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| what group has the power of the purse? |
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| congress (more specific, i got half points for saying congress) |
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| How were the Alien and Sedition Acts unconstitutional? |
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| They went against the Freedom of Speech and the Freedom to Protest |
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| it was the pen name for the people who wrote the federalist papers |
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| What started the XYZ Affairs? |
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| the french hassling our ships at sea |
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| Who was the leader of the Federalist PArty? |
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| What does bicameral mean? |
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| the government being split into 2 houses |
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| it is when the Supreme court can declare a law unconstitutional and then it is no longer a law |
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| Who was the chief justice of the Supreme court in the Marbury v Madison case? |
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Louisiana Purchase:
Which president bought it?
IN what year?
Where did we purchase it from? |
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Jefferson
in 1803
from France |
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| What treaty ended the War of 1812? |
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| What is the elastic clause? COME BACK AND CHECK IN NOTES!! |
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| it is the idea that the government can make new laws even if the constitution says something different if it is "nessisary and proper" (or something like that, like i said, come back and change answer based on the notes! if not u will get this question wrong on the comp!) |
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| WHat group REALLY picks the president? |
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| What were Paul Revere's goals for the Midnight Ride? |
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1: Warn the colonists that the british were coming.
2: Warn John Hancock and Sam Adams to hide.
3: Don't let the British get to the weapons in Concord. |
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| What was the goal of Common Sense? |
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| convince people that we should have a revolution |
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Magna Carta:
what country did it effect?
What year? |
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| What was the U.S.'s official announcment that we were splitting away from England? |
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| the Declaration of Independence |
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| what was the three-fifths compromise? |
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| 5 slaves count as three colonists when a state is trying to determine how many people to send to the House of Representatives |
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| What was the goal of the federalist papers? |
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| it was trying to get the states to vote for a new constitution |
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| What are 3 rights contained in the first amendment? |
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freedom of religon
freedom to protest
freedom of the press |
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| what were 2 things that the 2nd continental congress did? |
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1:had jefferson write the Dec. of Ind.
2: Sent Franklin to France to get them to help us win the Revolutionary War |
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| how many senators does each state get? |
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| what was teh great comprimise? |
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| the idea to split congress into both the senate and the house of representatives |
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| who was George Whitfield? |
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| a preacher during the great awakening |
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| What were the navagation acts? |
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| they were laws passed by Parliment that said colonists can only purchase English Products. |
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| what is america's oldest university? |
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| What was the Albany Plan of Union? |
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| the idea that Franklin proposed that said that the colonies should unite to fight the French and the Indians |
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| dates of the u.s. revolution? |
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| WHo is the oldest, most famous and most super-awesome of the founding fathers? |
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| Why did the sugar act make the colonists mad? |
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| because even though it made the tax for sugar and molasses less, the tax was collected more agressively and thoughly |
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| what was the proclamation of 1763? |
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| colonists couldn't settle west of the Appalachian Mountains (but they did) |
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| 4 parts of the Intollerable Acts? |
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1: Quartering Acts
2: Public meetings banned
3: Harbors in Boston closed.
4: New Governor for Massachussetts. |
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| What group was responsible for the 9/11 attacks? |
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| what 2 countries did we attack as a result of the 9/11 attack? |
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| what were the colonial legislatures called? |
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| how was john adams involved in the Boston Massacre? |
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| he defended the British soldiers who shot at the colonists. |
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| who were two rich, Virgina tobacco planters that were founding fathers? |
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| What 2 countriea were involved in the Treaty of Toresillas? |
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| to find a shorter route to get from Europe to Asia without sailing around Africa |
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| what does agriculture mean? |
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| how did humans first get to north america? |
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| they crossed over land that was exposed from the ice during the Ice Age, they came from Russia |
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| He was the guy who took over the Aztec |
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| What was the Columbian Exchange? |
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| it was when Europe got new stuff from America and America got new stuff from Europe |
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| who invented the printing press? |
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| how did the printing press help lead to the protestant reformation? |
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| the printing press led to more people being able to read and more people created new variations of the bible and then it led to the Protestant Reformation |
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| what was the first profitable crop grown in the U.S.? |
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| What were the first three English colonies? |
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| Roanoke, Jamestown, Plymouth |
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| He was the only effective leader of JAmestown, he met the Native Americans, he learned the survival secrets of the land. |
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| which of first 3 colonies was started for religous reasons? |
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| who was William Lloyd Garrison? |
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| he was a famous (not voilent) abolitionist who wrote the Liberator |
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| What did an expansionist want? |
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| what are natural rights and who proposed them? |
