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HISTORY

What is Leif Ericson

landed on the shores of N. America on A.D. 1000, 500 years before Columbus

What is hunter-gatherers

nomadic actions of people who crossed Asia and came into North and South America

What is Tribes

multiple bands living together

What is "Enclosure Movement"

English farmers began to produce instead of causing unenployment

What is Roanoke

founded in 1587

What is Bering Strait

seperates Asia and N. America; most likely crossing point for Natives coming to New World

What is brought Christianity and medical advancements

Name the poistive effects of the Europeans on the Natives

What is Federations

multiple Tribes coming together

What is religious, political, and economic freedoms

Reasons for English colonation

What hyperinflation

caused by the introduction of Spanish gold and silver coming to the New World

What is savage view point

states thal all the Indian civilizations were uncivilized, but this was proven false

What is showed violence to Natives

Name the negative effects of the Europeans on the Natives

What is Powhatan

chief of Algonquin Indians

What is gentlemen(not prepared) and commoners(did all the work)

2 initial groups that came to Jamestown

What is Roanoke

organized by Sir Walter Raleigh

What is Tree of Peace

A.K.A. Iroque League of Nations

What is Mayans(Mexico), Aztecs(Mexico), Incas(Peru)

name the three complex Native civilizations

What is Jamestown

first permanent English colony in the New World

What is Roanoke

first English child born here (Virginia Dare)

What is Roanoke

governor was John White

What is anthropology

study of human culture

What is bands

smallest living unit of Indians in the New World, 25-500 people

What is Jamestown

founded in 1607, A.K.A. Virginia colony

What is Roanoke

A.K.A. The Lost Colony, off the coast of North Carolina

What is Common store house system

communal living system in Jamestown, where the people share what they produce: caused starvation

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25 questions / People Religion Related Enter Category Socialization Key figures in French/Indian War

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People

Religion Related

Enter Category

Socialization

Key figures in French/Indian War

Who is Ferdinando Gorges

Was known as the "Father of English Colonization in North America”, was an early English colonial entrepreneur and founder of the Province of Maine in 1622.

What are French Huguenots

A French Protestant.

What was King William's War

The first of the French and Indian Wars between France and England for supremacy in North America.

What is Public Education

A school that is maintained at public expense for the education of the children of a community or district.

Who is Jeffrey Amherst

A prime contributor to the British victory over the French in Canada in the French and Indian War, but later his reputation suffered a blow in that letters were found where he attempted to have the Indians infected with smallpox by providing them infected blankets since it was known they had no resistance to smallpox.

Who is Peter Stuyvesant

Last Dutch colonial administrator of New Netherland which is now present day New York; in 1664 he was forced to surrender the colony to England.

What is Half-way Covenant

Religious concept that proposed that second-generation members of the puritan church be granted the same privilege of baptism (but not communion) as had been granted to the first generation.

What was Queen Anne's War

This was the second of four wars in North America known collectively as the French and Indian Wars. France ceded the Hudson Bay territory, Newfoundland, and Nova Scotia to Great Britain. France kept Cape Breton Island and the islands of the St. Lawrence.

What is Old Field School

A rural elementary school often built in an exhausted corn or tobacco field and common in the South before the Civil War

Wh o is General Braddock

British general who lost an intense battle at Fort Duquesne during the French and Indian War.

Who is William Penn

Englishman and Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania.

What are New Lights

A religious movement, led by Jonathan Edwards, that propounded the doctrine of sanctification by faith alone.

What was the French and Indian War

War fought between Great Britain and its two enemies, the French and the Indians of North America. Most of the battles were in Canada.

What are Artisans

A worker in a skilled trade, esp. one that involves making things by hand.

Who is Marquis de Montcalm

French commander in charge of all French troops in Canada. Greatest success was in the taking of Fort Ticonderoga in July 1758.

What are William and Mary

Joint monarchs of England; William III and Mary II.

Who is Jonathan Edwards

America's most important and original philosophical theologian.

What was King George's War

Name given to the third of the four French and Indian Wars 1744–1748 which involved a fight with Austria as well

What is Social Stratification

A concept involving the "classification of persons into groups based on shared socio-economic conditions .

Who is William Pitt

British Prime Minister who waged war on France and During the Seven Years War (1756-63) he attacked French possessions and succeeded in driving France out of Canada.

