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Who wrote the Canterbury Tales? |
Geoffrey Chaucer |
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What is an indulgence? |
a grant by the pope of remission of the temporal punishment in purgatory still due for sins after absolution. The unrestricted sale of indulgences by pardoners was a widespread abuse during the later Middle Ages. |
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Who wrote the Ninety-Five Theses? |
Martin Luther |
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Why was education becoming widespread during the Renaissance? |
Due to the mass printing of books and such. |
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What replaced Lutheranism as the main Protestant faith? |
Catholicism |
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What is predestination? |
the divine foreordaining of all that will happen, especially with regard to the salvation of some and not others. It has been particularly associated with the teachings of St. Augustine of Hippo and of Calvin. |
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Calvinism is the belief in what? |
that the Bible is the Word of God and therefore the final authority in belief and practice. |
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Humanism is the belief that through education we? |
aspire and grow as people. |
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What were the Ninety Five Theses? |
The Ninety-five Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences were written by Martin Luther and are widely regarded as the initial catalyst for the Protestant Reformation. |
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When did the Renaissance take place? |
1350-1550 |
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Machiavelli was the first to believe what? |
The virtu of a people, he believed, depends entirely on education, while that of a prince or leader tends to be inborn but shaped by education. |
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Who came up with gravity? |
Sir Isaac Newton |
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Who is the father of rationalism? |
René Descartes |
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When did the Enlightenment take place? |
1700-1790. |
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Who came up with checks and balances? |
James Madison |
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Who was the greatest figure of the Enlightenment? |
Voltaire |
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What is laissez-faire? |
a policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering. |
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Who was a child prodigy composer but died poor? |
Mozart |
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What were the main 2 countries of the 7 Years War? |
Britain against France |
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Where was the main area conflict in the 7 Years War? |
The central conflict of the war was Britain against France. The greatest conflict took place in North America. |
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What was the unfair tax called that Britain put on the colonists? |
Stamp Act |
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Whose ideas was the Constitution based on? |
Great Britain |
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What was the main problem with the Articles of Confederation? |
The main problem was that it lacked the power to deal with the new nation's problems. The main weakness was congress had no power to tax. |
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How many branches of gov't are there? |
3 |
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How many states had to approve the Constitution before it took effect? |
9 |
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What are the Bill of Rights? |
The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution |
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Where was the last battle of the American Revolution? |
Battle of Yorktown |
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Who was the King of France when the Revolution first began? |
King Louis XVI |
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What was The Bastille? |
The Bastille was a fortress in Paris, known formally as the Bastille Saint-Antoine. It played an important role in the internal conflicts of France and for most of its history was used as a state prison by the kings of France. |
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What year did Napoleon come to power? |
1799 |
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What is nationalism? |
patriotic feeling, principles, or efforts. |
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What did Napoleon's Civil Code do? |
The code forbade privileges based on birth, allowed freedom of religion, and specified that government jobs should go to the most qualified. The Civil Code also gave women less power. |
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Why did Napoleon's army fall? |
Because of the survival of Britain and its navy and because of a new sense of nationalism. |
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Where was Napoleon defeated for the final time? |
Waterloo, Germany, in 1815 |
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Where did the Industrial Revolution begin? |
England, Great Britain |
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What was the most important development in America during the Industrial Revolution? |
Railroads. Steel, chemicals, electricity and petroleum. Or a world economy |
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Who said 'the gov't cannot endure permanently half slave/half free?' |
Abraham Lincoln |
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What does secede mean? |
withdraw formally from membership in a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization. |
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Who was the President of the Confederate States? |
Jefferson Davis |
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Who was the first state to secede? |
South Carolina |
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When did fighting in the Civil War begin? |
April 12, 1861 |
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Who was the General of the Union Army? |
Ulysses S. Grant |
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Where did the South surrender? |
Appomattox, Courthouse |
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Who shot Abraham Lincoln? |
John Wilkes Booth |
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Who did America fight during the War of 1812? |
Great Britain. |
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Who wrote the Star Spangled Banner? |
Francis Scott Key |
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Who developed the Periodic Table? |
Dmitri Mendeleev |
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Who proposed the germ theory of disease? |
Girolamo Fracastoro |
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What's the difference in socialism and capitalism? |
The fundamental difference between capitalism and socialism is the scope of government intervention in the economy. |
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Who is the father of Socialism? |
Karl Marx |
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What is the first BoR? |
Freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition. |
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What is the second BoR? |
Right to keep and bear arms in order to maintain a well-regulated militia. |
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What is the third BoR? |
No quartering of soldiers. |
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What is the fourth BoR? |
Freedom from unreasonable searches/seizures. |
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What is the fifth BoR? |
Right to due process of law, freedom from self-incrimination, double jeopardy. |
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What is the sixth BoR? |
Rights of accused persons, e.g., right to a speedy and public trial. |