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| rights that everybody is born with; John Locke |
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| What did Lincoln argue in the Lincoln-Douglass debates? |
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| he argued that slavery should be allowed in states that already had it, but no new states should have slavery. |
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| What was the underground railroad? |
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| a system of safehouses for slaves escaping form the south |
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| What happened at Fort Sumter? |
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| the first fighting of the civil war? |
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| What did the Supreme COurt say about the Missouri Comprimise in the Dred Scott v Sandford case? |
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| it said that they were unconstitutional |
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| What were the dates of the civil war? |
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| What is collective bargaining? |
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| it is when ALL THE EMPLOYEES of a company ask for something and they refuse to work until they get what they want |
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| WHat does the word enfranchise mean? |
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| someone who starts a business |
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| what is the horizontal integration? |
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| when a company buys out its competitors (the businesses that sell the same type of stuff) |
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| what was JP Morgan's business? |
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| What was Rockefeller's business? |
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| He was the dude who founded the AFL |
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| What was Bryan's Cross of Gold Speech about? |
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| it was about the Gold Contreversy (9which was when the US was trying to decide whether to use both sivler and gold coins or just gold) bryan was for both gold and silver |
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| What did the US want from the Spanish American War? |
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| What is the best description of the time between the end of the Civil War and the 1900's? |
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| A time of strong bussiness and weak government |
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| What was one of the reasons Prohibition failed? |
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| it led to an enormous increase in law enforcment |
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| What was the most important part of the 14 Points Plan? |
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| What proposal did W. Wilson make? |
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| What did the 19th Amendment do? |
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| What year did the US enter WWI? |
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| What was the League of Nations? |
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| a unsuccessful early attempt at the United Nations after WWI |
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| The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria |
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| Which part of the Constitution started Prohibition? |
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| What lead T. Roosevelt to issue the Roosevelt Corollary? |
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| Gunboat Diplomacy on the part of European countries |
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| Who did the Treaty of Versailles blame for WWI. |
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| Who that we learned about was a gangster? |
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| Who was the first communist leader of Russia? |
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| Who made the first airplane? |
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| What were the 4 new technologies used in WWI? |
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1: SUBMARINES
2: AIRPLANES
3:TANKS
4: CHEMICAL GASes
4: |
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| Why is the Lusitania important? |
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| it was one of the reasons that we got into WWI. |
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| What was the Zimmerman Telegram? |
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| It was a telegram that we decoded that Germany sent to Mexico telling them to distract us so we couldn't lend supplies to the countries Germany was fighting, it was one of the reasons we joined WWI. |
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| It is the idea that countries should stay out of foreign affairs except for trading |
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| What are the two major canals of the world? |
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| The Suez Canal and the Panama Canal |
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| What is a mutual protection pact? |
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| it is an agreement between countries that if one is attacked the other/s will help the attacked country |
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| in what state was Teddy Roosevelt's family powerful? |
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| What did temperance groups want? |
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| they wanted drinking to be illegal |
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| Who was William McKinley? |
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| He was one of our presidents. LOOK UP WHAT HE DID IN OUR NOTES! |
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| Which president do the 100 Days refer to? |
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| What year did the Great Depression begin? |
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| Which president was blamed for the Great Depression? |
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| when England didn't do anything about Hitler building up Germany's military |
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| When did the Big Three decide to divide Germany? |
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| What was the "soft underbelly of Europe"? |
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| it was the bottom of Europe that we attacked during WWI. |
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| How many Jewish people died in the Holocaust? |
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| Why was Berlin a problem for Russia during the Cold War? |
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| half of it was capitalist and Russia wanted it to be Communist |
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| Where was the first atomic explosion? (Hint: it was the practice run) |
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| Who wrote the Communist Manifesto? |
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| What marked the end of the Cold War? |
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| the tearing down of the Berlin Wall |
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| Who does communism say should own businesses? |
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| What was the Domino Theory? |
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| it was the idea that if one country fell to communism, they all would |
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| When did the first Red Scare start? |
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| When did the 2nd red scare begin? |
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| What was another name for Russia during the Cold War? |
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| WHat group in the House of Representatives was in charge of exposing communists during the 2nd red scare? |
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| It was the term for when all the rich business men had lots of fancy parties and such. REVIEW IN NOTE BOOK! |
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| What were 2 english colonies started way back in the day by groups following Protestant Religions, and for religious reasons? |
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| Massachussetts and Virginia (i think Virginia anyways) |
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| What did the Civil RIghts Act of 1964 do? |
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| It gave blacks the same rights as whites. |
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