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Semester Review part 1
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History
8th Grade
01/11/2012

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Main idea of the Enlightenment
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reason can be used to improve people's quality of life
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Navigation Acts required colonist to trade with
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England
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Boston Massacre gained its name and reputation
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propaganda used by Samuel Adams and other Boston protestors
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On December 25, 1776, Washington and 2,400 Patriot soldiers surprised the enemy at Trenton
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crossing Delaware River at midnight
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What did Magna Carta and English Bill of Rights do?
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limited powers of monarch
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Under Constitutional requirement for apportionment, if state gains some representatives in House
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another state must lose some to maintain a total of 435
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Fourth amendment restriacts authorities from searaching a person's home
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without search warrant
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Anyone found "not guilty" in criminal trial
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cannot experience double jeopardy, or be tried again for same crime in same jurisdiction
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loose construction
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Alexander Hamilton felt federal gaovernment can take actions that the Constitution does not forbid
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Americans favored Pinckney's Treaty over Jay's Treaty because
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Pinckney's Treaty opened western frontier to further expansion
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propaganda
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stories and images designed to support a particular point of view
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Crispus Attacks
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first American to die in the colonists fight for freedom in Boston Massacre
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