Who is John Singleton Copley

German-born colonial printer and journalist whose acquittal (1735) of libel charges in New York City established a legal precedent for freedom of the press.

What are Old Lights

A member of a conservative group in colonial America (as in a Baptist, Congregationalist, or Presbyterian church) opposed to revivalism and emotionalism in religion.

What was The Battle of Quebec

The Battle during the Final French Indian War (Seven years war) that gave the British a decisive victory over France and gained much land for the British.

What is Social Mobility

The ability of individuals or groups to move upward or downward in status based on wealth, occupation, education, or some other social variable.

Who is James Wolfe

He was a British Army officer who was instrumental in obtaining victory for Britain over France in the final French Indian War

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25 questions / Notable People Things involving Conflict Groups of People Hodge Podge Famous Places/People

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Notable People

Things involving Conflict

Groups of People

Hodge Podge

Famous Places/People

Who was Robert de LaSalle

A French explorer who explored the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, the Mississippi River, and the Gulf of Mexico. .

What is Revolution

A forcible overthrow of a government or social order for a new system.

What are the Paxton Boys

Scots-Irish f from along the Susquehanna River in central Pennsylvania who formed a vigilante group to retaliate against local American Indians in the aftermath of the French and Indian War and Pontiac's Rebellion.

What is Fall Line

The zone demarcating the Piedmont from the Atlantic coastal plain

What is Harvard College

U.S. college named for John Harvard (1607-38), Puritan immigrant minister who bequeathed half his estate and 260 books to the yet unorganized college that had been ordered by the Massachusetts colonial government

Who was Benjamen Franklin

One of the founding fathers of the United States who helped draft the Declaration of Independence in 1776. He also negotiated the 1783 Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War (1775-83). In 1787, in his final significant act of public service, he was a delegate to the convention that produced the U.S. Constitution.

What is Fort Duquesne

A fort established by the French in 1754, at the junction of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers in what is now downtown Pittsburgh in the state of Pennsylvania.

What are the Pennsylvania Dutch

Immigrants and their descendants from southwestern Germany and Switzerland who settled in Pennsylvania in the 17th and 18th centuries.

What is the Albany Plan

An early attempt at forming a union of the colonies "under one government during the French and Indian War proposed by Ben Franklin at an Albany Conference.

Who was George Washington

The commander in chief of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1783, and later the first president of the United States, an office to which he was twice elected.

Who is Benjamin West

An English historical and portrait-painter, was born on in 1738, at Springfield, Pennsylvania, of an old Quaker family who gained fame for his paintings of the American Revolution

What were the Salem Witch Trials

A series of hearings before local magistrates followed by county court of trials to prosecute people accused of witchcraft in Essex, Suffolk, and Middlesex counties of colonial Massachusetts, between February 1692 and May 1693

What are the Scotch-Irish

The people of Scotland who settled in northern Ireland or their descendants, especially those who emigrated to North America.

What is Evolution

Any gradual process of formation or growth

Who was General Robert E. Lee

The greatest, most revered and most compassionate General to ever lead a war

Who is Phyllis Wheatley

An African who was purchased by the wealthy Wheatly Family of Boston in the mid 1700s who recognized her talents with poetry and they educated and trained her to become a great respected poet.

Who is John Peter Zenger

A German immigrant who printed a publication that harshly criticized the royal governor accusing him of an assortment of crimes and basically labeled him an idiot. He was sued for libel and acquitted.

What are Yeoman Farmers

Independent southern farmers living on family-sized farms (didn't own slaves)

What are town meetings

A form of direct Democratic rule among a group of people in close proximity

What is North Carolina

The greatest, most beautiful and diverse state in all of the United States which includes beautiful coastal areas, the best medical facilities, breathtaking mountains and the most famous college basketball teams in the country

Who is Samuel de Champlain

French navigator and cartographer who made the first accurate coastal map of upper America and Canada.

What is a Buffer Colony

A buffer zone" (any area that serves the purpose of keeping two or more other areas distant from one another) between the British colonies and other settlements. For example, Georgia, specifically, was founded to protect South Carolina against attack by the Spanish, the French and the indians.

Who are the West Bladen High School Students

DOUBLE JEOPARDY The greastest, smartest, best looking and interesting high school students in all of the world, including Europe and the Continental United States.

