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50 Cards in this Set
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Who discovered the New World in 1492?
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Columbus
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What year did the Pilgrims settle at Plymouth Rock?
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1620
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Who founded Harvard and in what year?
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The Puritans, in 1636
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The ______ adopted the ______ on July 4, 1776
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Continental Congress, Declaration of Independece
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Where does the American concept of government come from and who brought it here?
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Religious thought, the Puritans
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The _______ guarantees freedom of religion, speech, the press, and freedom of assembly
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First Amendment
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Second Amendment
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Right to bear arms and organizes a militia
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Third Amendment
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Forbids the government from forcing homeowners to house soldiers
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Fourth Amendment
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Forbids searches and seizures without a warrant
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Fifth Amendment
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Right to due process by law, and prevents self-incrimination
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Sixth Amendment
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Right to speedy and public trial
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Seventh Amendment
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Right to trial by jury
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Eighth Amendment
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Forbids cruel and unusual punishment
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Ninth Amendment
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People retain any rights not forbidden by the Constitution
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Tenth Amendment
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Any powers not granted to the federal gov't are retained by the state gov't
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Where did the British surrender at the end of the American war?
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Yorktown, Virginia
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What year was the US constitution ratified?
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1788
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What years was the Civil War
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1861-1865
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Who did John Wilkes Booth assassinate?
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Abraham Lincoln
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Who founded the Tuskegee Institute and in what year?
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Booker T. Washington, in 1881
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The Wright brothers made the first powered and controlled airplane flight in what year?
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1903
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What year was the Model T introduced? By who? What is important about this?
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1908. Henry Ford. It was the first mass-produced automobile
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What years was WWI? When did the US enter?
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1914-1918, the US entered in 1917
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What year did the Great Depression begin and when did it end?
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1929, it lasted until WWI
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Who seized power in Italy? What year?
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Mussolini, 1922
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Who seized power in Germany? What year?
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Hitler, 1933
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What years was WWII? When did the US enter?
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1939-1945, the US entered in 1941
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Beginning in 1945, list the presidents in order.
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Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush (Sr.), Clinton, Bush (Jr.)
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When was the first Atomic bomb dropped?
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August 1945
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The soviet union's gov't was based on ____.
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Communism
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The ______ took place from 1948-1949
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Berlin Airlift
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Who led the soviet union? What years?
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Joseph Stalin from 1922-1953
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What year was the Korean War?
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1950-1953
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NATO stands for _______
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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Who US senator accused Americans of being communists?
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Joseph McCarthy
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The Berlin Wall was created when?
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August 1961
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What occurred in 1962?
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
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Where was JFK assassinated and when?
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Dallas, TX in November of 1963
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Congress passed the _______ in 1964
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Civil Rights Act
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Who was assassinated in 1968?
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MLK Jr.
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SALT stands for ______ |
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
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What years was the Vietnam War?
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1964-1973
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What president resigned due to Watergate?
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Richard Nixon
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In ____, Americans in Iran were taken hostage by the _____________.
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1979, by the new Iranian gov't
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What year did the Soviet Union invade Afghanistan?
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Early 1980
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Who was the leader when the soviet union collapsed?
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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What ended in 1991?
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The "Cold War"
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The ______ took place in _____.
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First Gulf War, in 1991
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Who was impeached but not removed from office?
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President Bill Clinton
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Al Gore won the ______ vote in the 2000 election, but George W. Bush won the majority of ____ votes.
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Al Gore-popular vote George W. Bush-electoral votes |
