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The ______ began in __________ Italy in the late middle ages. |
Renaissance Florence |
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The Renaissance included advances in________, _______,___________,and most importantly,________. People such as Michael Angela and Leonardo Davince, versed in all these areas were known as _______. |
Sicence Eduation Politics Art Renaissance Men |
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The advances of the renaissance were made by the advancement of what process? |
Printing. |
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The industrial revolution started in ______ with the construction of the first_________ in ______. |
England Cottonmill 1733 |
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Industrial revolution: A new ________ system was created for textiles meaning works only needed to do _____ in a series of tasks. This ________ of _________ increased productivity. |
Factory one division labor |
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During the industrial revolution, social ______ caused people to move to the cities and the middle-class gained more __________ power. This also created __________, _____________ and poverty. |
mobility political Crime Disease Poverty |
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Pushing back against the industrical revolution, the _______________ led a small rebellion and were known to ______________ machinery. However, most people were will to endure________ for _______. |
Ludites Vandalize Hardship Hope |
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The _________ never succeeded in attracting settlers to their territories. |
French |
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Eventually the French ceded their southern posessions to ___________ and New Orleans, founded in _____________. |
Spain 1718 |
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___________ founded Quebec |
Champlain |
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French exploerersby the names of _________ and ___________ were the first to travel down the _________ in the year ________. |
Jolliett Marquett Mississippi 1673 |
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The French explorer, _________ explored the Great Lakes, ____________ and __________ in the years ______ to _______. He clamed the areas from The Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico and from the Appalachians to the Rockies, for France. |
De La Salle Illinois Mississippi 1679 1682 |
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The _______ claimed and explored huge sections of the United states after the voyages of _____________ in 1492 |
Spanish Christopher Columbus |
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The First European in Florida (Spanish) was _______ in the year______ and founded the oldest Eurpopean settlement, __________. He also discovered the ________and searched for the ________. |
Ponce De Leon 1513 Peurto Rico Gulf Stream Fountain of Youth |
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The Spanish Explorer, _______ charted the________ in 1519 and Claimed ___________ for Spain. |
Alonso Pineda Gulf of Mexico Texas |
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The Spanish Explorer ________ docked in Tampa Bay in __________, claimed Florida for Spain and then sailed the Gulf Coast. |
Navaraez 1528 |
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The Spanish explorer ________ got lost on foot in _______ and the Moorish slave _________ led him to Mexico. |
de Vaca Texas Esteban |
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The Spanish Exploreer__________, while searching for gold in the year _______ became the first European to explore Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. |
Coronado 1540 |
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The Spanish explorer, _________ was the first European to explore the ____________ United States from Talahasee to Natchez. |
De Soto South eastern |
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In the year ________, ____________ landed in Rhoanoke Island and sent ________ to the mainland, which they named Virginia. Two attempts to form settlements failed. The first permanent English colony was founded by _____________ and was called_______ in the year _________. |
1585 Sir Walter Raleigh Arthur Barlow Captain John Smith Jamestown 1607 |
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The _________ Company and the _________ Company successfully colonized other Virginia sites after Jamestown. By 1619, Virginia had a House of ________. The first legislative body to be formed in the new world. King __________ of England correctly predicted it would only lead to trouble for his nation. |
Virginia Chessapeake Bay Burgesses King James the first |
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In Virginia, the first Colony of _________ was a poor location. It's strict leader, ____________ helped the colony survive, but a large number of settlers died during the winter of ________, which became known as the __________. In the end, what saved Virginia was _______. |
Virginia Captain John Smith 1609-10 Starving time Tobacco |
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Virginia. In the year _______ a dutch warship arrived with 20 indentured servants. In the year ______, Virginia would be the first colony to legalize slavery. |
1619 1660 |
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Virginia officially became a Royal colony in the year________. This became in part because the ________ which previously admistered affairs, went bankrupt and the King wanted increased control. During this time, wealthy colonists claimed coastal areas, pushing poor people further inland where they were prey to ________ and were under-represented in the house of ______. |
1624 The Virginia Company Indians Burgesses |
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A group of frustrated settlers, led by ________ burned Jamestown to the ground. ________ as it became known, was a harbinger of things to come. |
Nathaniel Bacon Bacon's rebellion |
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The _______ established the Colony of Massachusetts Bay in ______. They hoped to _________ the Church of ________. and then return to Europe with an improved religion. |
Puritans 1630 Purify England |
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The _________ Bay puritans were more successful than other Fledgling colonies. They brought enough _________. They arrived in the _________ They had good leadership, including ____________.They _______, cut __________ and trapped __________. |
