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Increased debt + Increased home ownership |
leads to a drop in interest rates
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Dawes Act (1887)
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Passed by U.S. Congress; encouraged Native Americans to abandon thribal ways and have privately owned land
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Primary Sources and Online resources
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Useful Sources used to studying the motives behind the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan in WWII
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What caused the partition in Pakistan (1947)?
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Demands of Muslim nationalists in India for an independent state.
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Code of Hammurabi and the Justinian Code of Byzantine Empire both...
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Provided a consistent rule of law.
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Representative assemblies
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were fully developed during the American colonial period.
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Petition for a redress of grievances
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consititional right
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Abolitionist Movement
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Strongest support for the cause of women's rights in the 1800s
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Parlimentary disadvantage to the bipartisan system
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Greater difficulty building governing coalitions
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The outcome of the Opium War showed that in the 19th century....
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the Chinese government was no longer strong enough to resist western demands for trading rights
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U.S. Federal Reserve directly influences
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American monetary supply
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Tropical Rainforest threats
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1) government policies that encourage road building
2) loggers interested in selling wood products 3) landless peasants seeking economic opportunity |
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Popular Democratic campaign costs solution
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use public funds to pay for political campaigns
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Environmental conditions in Savanna biome
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Extensive grassland and moderate rainfall
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John Maynard Keynes Fiscal policy leader
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Lyndon Johnson
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Effect of the decline of the Roman Empire
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Western Europe entered a period of disorder and chaos
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Idea of the Bill of Rights
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Individuals must not allow their freedom to be swallowed by an allpowerful government
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Camill di Cavour, Giuseppe Mazzini, and Otto Von Bismarck...
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appealed to nationalistic sentiment
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Magna Carta and the Glorious Revolution contributed to the development of ...
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parliamentary democracy
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Political Conseuqence of the Korean War
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the increase in the powers of Congress over foreign policy
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Gross National Product
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Barometer of the nation's economic growth
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FDR New Deal Succeeded because
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they accelerated the governments move away from laissez-faire policies
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Factors that helped to limit English monarchy power
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Magna Carta, Glorious Revolution, Petition of Right
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The issuance of King James II's Charter of Liberties and Privileges allowed New York
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limited self-government
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The construction of the Erie Canal caused
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1) denial of the British fruits of western trade
2) open up the Ohio Valley to trade 3) ensure that New York City would be the most important port on the East Coast |
