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Where is the Yellow River
In Northeast China, the mouth is a bit south of Beijing. It is the 7th largest
river in the world, running west to east, and draining into the Bohai Sea.
What is the 1st Ammendment of the US Constitution?
Freedom of speech, press, religion, peaceable assembly, and to petition the
government.
What is the 2nd Ammendment of the US Constitution?
Right to keep and bear arms.
What is the 3rd Ammendment of the US Constitution?
Protection from quartering of troops.
What is the 4th Ammendment of the US Constitution?
Protection from unreasonable search and seizure.
What is the 5th Ammendment of the US Constitution?
Due process, double jeopardy, self-incrimination, private property
What is the 6th Ammendment of the US Constitution?
Trial by jury, speedy trial, and other rights of the accused.
What is the 7th Ammendment of the US Constitution?
Civil trial by jury.
What is the 8th Ammendment of the US Constitution?
Prohibition of excessive bail, as well as cruel or unusual punishment.
What is the 9th Ammendment of the US Constitution?
Protection of rights not specifically enumerated in the Bill of Rights.
What is the 10th Ammendment of the US Constitution?
Powers of states and people. Anything not in the constitution is left to the
states.
What is the 11th Ammendment of the US Constitution?
(1795): Clarifies judicial power over foreign nationals, and limits ability of
citizens to sue states in federal courts and under federal law.
What is the 12th Ammendment of the US Constitution?
(1804): Changes the method of presidential elections so that members of the
electoral college cast separate ballots for president and vice president.
What is the 13th Ammendment of the US Constitution?
(1865): Abolishes slavery and grants Congress power to enforce abolition.
What is the 14th Ammendment of the US Constitution?
(1868): Defines United States citizenship; prohibits states from abridging
citizens' privileges or immunities and right to due process and the equal
protection of the law; repeals the three-fifths compromise.
What is the 15th Ammendment of the US Constitution?
(1870): Prohibits the federal government and the states from using a
citizen's race, color, or previous status as a slave as a qualification for
voting.
What is the 16th Ammendment of the US Constitution?
(1913): Authorizes unapportioned federal taxes on income.
What is the 17th Ammendment of the US Constitution?
(1913): Establishes direct election of senators.
What is the 18th Ammendment of the US Constitution?
(1919): Prohibited the manufacturing, importing, and exporting of beverage
alcohol. Repealed by the Twenty-First Amendment.
What is the 19th Ammendment of the US Constitution?
(1920): Prohibits the federal government and the states from using a
citizen's sex as a qualification for voting.
What is the 20th Ammendment of the US Constitution?
(1933): Changes details of Congressional and presidential terms and of
presidential succession. (lame duck ammendment)
What is the 21st Ammendment of the US Constitution?
(1933): Repeals Eighteenth Amendment but permits states to retain
prohibition and ban the importation of alcohol.
What is the 22nd Ammendment of the US Constitution?
(1951): Limits president to two terms.
What is the 23rd Ammendment of the US Constitution?
(1961): Grants presidential electors to the District of Columbia.
What is the 24th Ammendment of the US Constitution?
(1964): Prohibits the federal government and the states from requiring the
payment of a tax as a qualification for voting for federal officials. (poll taxes)
What is the 25th Ammendment of the US Constitution?
(1967): Changes details of presidential succession, provides for temporary
removal of president, and provides for replacement of the vice president.
What is the 26th Ammendment of the US Constitution?
(1971): Prohibits the federal government and the states from using an age
greater than 18 as a qualification to vote.
What is the 27th Ammendment of the US Constitution?
(1992): Limits congressional pay raises. Was one of original 12 Bill of Rights.
What does Article 1 of the US Constitution Cover?
Legislative Power
What does Article 2 of the US Constitution Cover?
Executive Power
What does Article 3 of the US Constitution Cover?
Judicial Power
What does Article 4 of the US Constitution Cover?
States Powers & Limits
What does Article 5 of the US Constitution Cover?