Massachusetts Supplies Springtime John WInthrop Fished Timber Furs |
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The local government of Massachusetts bay was inextricably intertwined with the ______. |
Church |
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In the Massachusetts Bay colony, only members of the _____ were allowed to vote. They established a ______ commonwealth that would last for ______ years. During that time ___________ law was the law of the community. They had a general suspicion of ________. |
Church Bible 50 Old Testament Democracy |
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Out of the puritans, ___________ eventually established the ________ church. The puritans generally felt that _______ were incapable of governing themselves as Democracy was inefficient. |
Roger Williams Baptist Common people |
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_________ was banished from Massachusetts in the year _________ because he called for separation of church and state.He formed the ___________ colony in the year_____ that had 800 settlers including Anne Hutchinson and her Antinomians who attacked clerical authority. |
Roger Williams 1636 Rhode Island 1647 Rhode Island |
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Maryland was established by ____________ in the year _________. In the hopes of gaining refuge for __________. |
Lord Baltimore 1632 English Catholics |
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In the year _________, William ______ received a royal charter for the establishment of ___________ |
1681 Penn Pennsylvania |
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The American revolution occured because by ________ many Americans had never been to England. During the French Indian War from ______ to ________ Americans, Including George Washington served in the British Army, but were treated as _______. |
1775 1754 1763 Inferiors |
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Leading up to the American Revolution, it was feared the Anglican church might try to expand_______ and inhibit religeous freedom. Also, Heavy taxes, including the _______ and _______ acts were created soley to create revenue for the Crown and the colonies had no representation. |
Colonies Sugar Stamp |
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Protest group headed by Sam Adams that incited the revolution: |
Sons of Liberty |
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On March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired on a crowd and killed five people. This is known as the___________. |
Boston Massacre |
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American revolution: ___________ were set up throughout the colonies to transmit revolutionary ideas and unite the colonies |
Committees of Correspondence |
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The Sons of Liberty dressed in mohawks and dumped tea on this date: __________. |
12/5/1773 |
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The first continental congress was held in the year_______ to resist England. |
1774 |
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The Shot heard around the world happened in April of ______, when minutemen met British soldiers and made them retreat. They were on their way to _________ to confiscate _________. |
1775 Concord arms. |
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The original 13 Colonies were |
Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia |
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The major turning points in the American Revolution were the _____ continental congress to Establish a continental Army and choose Washington, _____ published by Thomas Paine, The declaration of independence, the Alliance with France in ______ by Ben _______. and the Treaty of ________ in ________, signaling the end of the war. |
Second Common Sense 1778 Franklin Paris 1783 |
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In April, ________, the battles of ______ and ______ were the first of the Revolutionary war. |
1775 Lexington Concord |
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The British forced Americans to retreat, but lost half their troops in the proccess at the Battle of ________ in what month and year? |
Bunker Hill June, 1775 |
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American revolution. The first colonial victory was when washington sailed accross the river at Trention, New Jersery and surprise the British on what date? |
December 26,1776 |
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On October __, ______, General Cornwall of the British surrendered after being defeated at the battle of __________, Virginia |
19, 1781 Yorktown |
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The articles of confederation were sent to the colonies for ratification in _____. It had two problems, no taxation and no central government. |
1777 |
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In 1787 a convention was called in America to write the new _______. Those who opposed it were the ________ and wanted a bill of rights. There leaders, ____, _____ and _______ wrote the ______ papers |
Constitution Anti-Federalists AlexanderHamilton John May James Madison Federalist |
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The American constitution created a ______ legislature. With States represented in the Senate and the population represented in the house. |
Bicameral |
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The American Constitution went into effect in what year? |
1789 |
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______ from 12 of the 13 __________ of America met from May 25 to September 17,1787 at what has become known as the _______________. |
Delegates States Constitutional Convention |
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The original purpose the constitutional convention was to ________ the ________ of _________. It quickly became apparent that just revision would not provide a workable government structure. They vowed to keep all proceedings ______ and set out to draft the _________/ |
Revise Articles Confederation Secret Constitution |
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France, with Napoleon's war debts, made the ______ with America. In 1803 President______ sent The future President______ to negotiate the sale of the entire french territory for $____ million dollars. It doubled America's territory. |
Louisianna Purchase Thomas Jefferson James Monroe 15 |
