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6th Grade
05/05/2012

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In what year did Columbus discover America?
Definition
1492
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What group was Martin Luther mad at?
Definition
Catholic Church
Term
Name a native American group that had a writing system?
Definition
Aztec, Maya
Term
What was the Treaty of Tordessillas?
Definition
Spain and Portugal, who were both rapidly claiming land, wet to the pope to have him make a treaty for them. In it, Spain got south and north America, and Portugaa got Africa and the tip of Brazil.
Term
What does migration mean?
Definition
Humans moving from place to place.
Term
What does archeology mean?
Definition
The study of human history BEFORE written records.
Term
Name two Native American groups we studied that live in what is today Mexico?
Definition
The Maya and the Aztec. and the Inca.
Term
What was the Columbian Exchange?
Definition
The columbian exchange was the exchange of things between Europe and North and South America for the first time.
Term
List the first three colonies set up by the English in America, in order?
Definition
1. Roanoke -
2. Jamestown
3. Plymouth.
Term
How many colonies did the English set up that became the original states?
Definition
13
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Why did we study the Protestant Reformation? what difference did it make to American history?
Definition
Some of the religions formed by the Protestant Reformation founded colonies in America.
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What was the Mayflower Compact?
Definition
The Mayflower Compact was a document of law written by the colonist coming to America to form Plymouth. It was the first time colonists made their own rules.
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What does the word economic mean?
Definition
Having to do with money $$
Term
What was the Proclamation of 1763?
Definition
Said that colonists couldn't settle west of the Appalachain mountains, to leave that land for their native american allies in the French and Indian War.
Term
How many planes were involved in the attacks of 9-11?
Definition
Four
Term
In what year did the US revolution begin and when did it end?
Definition
1775-1786
Term
Who wrote Common Sense?
Definition
Thomas Paine
Term
What was the goal of Common Sense?
Definition
A pamphlet trying to get the colonists to revolt.
Term
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Definition
Thomas Jefferson
Term
What law or act from England made the colonists mad because it took away the power of the assembly to NOt pay the governor if they were mad at him?
Definition
Townsend Acts
Term
Who was president when the attacks of 9-11 happened?
Definition
George W. Bush
Term
How was John Adams involved in the Boston Massacre?
Definition
He was the lawyer for the British soldiers from the Boston Massacre.
Term
List three parts of the Intolerable Acts.
Definition
1. Boston harbor closed until tea was paid for.
2. The quartering Acts -
3. new governor of Massachusetts
Term
Why didn't Georgia send anyone to the first Continental Congress?
Definition
The British soldiers were fighting native americans away from Georgia and Georgia didn't want to make them stop.
Term
Explain the Navigation Acts.
Definition
Said the colonists could only sell to England and could only buy from England.
Term
Who started the Protestant Refromation?
Definition
Martin Luther
Term
What was the 2nd amendment to the US Constitution?
Definition
The right to own guns in order to form a "organized militia"
Term
How long was the original charter for the Bank of the United States of America?
Definition
20 years
Term
Name a person we studied who was a federalist.
Definition
John Adams
Term
What does the name of the XYZ affair refer to?
Definition
X,Y, and Z were what John Adams called the French agents.
Term
What event that happened in 1786 showed how weak the Articles of Confederation were?
Definition
Bacon's Rebellion
Term
What are the three branches of government?
Definition
Executive-(president)
Legislative-(congress)
Judicial-(Supreme Court)
Term
What was the Great Compromise?
Definition
The Great Compromise split Congress into to parts( the House of Representitives, in which the population of a state determines how many people go to Congress, and the Senate, in which each state sends two people to Congress
Term
What part of the Constitution says that Congress can make all laws that are "necessary and proper" for carring out its duties called?
Definition
elastic clause
Term
Explain the Three-Fifths Compromise?
Definition
Every Five slaves would count as three people in terms of counting how many people get to go to the House of Representitives
Term
What Battle was the turning point of the US Revelution?
Definition
Saratoga
Term
What was the first fighting of the US Revelution called?
Definition
Battle of Lexington Green
Term
What was the last battle of the US Revolution called?
Definition
Yorktown
Term
Why was Jay's treaty not satisfing?
Definition
it said England couldnt attack our small ships, but big ships were fair game.
Term
Who was Justice of the Supreme Court in Marbury v. Madison?
Definition
John Marshal
Term
When the Supreme Court looks over a law and destroys it for being unconstitutional called?
Definition
Judicial Review
Term
What was John Rolfe the first to do?
Definition
Farm tabaco in Jamestown.
Term
Who was King Phillip?
Definition
A Native American chief
Term
What year was the Louisiana Purchase made?
Definition
1803
Term
How were the Alien and Sedition Acts unconstitutional?
Definition
The Sedition part made it illegal to insult the President or his Party; this went against freedom of speech, freedom of protest, and freedom of press.
Term
Who was the father of communism?
Definition
Karl Marx
Term
What is one major difference between capitalism and communism?
Definition
Capitalism has regular people owning businesses; communism has government owning businesses.
Term
What are the years of WWI?
Definition
1914-1918
Term
What event started WWI in Europe?
Definition
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. He was archduke of Austria-Hungary and he was assassinated in Sarajevo.
Term
What was NATO?
Definition
America's Cold War alliance.
Term
What was stock speculating?
Definition
It was borrowing money to buy stocks.
Term
What did Henry Ford do to increase the production rate of his cars?
Definition
Conveyor belt/assembly line.
Term
What was Seward's Folly?
Definition
Buying Alaska.
Term
Who initiated the New Deal?
Definition
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Term
Name a Progressive Era amendment to the US Constitution.
Definition
18, 19, 20
Term
What is anti-semitism?
Definition
Being rude or unfair to Jewish people for no reason but the fact that they are Jewish.
Term
Who was the leader of the Nazi Party in Germany?
Definition
Adolf Hitler
Term
Who was Al Capone?
Definition
A gangster who made and sold alcohol during Prohibition.
Term
Where was Hitler born?
Definition
Austria
Term
What is capitalism?
Definition
Where companies are owned by regular people and compete for service.
Term
Describe Lincoln's 10% plan
Definition
10% of the rich white guys had to take loyalty oaths
Term
How do trusts and monopolies affect competition?
Definition
They destroy it because in trusts, all companies raise prices and lower quality, and in monopolies, there is only one company.
Term
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
Definition
Fat cat industrialist who sold steel.
Term
In what war did Teddy Roosevelt become a war hero?
Definition
Spanish-American War
Term
What treaty ended WWI?
Definition
Treaty of Versailles
Term
What was Prohibition?
Definition
Time period when alcohol was illegal.
Term
What country was most blamed for WWI?
Definition
Germany
Term
Who was Eli Whitney?
Definition
Invented the cotton gin. An engine.
Term
Who was the general for the north during the Civil War?
Definition
Ulysses S. Grant
Term
Who owned Standard Oil?
Definition
J.D. Rockefeller
Term
Name the newspaper published by Benjamin Franklin
Definition
Poor Richard's Almanac
Term
Who was William Randolph Hearst?
Definition
powerful rich guy. Pushed US into Spanish-American War. Publisher.
Term
Who started the National Parks Service?
Definition
Teddy Roosevelt
Term
During the Cold War, Russia had a clubhouse of friendly countries called ________.
Definition
The Warsaw Pact
Term
During the Cold War, America had a clubhouse of friendly countries called _______.
Definition
NATO
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