Process of Ammendment
What does Article 6 of the US Constitution Cover?
Federal Power
What does Article 7 of the US Constitution Cover?
Process of Ratification
What was the Mayflower Compact?
(1620): First governing document of Plymoth Colony.
What was the Massachussets Body of Liberties?
(1641): First established legal code in New England. Compiled by the
Puritan minister Nathaniel Ward.
What was the English Bill of Rights?
(1689): It is one of the basic documents of English constitutional law,
alongside Magna Carta, the Act of Settlement and the Parliament Acts.
Who Wrote "Common Sense" ?
Thomas Paine. In 1776, it advocated reasons for splitting from Britain.
What was "The Rights of Man"?
Thomas Paine wrote the Rights of Man in 1791, it is a work glorifying the
French Revolution.
What are "The Federalist Papers"?
A series of 85 articles arguing for the ratification of the United States
Constitution. They were first published serially in New York City newspapers.
A compilation, called The Federalist, was published in 1788. The Federalist
Papers serve as a primary source for interpretation of the Constitution, as
they outline the philosophy and motivation of the proposed system of
government. The articles were written by James Madison, Alexander
Hamilton, and John Jay.
What political party did Alexander Hamilton start?
The Federalist party in 1792, which advocated strong national government. It
was opposed by Thomas Jefferson & James Madison's Republican party.
What were the Alien and Sedition Acts?
With war looming against a major power, France, Federalists in Congress in
1798 passed the laws to protect national security. These 4 laws limited
freedom of speech, made it possible to kick out foreign nationals, and
changed citizenship to be gained after 14 years of residence, instead of 5.
Never tested in court, but is generally accepted to be unconstitutional.
What was the Alien Registration Act?
AKA - Smith Act of 1940 made it a criminal offense for anyone to conspire to
overthrow the government. It also required all non-citizen adult residents to
register with the government. The Act is best known for its use against
political organizations and figures, mostly on the left. A series of United
States Supreme Court decisions in 1957 threw out numerous convictions
under the Smith Act as unconstitutional.
Name the countries that feed into the Nile River.
Sudan, Ethiopia, Egypt, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi,
Eritrea, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Name the countries that feed into the Amazon River.
Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela
What countries feed into the Congo River?
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, Angola,
Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Cameroon, Zambia, Burundi, Rwanda
What countries feed into the Niger River?
Nigeria, Mali, Niger, Algeria, Guinea, Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Côte
d'Ivoire, Benin, Chad
What body of water does the Danube drain into?
The Black Sea.
What countries feed into the Danube River?
Romania (28.9%), Hungary (11.7%), Austria (10.3%), Serbia and
Montenegro (10.3%), Germany (7.5%), Slovakia (5.8%), Bulgaria (5.2%),
Bosnia and Herzegovina (4.8%), Croatia (4.5%), Ukraine (3.8%), Czech
Republic (2.6%), Slovenia (2.2%), Moldova (1.7%), Switzerland (0.32%),
Italy (0.15%), Poland (0.09%), Albania (0.03%)
What countries feed into the Brahmaputra River?
India (58.0%), P.R. China (19.7%), Nepal (9.0%), Bangladesh (6.6%),
Disputed India/P.R. China (4.2%), Bhutan (2.4%)
What river expels the most water / second?
The Amazon
What countries feed into the Mekong River?
Laos, Thailand, P.R. China, Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar
What was The Berlin Conference?
1884-1885 regulated European colonisation and trade in Africa. Its outcome,
the General Act of the Berlin Conference, is often seen as the formalization
of the Scramble for Africa.
What African countries were never colonized?
Ethiopia and Liberia.
What is the world's largest desert?
Antartica. The largest hot desert is the Sahara in North Africa, which is the
size of the U.S.
Name the 3 deserts of Africa from north to south.
Sahara, Namib, Kalahari
What natural features border the Gobi Desert?