What are Regulators

A person or thing that regulates or watches over something.

Who is Mrs. Sharon Baxley

The finest, most gorgeous and smartest high school history teacher around who takes mercy on her students and cuts them a big break during special times when they are tired and worn out from being overworked.

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25 questions / factories and workers the scramble for africa the great war begins a new kind of war the great depression

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factories and workers

the scramble for africa

the great war begins

a new kind of war

the great depression

What is labor unions

which are organization representing workers

What is social darwinism

stated that certain nations or races are more fit then others

What is triple allliance

what united germany, austria-hungry, italy

What is total war

governments began to take stronger control of their citizans' lives

What is credit

an arrangement in which a purchaser borrows moneyfrom the bank over time

What is strikes

to urge employer to raise wages and improve conditions, unions in british organized what

What is cecil rhodes

one outspoken advocate of social darwinism was englishman

What is triple entante

france,russia,and great british thus became known as the

What is propaganda

information designed to influence people's opinions.

What is black tuesday

on that single day, investers sold off 16 million shares.

What is mass production

one of these changes was the development of ?

What is suez canel

the canel linked the mediterranean with the red sea

What is franz ferdinand

who decided to visit the bosnian city of sarajevo

What is battle of verdun

what was meant solely to kill or injure as many france soldiors as possible.

What is the great depression

the depression was the result of a number of complex factors

What is interchangeable parts

identical machinemade parts

What is leopold ll

who claimed the territory for himself

What is gavrilo princip

who opened fire with his pistol, killing the archduke and the archdukes wife.

What is gallipoli campaign

what was a failure

What is franklen delano roosevelt

in 1932 u.s.votes elected who

What is assembly line

the production moves from worker to worker

What is shaka

who was the zulu leader

What is central power

germany and austria-hungry made up one side known as the ?

What is genocide

ottoman leaders were accused by many of what

What is smoothawley tariff act

this act placed heavy taxes on imported goods in an attempt to encourge americans to buy goods and productsmade un the usa

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25 questions / World History U.S History Wars Presidents Random

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World History

U.S History

Wars

Presidents

Random

What is The Berlin Wall

What structure was 26.5 miles long until 1989?

What is July 4, 1776

When was the declaration of independence adopted? (month, day, year)

What is The Revolutionary War

"Yankee Doodle" was a popular song with troops during which war?

Who is George Washington

Who was America's first president?

What is the 2$ bill

What U.S. dollar bill was discontinued in 1966?

What is The Conservatives (UK)

What is the oldest political party in the western world?

What is the Chinese

What ethnic group was largely responsible for building most of the early railways in the U.S. West?

What is The U.S. Air Force

What current branch of the U.S. military was a corps of only 50 soldiers when World War I broke out?

Who is Abraham Lincoln

Who was president during the Civil War?

Who is Rosa Parks

Which historical female figure refused to give her seat up on a bus and is known to have helped start the Civil Rights movement?

What is the Incas

By which Ancient Civilizations was Machu Pichu built?

What is the 13 colonies

What do the 13 stripes on the U.S. flag represent?

What is Poland

World War II officialy began with the invasion of which country?

Who is James Buchanan

Who was the only bachelor President?

What is the quarter

What is the most popular circulated coin in the U.S. today?

Who is Christopher Columbus

Who convinced Jamaicans he'd made the moon disappear during a lunar eclipse in 1504?

Who is Francis Bellamy

Who wrote the Pledge of Allegiance?

What is 4

How many Japanese aircraft carriers were sunk at the Battle of Midway?

Who is Ronald Reagan

Who was the oldest elected President?

What is The Suffragettes

What was the group who fought most for women's right to vote known as?

Who was Cleopatra

The last ruler of Egypt was who?

What is the 13th

Which amendment abolished slavery?

What is 2%

What percent of the population died in the Civil War?

What is They were all republicans

Only 5 U.S. Presidents ever had beards. What did they all have in common?

Who is George Bush

Who said: "I'm the president of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli"?

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HISTORY

What is federalists

wanted a strong centralized governments and weaker states rights

What is alexander hamilton

secretary of treasury

What is edmund randolph

first attorney general

What is samuel osgood

postmaster general

What is thomas jefferson

secretary of state

What is electoral collage

way we elect a U.S. President, each state values is determined on how many representatives and senators that it has

What is delegated powers

powers specifically given to the central gov.

