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8th Grade
05/24/2010

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Labor of Southern rice fields was provided by:
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enslave Africans
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The largest fighting force in the colonies in 1777was:
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the Brisitsh
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The movement that influenced the Constituions architects was:
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the Enlightenment
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The amount of the nations government ows is called:
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the national debt
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The election of 1800 was decided by:
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the House of Represenatives
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Americans industrial revolution began to take roote in:
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New England
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Stephen A. Douglas proposed letting the people decide about slavery through:
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popular sovereignty
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_____________ is a book by Harriet Beech Stowe about the brutal cruel system of slavery
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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____________ was named after a small church
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The battle of Shiloh
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__________________ guarantees accused individuals the right to a hearing before being jailed.
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Habeas Corpus
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The period of rebuilding after the Civil War was called:
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Reconstruction
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Political balance in the South restored full rights to people who supporeted the Deomcrats through:
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the Amnesty Act
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The 14th amendment states that:
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no state could take away a citizens life liberty and property without due process of law
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The national Negro Buisness League was founded by:
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Booker T Washington
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The first action of the Spanish-American war took place in the
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Philippines

 

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World War 1 cost the US about:
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$32 billion
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The gross national product is the total value of_________________
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all goods and services produnced in the country
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______________ won the presidential election of 1928
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Herbert Hoover
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An economic downstrum is called:
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a recession
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F.D Roosevelt made the promise:_________________________ when speaking about WWII
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your boys are not going to be sent away into any foreign wars.
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In the middle east jews and arabs both claimed:
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the Palestine
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The marshall plan helped rebuild :
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the countries of western europe
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the U-2 incident:
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refroze the cold war
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The first of a series of racial riots that hit cities in 1965 was in:
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Watts in Los Angeles
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___________ was the first foreign crisis President JF Kennedy face
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Cuba
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____________ was the Polish leader of Solidarity
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Lech Walesa
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What is Nafta
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the trade agreement with Canada, Meixco and the US
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The ______ was the largest empire of early American civilizations.
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Inca
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THe ppl of the plains were:
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the native ppl that were skilled in riding horses
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____________ nd  ____________ were the leaders of the War Hawks
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Clay andCalhoun
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The south pass was the main route settlers too to :
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Oregon
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________________ was named commander in chief of the texas forces
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Sam Houston
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The telegraph was invented to:
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help communicate
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___________ had a both pro and anti slavery government
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Kansas
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The Dred Scott case decision meant:
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the Constituion proteted slavery
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When __________________ violtated the Tenure of Office act, teh HOR voted to impeach him
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President A. Jackson
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THe Ghost dance:
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is wat wovoka, a prophet, fot the Sioux Indians did to help them regain their former greatness
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The southern Alliance:
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is the network of farmers that rallied against railroads an "money power"
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Grace Abbott and Julia Lathrop founded:
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the Immigrants Protectrive league
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To rally support the treaty of versailles Wilson :
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went on a national speaking tour
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_______ authorized spending on public works to combat tghe great depression
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Hoover
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_________________ won the presidential election in 1948
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Harry truman
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The generation gap of 1950s was what people called:
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 the differing attitudes of teh young and old
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Ngo Dinh Diems govt took the tights away from  
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the buddhist in south vietnam
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The _____________ is a selective service system that supplies soldiers for war
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draft
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The ____________________ created a division in America
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generation gap
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The ________________ War caused Arab oil producing states to impose an embargo on oil shipments to the US
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Yom Kippur
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A trade dificit is when:
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the value of foreign impots exceeds the value of domestic imports
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The _______ was not part of C. Columbus fleet
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Tierra
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Horace Mann became the leader of:
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Education Reform
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Texas struggled with Mexico to:
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gain tis independence
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The question of becoming a free state or a slave state applied:
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to new states entering the US
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The 13th Amendement:
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abolished slavery
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The US ecpanded into the Pacific by:
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acquiring Midway and Hawaii
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Reformers are:
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groups seeking to correct injustice and solve social problems
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The new deal helped;
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the nation to pull out of the great depression
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American Indian Movement is the Native American Organization that:
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protest broken treaties and civil right violations
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Who needed 25 electoral votes from Florida in the 2000 presidential election?
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Al Gore nd G. Bush
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