The desert basins of the Gobi are bounded by the Altay Mountains and the
grasslands and steppes of Mongolia on the north, by the Tibetan Plateau to
the southwest, and by the North China Plain to the southeast.
What countries have access to the Dead Sea?
It is on the border between the West Bank, Israel, and Jordan.
What countries have access to the Black Sea?
Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Georgia, Russia, Ukraine
What countries have access to the Caspian Sea?
Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran, Azerbaijan. Russia's Volga river
and a canal system links it to the Black Sea.
Where are the Ural Mountains?
Western Russia.
What killed more people: the black plague or colonization of america?
Colonization of America.
Which side did native americans fight on in the American Revolution?
Both, but mainly supported the British.
What was the Indian Removal Act?
(1830): A law passed by Congress in order to facilitate the relocation of
American Indian tribes living east of the Mississippi River to lands further
west. It authorized President Andrew Jackson to negotiate land-exchange
treaties with tribes living within the boundaries of existing U.S. states.
Resulted in the forcable movement of tens of thousands of native americans.
The most well known was the Trail of Tears (1838), when 4,000 Cherokees
were killed during their forced relocation.
What were the "Five Civilized Tribes"
The Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole tribes, all located
in the southeast. They were considered civilized by whites because they
followed many of their practices, such as slavery.
What was the Battle of the Little Bighorn?
(1876): Also called Custer's Last Stand, it was the most famous incident of
the Indian Wars. Cheyenne and Sioux Indians killed Custer and all of his
men.
What was Jamestown?
The first successful English colony, established in 1607 on a small river near
Chesapeake Bay. It was headed by John Smith, who befriended
Pocahontas. It was all male.
Where did the pilgrims settle?
In Massachussetts, established Plymouth in 1620.
Who established the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
The Puritans in 1629.
What year did the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty take effect? What
countries had nues then and now?
1970. U.S., U.K., China, Russia, France had them then. Today Israel,
Pakistan, and India do also.
What was the Agricultural Revolution?
Period from the early 1700s until the mid-1800s during which machines and
improved technology replaced manual labor and traditional methods in
farming.
What were the Allied Powers?
The countries of Britain, Soviet Union, United States, and France that
formed an alliance during World War II.
What were the Articles of Confederation?
The compact that was first made by the original thirteen states of the United
States and was adopted March 1, 1781, and remained the supreme law until
March 1789.
What were the Axis Powers?
A group of countries that opposed the Allied Powers in World War II,
including Germany, Italy, and Japan as well as Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania,
and Yugoslavia.
What group controlled Mexico when Spanish settlers arrived in the 16th
century?
The Aztecs.
What was the Berlin Airlift?
Airlift by U.S. in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of West Berlin
when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin.
When did the Berlin Wall exist?
1961 to 1989.
What was the Boston Massacre?
March 5, 1770, a brawl between American colonists and British soldiers
where the colonists hit the British soldiers with snowballs and the British
soldiers shot into the crowd killing 5 of the colonists.
Who were the "Buffalo Soldiers"?
Members of one of the African American regiments within the U.S. Army
after the Civil War, serving primarily in the Indian wars of the late 1860s.
What were the Camp David Accords?
Started by President Carter in 1978, a framework for peace negotiations
concerning Israeli-occupied Arab territories Jordan's West Bank, and Egypt's
Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula.
What was the Declaration of Independance?
The document recording the announcement of the second Continental
Congress on July 4, 1776, asserting the independence of the colonies from
Great Britain.
What is the difference between de facto segregation and de jure
segregation?
De facto segregation is segregation of races that actually exists, though not
by law. De jure segregation is segregation of races by law.
Who were the Democratic-Republicans?
Early political party that was unopposed in national politics through the Era
of Good Feeling; split in 1828. They advocated states powers and strict
constructionism of the constitution. Opposed Alexander Hamilton's
Federalist party.
What was the importance of Dred Scott v. Sanford?