What is article 5

the amending process

What is article 1

creates the legislative branch

What is tarrifs

taxes on imports

What is article 6

general provisions

What is inauguration of george washington

APRIL 30,1789

What is anti-federalists

wanted strong states rights and less powerful central government

What is cabinet

a group of advisors that head departments and advise the president

What is article 7

ratification of the constitution

What is whisky rebeliion 1794

took place under washington, crushed a rebellion over rising corn and whisky prices

What is concurrent powers

powers shared by both gov. and states

What is article 4

relations of states to each other

What is reserved powers

power given to states

What is 2 4 year terms,voulantarrily stepped down, established a federal system,rejected kingship

wahingtons precedents

What is article 2

creates the executive branch

What is john jay

first supreme court justice

What is national bank

set up under washington presidency, created by hamilton to pay off debt

What is henry knox

secretary of war

What is article 3

creates the judicial branch

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B

C

D

E

Who was Cyrus

The man who allowed the hews to rebuild their temple

Who was Jonah

The prophet who was sent to preach to Nineveh

What is a cylinder seal

The tool the Sumerians used to stamp their documents

What is a Dynasty

A line of rulers all in the same family

What is Indus River Valley

The river valley that was the home of India's ancient civilization.

What are the Hanging Gardens

Nebuchadnezzar built these in Babylon and they were considered a wonder of the ancient world

Who are the Hittites

These people were among the first to build an empire

coins

Which of the following is not an invention of the Sumerians; The wheel the arch writing coins

What is Nirvana

Buddhists call this a state of being free from suffering

What is Hinduism

The main religion of india

What is humanism

Man's attempt to put himself in the place of God

What are coins

The Lydians first made this

What are Ziggurats

Tall temples built by Sumerians

What is Calico

The cotton material first made in india

What is Mumbai (Bombay)

India's Largest City

What is evolution

The false idea that man began as an animal

Who were the Phoenicians

Their most valuable contribution was the alphabet

Who is Abraham

A famous citizen from Ur who is mentioned in the Bible

Who are the Aryans

The group of people that invaded India from the North and developed the caste system

What is Place Value

An important math principal developed in India

Who are the Canaanites

A group of people known for no contributions

What is an Archaeologist

A person who studies ancient cultures

What is Cuneiform

Sumerian writing

What is Outcastes

People who dont belong to any caste

What is Monsoon

A seasonal wind that brings in rain

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25 questions / Chapter 8 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 9 Chapter 10/Amendments

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Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10/Amendments

What is Articles of Confederation?

The first written plan of government for the United States.

What is a Republic?

A country governed by elected representatives.

What is Bicameral?

Having two lawmaking parts. In Latin meaning 'two rooms.'

What is Elastic Clause?

A statement in the Constitution that lets Congress to pass all laws necessary.

What is the first amendment?

The right to worship freely. The right to assemble and petition. Freedom of Speech. Freedom of the Press.

What is the Constitution?

A written plan that provides the basic framework of a government.

What is the Virginia Plan?

Had a strong national government consisting of three branches. The Executive Branch, Legestlative Branch, and the Judicial Branch. The Legestlative Branch consisted of two houses, the House of Representatives and the Senate.

What is Checks and Balances?

The system that allows each branch of government to limit the powers of the other branches.

What is Veto?

To reject a proposed law or bill. Only the president can veto bills.

What is the fifth amendment?

Legal Rights. Protects people from going to court twice for the same crime (no double jeopordy).

What is the Constitutional Convention?

Shays Rebellion shoked Congress into calling for a Constitutional Convention. Delegates from all the colonies were making compromises to all the problems that they faced.

What is the New Jersey Plan?

This plan is like the Virginia plan but instead of having two houses in congress there is only one house.

What is the Federal System?

A system in which power is shared between national and state governments.

What is Popular Sovereignty?

The idea that the authority of government comes from the people.

What is eighth amendment?

Bail and Punishment.

What is the Great Compromise?

The House of Representatives and the Senate. Each State had two senators which were elected by the state legistlatures. The number of representatives from each state is based on the states population.

Who created the Constitution?