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the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable is known as? |
Manifest Destiny |
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After the Louisianna Purchase, President __________ sent _______ and _______ to map the new territory and find a means to the Pacific ocean. |
Thomas Jefferson Meriwether Lewis William Clark |
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A war between Britan and France affected America. Jefferson imposed an ______ against both. France was lifted, but Britain became aggressive and the _______ of _______ resulted. Britan ended it's war with France and made peace with America in _____ under the treaty of ______. |
Embargo war 1812 1815 Ghent |
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Conceived by President ___________ in 1823, the ____________________ was a foreign policy that warned European powers to cease colinization of Central and South America In return, America would not meddle in Europe. |
Monroe Monroe Docterine |
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Manifest destiny led to the _____-American war in the year______ to________. After the war, America got California, Texas and much of the Southwest. |
Mexican 1846 1848 |
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A compromise that kept slave and free states balanced in the North and the South was the _________ compromise. |
Missouri |
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3/5th compromise was for slaves and representation of population in the ________. |
House of Representatives |
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Andrew Jackon's election is considered to be the beginning of the modern _________ and the start of the ______ party. |
Political party Democratic |
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Jeffersonian Democracy, a system governed by middle and upper class educated property holders was replaced by a ________________ democracy, a system that allowed universal white, male suffrage. |
Jacksonian |
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The __________ of 1830, took relocated indian, including Cherokees from Georgia (trail of tears) |
Indian Removal Act |
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Under Jackson it was settled that states must comply with the feds and _______ was no longer available to the states. |
Nullification |
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The _______ party existed from _______ to _____ and started in opposition to _________ authoritarian policies |
Whig 1833 1856 Jackson's |
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The split over slavery caused the ______ party to disolve. |
Whig |
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______ was the first to write about Native Americans - Last of the Mohicans, The Deerslayer |
James Cooper |
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19th century american writer and leader of the transcendentalist movement was? |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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The novelist____________ wrote, THe Scarlet Letter, the House of Seven Gables, Young Goodman Brown and The Minister's Black Well. |
Nathaniel |
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___________ wrote Mobey Dick, Billy Budd and Bartleby the Srivener |
Herman Melville |
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The Raven, The Pit and The Pendulem, The Tell-tale Heart and Annebelle Lee were written by |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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_________ was an abolitionist and Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. |
Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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19th Century writer, and naturalist who wrote Walden and Civil Disobedience |
Henry David Thoreau |
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19th Century poet and essayist who wrote O' Captain and Leaves of Grass |
Walt Whitman |
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A somen's rights and abolishonist activist who lectured on suffrage and wage writes |
Susan B. Anthony |
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19th century leader who created the first mental illness asylums |
Dorthea Dix |
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Escaped 19th century slave who became abolishonist leader and government official |
Frederick Douglas |
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Editor of the 19th century liberator the leading anti-slavery newspaper. |
William Lloyd Garrison |
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19th century leader that made public education a right as americans. |
Horace Mann |
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Leader of the mormons when they fled religeous persecussion |
Brigham Young |
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Seneca falls convesntion of 1848 demanding woman's sufferage was led by what two people? |
Elizabeth Stanton Lucretta Mott |
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The ____________ law of 1850 allowed slave owners to go into free states to get back slaves. The Compromise of 1850 divided us into _____ and slave states. |
Fugitive Slave Free |
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_________ act of 1854 repealled the Missouri Compromise |
Kansas-Nebraska |
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_________ vs. Standford was decided by the supreme court in _____ saying Feds had no rights to exclude slavery from territories. |
Dread-Scott 1857 |
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President of the Confederacy. Former Senator |
Jefferson Davis |
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Commander of the Union Army that declined and led Virginia's confederate force |
Robert E. Lee |
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Ulysis S. Grant was the commander of the ______ army. |
Union |
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_______ was the period from 1865 to 1877 during which the South was under strict control of the U.S. Government. |
Reconstruction |
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The _______ amendment declaired slavery illegal. |
13th |
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_______ amendment ratified states and entered them into congress and made all persons born or naturalized able to vote |
14th |
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_______ amendment made it illegal to deny a vote based on race. |
15h |
