed by the Missouri Compromise. | show 🗑
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| Organized a new and independent movement for women's rights along with Lucretia Mott in 1848. | show 🗑
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| A black seamstress who, in 1955, violated a city ordinance by refusing to give up her seat to a white person on a local bus. This led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott headed by Martin Luther King, Jr. | show 🗑
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| The French channel steamer that was torpedoed by a German U-boat without warning in March of 1916. | show 🗑
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| The British steamship hit by a German torpedo in 1918. Twelve hundred people were killed, including one hundred twenty-eight Americans. | show 🗑
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| A climate characterized by cold winters and warm summers, with moderate levels of precipitation. | show 🗑
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| A climate with moderately cool winters, moderately warm summers, and moderate to high rainfall all year. | show 🗑
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| show | Semiarid
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| show | Humid Subtropical
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