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History 1700
FInal Study Guide David Wilson
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Undergraduate 1
12/15/2013

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Tolerance
Definition
UnCertainity = a range
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Beringia
Definition
Land bridge between Siberia and Alaska
Term
What was the Black Legend?
Definition
Spanish Cruelty
Term
Rope of Sand
Definition
Article of Confederation
Term
Fire Hunting
Definition
Hunting Practice
Term
Seral Succession
Definition
Plant Life
Term
Virginia and Kentucky Resolution
Definition
Nullify any fed law judged unconstitutional
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Fugistive Slave Act
Definition
Hunt down slaves
Term
Who did the Tariff of 1828 benefit?
Definition
North
Term
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Definition
State choice regarding slavery
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Which document says

 

States CAN NOT reject Federal laws?

Definition
Constitutution
Term
Volstead Act
Definition
Prohibition
Term
Civil Disobedience
Definition
oppose unjust laws, but take consequences
Term
Gospel of Wealth
Definition
Dwarfism, Andrew Carnegie
Term
What is Prohibition?
Definition
outlaw alcohol
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How did the Great Depression affect Europe?
Definition
Totalilarism, like Nazi's
Term
Truman Doctrine
Definition
Halt Communism
Term
Great Society
Definition
LBJ's Social programs
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Nullification
Definition
reject law if unconstitutional
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CREEP
Definition

Espionage

Committee to re-elect the President

Sent to SPY on Democrats

Term
Pentagon Papers
Definition
Secret docs about Vietnam
Term
Feminine mystique
Definition
Betty's satisifation through marriage and childbirth
Term
OPEC
Definition

"Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries"

 

protect the interests of oil-producing countries

 

OPEC instituted an oil embargo that targeted the United States and its European allies

Term
Star Wars
Definition
Weapons designed to shoot missiles
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Iron Curtain
Definition
Churchill's barrier between Communist world and west
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Allotment
Definition
land division for Indians to farm
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Navajo-Hopi Act
Definition
was a neutral land. The Act displaced 10,000 Navajos
Term
Hoovervilles
Definition
shanty cardboard towns
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Native American Casinos
Definition

Few of the casinos

 

make a profit

 

to provide revenue for all

Term
Uni of Gottingen
Definition
Principle of UnCertanity, Scientists can't be, Natzi's think they are
Term

What did the dude

Cabeza de Vaca

realize from his journey?

Definition
No chance for peace, he ended up in a very normal world
Term
Bay of Pigs
Definition
Trying to get rid of Castro because of communism
Term
What did Woodrow Wilson say?
Definition
World must be safe for democracy
Term
Andrew Jackson
Definition
Credit more plentiful after Jackson killed second bank
Term
Abraham Lincoln
Definition
The last best hope of the world
Term

What was the

 

Civil War

 

all about?

Definition
Slavery
Term

The Cuban Missile Crisis


was solved when we did what?

Definition

Identified what

Soviet Premier Khrushchev wanted

Term
Nikita Khrushchev
Definition
Premier of the Soviet Union during Cuban Missle crisis
Term
Who are the Anasazi?
Definition
vanished SW Indians who were Hopee ancestors
Term
Who led the Pueblo Revolt?
Definition
Pope
Term
Shay's Rebellion - what did it prove?
Definition
Need for a strong Central government
Term
Who was Manuel Lisa?
Definition
Buffalo skin trader in Yellowstone
Term
Colter's Hell
Definition
Yellowstone
Term
What did William Lloyd Garrison do?
Definition
Abolitionist who started newspaper
Term
Who wrote "Civil Disobedience" and inspired Martin Luther King?
Definition
Henry David Thoreau
Term
Border Rufians
Definition
Pro-salvery terrorists
Term
Where and what was Bent's Fort for?
Definition
SE Colorado buffalo hide trading post
Term
Who is Black Kettle? Tribe? What did he do?
Definition
Cheyenne chief, peacekeeper, negotiated Sand Creek
Term
Why did the Cheyennes lose their land?
Definition
to gold
Term
Bozeman Trail Location?
Definition
Wyoming
Term
Who were the Texas Cowboys?
Definition
Ex Confederates and Ex slaves
Term
Jesse James & Billy the Kid
Definition
Robin Hood Figures
Term
The Long Walk
Definition
Navajos forcefully walked to Bosque Rodondo. Kit Carson's scorched earth.
Term
Bosque Rodondo
Definition
Like a Nazi concentration camp. Holes in the ground for homes.
Term
Bataan Death March
Definition
American soldiers left in Philippines by MacArthur
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How many zones did Allies divide Germany into?
Definition
4 zones
Term
Brown v Brd of Education
Definition
Reversing Plessy v Feurgeson (segregation)
Term
Civil Rights activist. Influenced by Gandhi. He and Malcom X met in the middle
Definition
Martin Luther King
Term