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__________ was built from 1865 to 1969 and was ________ miles long. It reached ________ miles by 1910 |
transcontinental railroad 35,000 24,000 |
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___________ mining toolk place in the west from ____ to _____. |
Gold and silver 1850 1875 |
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The large scale enterprise, begining about 1860 was ________ and brought wheat farming, known as the _______, to the high plains. |
cattle ranching Bread basket |
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The ________ age from ______ to ______ was so named because of the enormous wealth concentrated to a few opulent families. This was the time when huge mansions were built in RI, and great lodges built in the mountains for families such as the Vanderbuilts, Ascots and Rokefellers |
Guilded age 1870 1890 |
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During the guilded age, few men controlled larger industries. The were known as________. To curb control, congress created the ________ and ________. |
Robber barrons Interstate Commerce act Sherman Anti trust act |
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The anti-catholic immegrant backlash in the late 1800s led to the creation of ________ and the _______. |
Know-nothing party Klu Klux Klan |
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The _______ of labor formed in ________, backed by labor protests and immegrant rights, and was replaced by the American Federation of Labor. |
Knights 1878 |
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THe time from 1890 to 1920 is known as the ________ era. During this time, we attempted to export our social norm to the rest of the world. This included our ________ policy with China in _______. |
Progressive 1900 |
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After world war I, the decade of _______ concentrated on domestic afairs |
Optimism |
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World war I begain in ______ in which the allies (britain, Italy, France, Serbia, Russia, Greece, Italy and Romania fought against Germany, Austria-Hungary, bulgaria and Turkey. The US. Joined in _____. and the war ended in ______. |
1914 1917 1918 |
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The Russian revolution, causing them to withdraw from WWI was in _______. |
1917 |
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__________campaigned on the slogan, he kept us out of war. But, in 1915 American's were killed when the Germans torpedoed the british ship______. He later joined the war in _________. |
Woodrow Wilson Lusitania 1917 |
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WW II began in _____. on ________, 1941, Japan attacked and the US entered the war. |
1939 December 7 |
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Cold war. The __________ docterine was a policy designed to protect free peoples everywhere. It happened in? |
Truman 1947 |
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The ________ devoted 12 billion to rebuiled Europe in ____. |
Marshall Plan 1948 |
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The __________ blockade in 1948 and 1949 provided air supply drops when the Soviets tried to starve out ___________. |
Berlin West Berlin |
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NATO was formed in _________, making an attack on the U.S. or _____________, an attack on both |
1949 Europe |
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The __________ in 1950 - 1953 devided it into a communist North and a Democratic South. |
Korean War |
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Mcarthy the black lister's area of anti-communism was from ______ to _______. |
1950 1954 |
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The Cuban Missle Crisis was in _______. |
1961 |
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The Vietnam war was from _______ to ________. |
1964 1973 |
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The 1960s brought about major legislation including ______ rights act, ________ Quality Act, the Peacore and the war on ________. |
Civil Water Poverty |
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The six basic principles of the constitution are: |
Popular Sovereignty Limited Government Separation of Powers Checks and Balances Judicial Review Federalism |
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_____ is a classic government form where local lors are loyal to the King. |
Feudalism |
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Bill of rights was abased on the principles established in the ________ in 1215. |
Magna Carta |
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Amending the constitution requires ______ votes in each house of congress and ratified by _____ votes of state legislatures. |
2/3 3.4 |
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The constution can be ammened by four methods. They are |
Congres 2/3 and states 3/4 in a regular session A special session of the above A nations convention called by congress Special convention |
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19th Amendment prohibits the right to vote based on _______ it was ratified in _______. |
Gender 1920 |
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23rd ammendment added D.C. voters in the year_________ |
1964 |
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Voting changed to 18 with the ______ amdendment in the year _________. |
26th 1971 |
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__________ vs. Madison established judicial review for the Supreme court in _______. |
Marburry 1803 |
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Brown V. Board of Ed, a supreme court decision in________, ruled segregation was a violation of the Equal protection clause and separate, but equal was unconstitutional. |
1954 |
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Miranda vs. __________ supreme court case in______ made miranda rights the law. |
Arizona 1966 |
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Social studies terms to remember: _____ based learning. teacher models, guides and poses starter questions. a form of it where students learn through problem solving is_________ learning. Focusing on why, encouraging related questions and Blooms taxonomy are all part of ________ questions for learning. |
Inquiry Constructivist Essential questions |
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Learning methods that utilize concepts of analysis, procedure, processes, etc. is _________ taxonomy. |
Bloom's |