In 1857, the Supreme Court ruled that even free Africans could not sue in a
federal court, since they were not citizens of the United States and that
slaves brought into free territory remained slaves because they were a form
of property.
What is the elastic clause?
Part of Article I of the Constitution that gives Congress authority to pass laws
in addition to those specified.
What was the Emancipation Proclimation?
Declaration issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863,
freeing the slaves in those territories still rebelling against the Union.
What was the Embargo Act of 1807?
It prohibited all international exports from American ports. It represented
President Thomas Jefferson's response to the United Kingdom's Orders in
Council (1807) and France's Continental System, which were severely
hurting America's merchant marines. Although it was designed to force the
British and French to change their commercial systems, neither country did,
and the Act was repealed in 1808. The Act failed to prevent the War of 1812.
What was the Age of Enlightenment?
It was 18th century european philosophical movement (part of Age of
Reason). Leading thinkers believed that the future could be shaped and
directed by reason. They believed that society was based on natural laws.
Thus, these thinkers challenged the power of absolute monarchs or kings
and the idea that a monarch or king ruled by divine right.
What was the Era of Good Feelings?
Period from 1815 to 1821 that followed the War of 1812 where the last
Federalist candidate was defeated and the issues of slavery were emerging
as a result of the Missouri Compromise. James Monroe defeated the last
Federalist candidate in 1816, and won unopposed in 1820.
What was the espionage act of 1917?
Passed by Congress in 1917 after the United States entered World War I;
set a $10,000 fine and 20 years imprisonment for interfering with the
recruiting of troops or the disclosure of information dealing with national
defense.
What is the definition of Fascism?
Form of government characterized by militarism, extreme nationalism, and a
oneparty dictatorship.
Describe the Federal Reserve System."The central bank of the United States; incorporates 12 Federal Reserve
branch banks and all national banks and state-charted commercial banks
and some trust companies. It was was created in 1913 by the Federal
Reserve Act. The main tasks of the Federal Reserve are:
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Who is Alan Greenspan?
Was chairman of the Fed from 1987-2006. His replacement is Ben
Bernanke.
What happened at Fort Sumter?
In 1861 Confederates attacked the fort, which led to its surrender and was
the opening engagement of the Civil War. It is located in Charleston, South
Carolina.
What was the French and Indian War?
The war that raged in North America through the late 1750's and early
1760's was but one part of the larger struggle between England and France
for dominance in world trade and naval power. The British victory in that
struggle, known in Europe as the Seven Years' War , ended the long
struggle among the three principal powers in northeastern North America:
The English, the French, and the Iroquois Confederacy, it confirmed
England's commercial supremacy and cemented its control of the settled
regions of North America.
What was the Gilded Age?
The Gilded Age (c.1876-1914) was a period of intense economic
development and wealth transfer in the United States. Following the
generation of the American Civil War and Reconstruction of the South, this
period corresponded with the Second Industrial Revolution and the greatest
economic, territorial, industrial, and population expansion in American
history. The explosion of commerce and heavy industry, supported by
mercantilist economic policies and federal railway subsidies, the innovation
of new techniques in steel production and the use of electric power, and the
continued development of the American West catalyzed dramatic social
changes, created a number of immensely wealthy businessmen, the
"Robber Barons", and also galvanized the American Labor Movement.
What was the Good Neighbor Policy?
The "Good Neighbor" policy was the policy of the United States
Administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in relation to Latin America
during 1933-45, when the active U.S. intervention of previous decades was
moderated in pursuit of hemispheric solidarity against external threats.
What was The Roosevelt Corollary?
"The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (from 1901 to 1909) was a
substantial alteration (called an ""amendment"") of the Monroe Doctrine by
U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. The U.S. would now consider Latin
America as an agency for expanding U.S. commercial interests in the region,
along with its original stated purpose of keeping European hegemony from
the hemisphere. In essence, Roosevelt's Monroe Doctrine would be the
basis for a use of economic
What is a graduated income tax?
An income tax that takes proportionately more from higher wage earners.