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History
8th Grade
05/19/2010

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Who provided the labor for Souther rice fields?
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enslaved Africans
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Who was the largest fighting force in the colonies in 1777?
Definition
the British
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What movement influenced the Constitution's architects?
Definition
the enlightenment
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What is the national debt?
Definition
the amount the nation's government owes
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Who decided the election of 1800?
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House of Representatives
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Where did the American's Industrial Revolution begin to take root?
Definition
New England
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What did Stephen A. Douglas propose?
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he proposed letting the people decide about slavery through popular sovereignty
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What is the book Uncle Tom's Cabin about?Who is the author?
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it is by Harriet Beech Stowe and about the brutal cruel system of slavery
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What was the battle of Shiloh named after?
Definition
a small church
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Habeas Corpus
Definition
guarantees accused individuals the right to a hearing before being jailed
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Reconstruction
Definition
the period of rebuilding after the civil war
Term
what restored full rights to people who supported the Democrates through the Amnesty Act?
Definition
Political Balance
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14th amendment
Definition
states that no state could take away a citizen's life, liberty, and property without due process of the law
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who founded the national negro business league
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Booker T. Washington
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Where did the first action of the Spanish- American war take place?
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in the philippines
Term
what was the cost of world war I?
Definition
$32 billion
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the gross national product
Definition
the total value of all goods and services produced in a country
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who won teh election of 1928
Definition
Herbert Hoover
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recession
Definition
an economic down turn
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what promise did F.D Roosevelt make when speaking about world war II?
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"your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars"
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what did both the jews and arabs claim in the middle east?
Definition
the palestine
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The marshall plan
Definition
helped rebuild the countries of western europe
Term
The U-2 incident
Definition
refroze the cold war
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The first of a series of racial riots that hit cities in 1965 occurred in which city?
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Watts in Los Angeles
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where was the first foreign crisis President JF Kennedy faced?
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Cuba
Term
Lech Walesa
Definition
the polish leader of solidarity
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NAFTA
Definition
the trade agreement with Canada, Mexico, and the US
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who were the largest empire of the early american civilization?
Definition
The Inca
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Who were The people of the Plains?
Definition
the native people that were skilled in riding horses
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Who were the leaders of the war hawks?
Definition
Clay and Calhoun
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What helped A. Jackson win the Presidency of 1828
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The battle of New Orleans
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The south Pass
Definition
the main route settlers took to Oregon
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Sam Houston
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the commander in chief of the Texas' forces
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why was the telegraph invented?
Definition
to help communication
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Kansas had what type of government?
Definition
both pro and anti slavery government
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what did the the Dred Scott decision mean?
Definition
meant the constitution protected slavery
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Why was President A. Jackson voted to be impeached by The House of Representatives?
Definition
he violated the Tenure of Office Act
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The Ghost Dance
Definition
it is what Wovoka, a prophet, for the Sioux Indians did to help them regain their former greatness
Term
The Souther Alliance
Definition
the network of farmers that rallied against railroads and "money Power"
Term
Who founded the Immigrants' Protective League?
Definition
Grace Abbot and Julia Lathrop
Term
Why did the Treaty of Versailles Wilson go on a national speaking tour?
Definition
to rally support
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Why did Hoover authorize spending on public works?
Definition
to combat the Great Depression
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Who won the 1948 presidential election?
Definition
Harry Truman
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What did people call the generation gap of the 1950's?
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it was called the differing attitudes of the young and old
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Who did the Ngo Dinh Diem's Government take the rights away from?
Definition
the Buddhist in South Vietnam
Term
the draft
Definition
is the selective service system that supplies soldiers for war
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What did the generation gap create?
Definition
it created a division in America
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What did the Yom Kippur war cause?
Definition
it caused the Arab oil producing states to impose an embargo on oil shipments to the US
Term
Trade deficit
Definition
when the value of foreign imports exceeds the value of domestic exports
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Was the Tierra part of the C. Columbus' fleet?
Definition
no
Term
Who became the leader of education reform?
Definition
Horace Mann
Term
Texas Struggled with(blank)to gain its independance
Definition
Mexico
Term
When did The question of becoming a free state or a slave state applied?
Definition
when a new state was entering the US
Term
13th amendment
Definition
abolished slavery
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How did the US expand into the pacific?
Definition
by acquiring Midway and Hawaii
Term
Reformers
Definition
groups of seeking to correct injustice and solve social problems
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The New Deal
Definition
helped the nation pull out of the Great depression
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American Indian Movement
Definition
the Native american organization that protest broken treaties and civil right violations
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In the 2000 election(blank)or(blank)needed 25 electoral votes from Florida
Definition
Al Gore Or G. Bush
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