James Madison created the costitution.

What is Impeach?

To formally accuse an official of a crime related to official duties.

What is the Judicial Branch?

The branch of government consisting of the Supreme Court and lower federal courts that interprets the law and protects the constitution.

What is the nineth amendment?

Rights retained by the people.

What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?

James Madison created the constitution and he proposed a compromise by counting each slave as 3/5 of a person in determining a states population.

What is the Electoral College?

The group established by the constitution to elect the president and the vice president. Voters in each state choose thier electors.

What are Interest Groups?

Organizations that actively promote the views of some part of the public on specific issues.

What is the Executive Branch?

The branch of government that executes or carries out the laws.

What is the tenth amendment?

Powers reserved to the states.

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25 questions / War Religion Trade Revolution Empires

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War

Religion

Trade

Revolution

Empires

The American Civil War

What was the name of the war between the American North and South?

Christianity

What was the religion made in Bethlehem and was made the dominate religion of the Romans?

Silver

What mineral did the Spanish find and capitalize on, also the was a mountain they found of this mineral.

Napoleon (not Dynamite)

What emperor came to power during the French Revolution?

English

What 1700s empire conquered North America, India, and South Africa?

The Crusades

What was the name of wars that happened because of two religions?

Jupiter

What was the name of the main god of Romans?

Spice

What traded item made your food smell and taste good?

The American Revolution

Which revolution was cause by high taxes and large amount of troops in the area?

The Spanish Empire

Which empire had control of Cuba, South America, and Central America?

The Neapolitan War

What was the name of the war between France, UK, and Russia?(not a World War)

Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism

What three religions where made in India?

Venice

What was the name of a trade city consisted on many islands?

Indusial Revolution

What was the name of the revolution that caused indusial work to change?

The Roman Empire

What empire consisted of armies called legions and made one of the greatest cities in the world?

Genghis Khan

What was the first leader of the Mongols? (Hint, KHHAAANN!)

Ra

What was the name of the Egyptian god of the Sun?

Answer Not Provided

What empire was a trading empire based on the Meditranian and fought with thr Romans?

The Americans

Who helped the Mexicans revolt against Spain?

The Mongol Empire

What empire was made in 25 years and was larger that the Roman empire thanks to their horses?

The assassination of a king and queen.

What lead to World War I?

Music, Health, Sun, Sunlight, Learning, Archery

Name three things Apollo is the god of.

The local African tribes sold them their prisoners of war so they wont be enslaved.

How did England get all of their slaves?

Vladimir Lenin

Who was the leader of the Socialist party that revolted against the Russian tsar?

False

True or false, India was always a united country

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25 questions / Christianity Judaism Islam Buddhism Hinduism

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Christianity

Judaism

Islam

Buddhism

Hinduism

Who is Jesus

The supreme being?

What is one God

The number of Gods the Jews believe in?

What is Moses, Abraham, and Jesus

What did Allah do to help the Islamic live? (name three)

What is a way of life

Its not a religion but is, what?

What is death and rebirth

What is reincarnation?

What is the teaching of Christ

What is Gospels?

What is the torah

What is another name for the Jewish bible?

What is faith, fasting, prayer, Mecca, charity.

What is the five pillars?

What is meditation

What did Buddhism do for ceremonies?

What is 1000s years ago, Indus Valley

Where did Hinduism begun and how long ago?

What is Yes

Can people convert to Christianity?

What is the middle east

It began 3500s ago in the ____

What is unequal

The women s status was, what?

What is virtue and morality

What is one rule of life for Buddhism?

What is none

How many founders were there for Hinduism?

What is Jerusalem

Where did Christianity first come from?

What is Bar Mitzvah, Bat Mitzvah

A ___ and ____ is the ceremonial tradition when you turn 13

What is Mecca, Arabia

Began 1400 years ago, in what place?

What is nothing

Buddhism worshiped what?

What is karma

The Hinduism believe in what, to reincarnate?

What is 86%

What is the percent of Christianity in North Carolina?

What is Some inequality

Where women considered equal?

What is <0.5

The percent of Islams in North Carolina, is what?

What is a way of life

What was Buddhism considered?

What is a supreme spirit

One belief for Hinduism is, what?