What did Cornel West say

about Martin Luther King?

Definition
MLK more forceful than history shows
Term
Fought for Civil Rights. White & Black can get along
Definition
Malcolm X
Term
Marbury v Madison
Definition
Judicial Review
Term
Spiro T. Agnew
Definition
VP resigned Tax fraud
Term
Tim Leary
Definition
LSD Harvard Professor
Term
Why was the US embassy in Teheran attacked?
Definition
Wanted their Shah back
Term
Roe v Wade
Definition
Abortion legal 1st trimester
Term
Milkin, Levin and Boesky
Definition
Traitors
Term
What happened in Grenada?
Definition
Reagan sent troops to intevene communists
Term

 

The Great Communicator who torn down Berlin wall

Definition
Ronald Reagan
Term
Timoth McVeigh and Terry Nichols
Definition
Militant Movement
Term
Operation Restore Hope
Definition
Clinton's Nation Building in Somalia
Term
James Carville constant reminder to Clinton?
Definition
"It's the economy, stupid"
Term
GHW Bush spoke of "the new world order", what did it too often consist of?
Definition
Clan and Tribal agendas
Term
Why did Kenneth Starr examine Clinton?
Definition
Clinton Lied under oath
Term
Why did Blacks think of the OJ Simpson trial?
Definition
Framed by police
Term
1990s economic boom
Definition
Information Technology companies
Term
Which state tipped the Presidential election of 2000?
Definition
Florida
Term
911 Commission concluded about American's security?
Definition
Feds unprepared
Term
Why did the U.S. invade Afghanistan?
Definition
Afghanistan was hiding Bin Laden
Term

During the 2008 president election,

 

what ONE thing didn't

 

John McCain attack Bush about?

Definition
Climate change
Term
What caused the Financial meltdown of 2007?
Definition
Real Estate
Term
John Dean
Definition
Testified against whitehouse in Watergate
Term
As a Congressman, what was Richard Nixon know for? Why did he say to win the Presidency?
Definition
House Rep that was against communism. Presidential candidate known for law and order
Term
Were the American Indians lifestyle perfect?
Definition
Had problems, not perfect
Term
Why was it cheaper to buy slaves than rent servants?
Definition
Life expentancy
Term
What was the Mexican War about?
Definition
About slavery states, and to get more Democrats
Term
Main role of the Plains Indian chiefs?
Definition
Peacekeeper
Term
How did whites in the Colorado territory see Indians?
Definition
All the same and wanted their extinction
Term
What was the SW Economy based on before Whites?
Definition
Raiding between Mexicans and Navajos
Term
Alien Invasions in 1950s?
Definition
Soviet Communists
Term
Verona Project
Definition
Declassified papers released about spying during WW
Term
What was not a concern of the "Christian Right"?
Definition
Not medicare and health care policies
Term
Iranians got involved in war
Definition
but weren't Arabs
Term
Who decides who are Indians?
Definition
Individual Tribes
Term
Why do Indian tribes receive support?
Definition
Treaty obligations
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