Gace Study Guide For Ss

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history causation

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the concept that events in history are linked to one another by an endless chain of cause and effect

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What was the long-term importance of the Mayflower Compact?

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It established a model of small, town-based gov that was adopted throughout the New England colonies

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prehistory

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before the development of writing

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feudalism

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a social system in which the wealthy protected the weak in return for labor and service

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Black death

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an outbreak of plague that killed about one-third of the European population during the 14th century

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Scientific revolution

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the period beginning in the 16th century that was dominated by scientific study, particularly applied to the study of physics

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Agriculture revolution

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experimentation that resulted in the increasd producution of crops as well as a new and more technical approach to the management of agriculture

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Industrial revolution

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the development of power-driven machinery (fuled by coal and steam)

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Information revolution

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the sweeping chnages during the latter half of the 20th century as a result of technological advances and a new respect for the knowledge provided by trained, skilled, and expereinced professionals in many fields

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Code of Hammurabi

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a Babylonian code of laws

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scholar-officals

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a class of career gov officials who functioned between the population and the gov

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stamp act

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the first direct tax on British colonists in America

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Bill of rights

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first ten amendments to the US Constitution that spell out limist on governmental authority

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New south

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a term sometimes used to describe the South after the Civil War; it refers to the south no longer dependent on slave labor and based on industry instead

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Jim Crow Laws

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laws enacted after the Civil War that resulted in the segration of whites and blacks, with blacks being forced to use inferior facilites

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What caused the end of the fedual manorial system?

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the Black Plague

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Enlightenment

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Intellecutal movement during the period of North American colonization that contributed to the development of public education and the founding of the first colleges and universities

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Who started the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?

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Martin Luther King Jr, Rev T.J. Jemison, and Ella Baker

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Who did James Oglethorpe bring to America to colonize the new land?

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Prisoners so they could escape prison and start over in the New World.

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What contributed to the severity of the Great Depression?

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An influx of "Oakies" - people from Oklahoma were forced to California becaues the Dust Bowl destoryed their area. The influx of people seeking jobs in CA made things worse.

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What is the most famous Native American tribe and why?

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Algonquians because it was one of the first to interact with the newly arrived English settlers in Plymouth and other places.

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Who were some of the famous people in the indian tribe Algonquians?

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Squanto, Pocahontas, Powhatan, Tecumseh, and Black Hawk.

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Manifest destiny

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the nineteenth-century doctrine that the United States had the right and duty to exapand throughout the North American continent.

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Periodization

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the practice of dividing time into a number of discrete periods of blocks of time

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Missouri compromise

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congressional solution to the addition of slave stsates to the union; it forbade slavery to areas north of latitude 36 30 N

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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congressional act that allowed the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery; it repealed the Missouri Compromise

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Marshall plan

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US program for rebuilding the economic foundation of Western Europe following WW2

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Truman doctrine

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President Harry Truman's foreign policy declaring the US "leader of the free world"

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Cold war

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the state of political tension and military rivalry between the Soviet Union and the West from the end of WW2 to the 1980's

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Detente

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the easing of tensions or strained relations between rivals

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What party organizations developed soon after the inauguration of Washington?

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Democrats, republicans, and nationalists

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What was the name of the cultural revival after the Civial War?

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The Harlem Renaissance. Many african-americans had gone north to Harlem in NY city. The music, art, and literature gave this community its name.

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What is one reason the Europeans did not come to the New World?

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to establish trade

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What was the most important reason for Westward Expansion?

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Economics

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The "divine right" of kings was the key political characteristic of:

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The Age of Absolutism.

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What was one of the reasons that the US almost completely stopped all imigration (during the 1920s)?

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Plentiful cheap, unskilled labor was no longer needed by industrialists

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What is not a result of WW2?

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Economic depressions and slow resumption of trade and financial aid.