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25 questions / Animals Mostly Geysers Deserts Other Mammals Animals that live close or in the Pacific Ocean

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Animals

Mostly Geysers

Deserts

Other Mammals

Animals that live close or in the Pacific Ocean

Mountain Lion

? is the largest cat in the Western Hemisphere.

Yellowstone

? National Park is the oldest national park in the world.

North American

? ? Desert is a vast, arid region that spreads into eleven states and parts of Mexico.

Coyote

? is a wild member of the dog family.

Gray Whales

? ?, which may be almost 50 feet long, pass through the kelp beds each year.

Bighorn

? is the wild sheep of North America.

Old Faithful

? ? is the most famous geyser.

Great Basin

? ? Desert is the largest desert area in the United States.

Bats

Seventeen kids of ? live in caves or near the desert.

Seals

? live along the coasts of all the continents and most of them live in the Northern Hemisphere.

Grizzly Bear

? is the most dangerous animal of North America.

Steamboat

? Geyser is the largest geyser in the world.

Mojave

? Desert, an arid section of Nevada and California covers 25,000 square miles.

Bobcats

?, which look like large house-cats with shrubby tails, live in the mountains and plains as well as in the deserts.

Wandering Albatross

? ? has the greatest wingspan of any bird.

Pika

? is the fat little farmer of the mountain slopes.

Mammoth Hot Springs

? ? ? has beautiful terraces of limestone.

Sonoran

? Desert is in western Mexico, southern California, and Arizona.

Cacomistles

? are members of the racoon family.

California Gull

? ? is similar to a tern and is also another familiar bird along the Pacific shores.

Dipper

? usually makes its nest behind a waterfall.

Yellowstone

? Lake is the largest high-altitude lake in North America.

Chihuahuan

? Desert lies partly in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.

Collared Peccary

? ? is a pig-like animal that wanders in bands through the desert and scrub-lands looking cacti and roots to eat.

Salmon

At least five kinds of ? live in the North Pacific Ocean.

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25 questions / WORLD LATIN AMERICA LEADERS WARS POTPOURRI

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WORLD

LATIN AMERICA

LEADERS

WARS

POTPOURRI

NORTH KOREA

THIS COUNTRY THREATENS JAPAN AND U.S. WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS

CUBA

THIS ISLAND NATION HAD NUCLEAR MISSILES POINTED TOWARDS U.S.

What is V.PUTIN

RUSSIA' LEADER

What is WW I

US VS. GERMANY , AUSTRIA-HUNGARY

NORTH KOREA

SONY HAS BEEN ATTACKED BY HACKERS WHO WORK WITH THIS COUNTRY

CANADA

THIS COUNTRY'S PARLIAMENT WAS ATTACKED BY A TERRORIST

PUERTO RICO

THIS 'COUNTRY 'IS REALLY IS A U.S. TERRITORY

What is GERMANY

ANGELA MERKEL IS FROM

What is VIETNAM

U.S. VS. COMMUNISTS DURING 1960'S

CUBAN EMBARGO

PRESIDENT OBAMA JUST MADE HISTORY BY ENDING

MEXICO

THIS COUNTRY IS FACING BACKLASH AFTER STUDENTS WERE MURDERED BY POLITICIAN'S GANG

BRAZIL

THIS COUNTRY HOSTED THE WORLD CUP

What is USSR/RUSSIA

JOSEF STALIN

What is KOREAN WAR

CHINA PROTECTING THIS COUNTRY DURING 1950'S

What is BEIJING

THE CAPITAL OF CHINA

GERMANY

THIS COUNTRY ATTACKED U.S. SHIPS LEADING TO WW I

MEXICO

THIS COUNTRY HAS THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF ILLEGAL PERSONS IN THE U.S.

What is GERMANY

KARL MARX

What is RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

LENIN LED THIS WAR AGAINST CZAR DURING 1916-17

What is WILSON

PRESIDENT DURING WWI

JAPAN

THIS COUNTRY'S EMPEROR DURING WWII WAS CONSIDERED 'GODLY'

COLOMBIA

THIS COUNTRY IN SOUTH AMERICA SUFFERS THE MOST FROM NARCO-TERRORISM

What is VATICAN

POPE FRANCIS

What is AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ

THE ATTACK ON TWIN TOWERS LED TO

What is FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

ONLY PRESIDENT TO ELECTED TO MORE THAN TWO TERMS

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25 questions / Spain Columbus England Colonies War

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Spain

Columbus

England

Colonies

War

Pure blood Spanish people

who was on the top of the Spanish New World caste system?

Yes

Was Columbus turned down for his voyage the first time

yes

Where the Quakers nice people

13

how many colonies where there

Gorge Washington

What was the name of the rebels general

King Fredenland and Queen Isabel

Who was the king and Queen of Spain

100 days

How many days was his voyage

A certain place where people are forced to pray

What are praying towns

yes

Was slavery a big thing in certain coloines

trenton

What was the first battle that the rebels won

Their trade was effected and could not pay for their debts

What happened to Spain for them to explore

5 boats

How many boats did he take on his voyage

They were believed in a different religon

Why did Puritans run away from England

tabcco

What was the main big product in the Southern States

German's

Who helped the Britain's in the war

they wanted to have power over the Natives

Why did Spain create Lady of Gudaulpa

1495

What Year did Columbus sail

Pennsylvanian

What state did William Penn own

Jamestown

What was the first settlement of the 13 colonies

the French and Spain

Who helped the rebels in the war

To get riches and land and spread religon

What were the goals of Spain for the new world

No He makes it but in the Americas

Did he make it to "India"

no

Did the Quakers force a certain religion. If so what religion

Yes and no They where nice to the loyalists but were mean to rebels

Where the Native Americans good neighbors

"Don't shoot until you see the whites of their eyes"

What is the most famous quote during the battle of Bunker Hill

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Explorers

Settlements

Early Americans

American Revolution

Vocabulary

Who is Amerigo Vespucci?

Which explorer believed that Columbus had sailed to a continent unknown to Europeans? John Cabot Amerigo Vespucci Marco Polo

Who is John Smith?

The leader of the Jamestown Colony?

Who are the Mound Builders?

This civilization built large mounds of earth as burial sites and as places of worship.

What is the Boston Tea Party?

Members of the Sons of Liberty dumped chests of tea into Boston Harbor protesting the Tea Act.

What is independence?

The freedom to govern on one's own.

Who is Juan Ponce de Leon?

The first European to explore land in what is today the United States.

What is religious freedom?

The New England Colonies were founded on-

What migration?

The early Americans were wandering people that became part of the great _____________ or movement of people, as they followed the ever moving animal herds.

What is the Tea Act?

The law that allowed a British company to sell it's tea to colonists at a lower price than the price charged by the colonial companies.

What is a treaty?

An agreement between countries.

Who is Christopher Columbus?

Landed on an island in the present day Bahamas that he believed were the East Indies.

Who is William Penn?

Received a charter for a new colony from the King of England in 1681. This charter said ____________ could set up a proprietary colony to the west of New Jersey.

Who are the Olmecs?

Known as the "mother civilization."

What is a boycott?

Refusing to buy goods from the British.

What is a royal colony?

A colony ruled directly by a monarch.

Who is Amerigo Vespucci?

Explorer who believed that Columbus sailed to a continent unknown to Europeans.

Who is Anne Hutchinson?

Forced to leave the Massachusetts Bay Colony for Rhode Island after questioning Puritan teachings.

What is the Iroquois League?

Featured a group of five tribes that worked together to keep peace among it's members.

What were the Intolerable Acts?

Series of laws aimed at punishing the colonists for the Boston Tea Party.

What is an import?

A product brought in from another country.

Who is Bartolomeu Dias?

The first European to sail to Africa's southern tip , the Cape of Good Hope.

Who is Thomas Paine?

The author of Common Sense.

What is small groups?

Most of the first Americans lived and hunted in____________.

What is taxation without representation?

Taxes given to the colonists with no representation in Parliament.

What is trial by jury?

The judging of a person accused of a crime by a jury of fellow citizens.

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Roman Emperors

Roman Timelines

Roman Accomplishments

Roman Failures

Land

Who is Dioceltian

The Roman emperor that seperated Rome

What is the sack of Rome

What happened in 410A.D.

What is an aqueduct

What did the Romans create to transport water.

What is The sack of Rome.

What happened when the the Romans stopped paying the barbarians.

What is Africa, Asia, and Europe.

What three continents was the Roman Empire on.

Who is Constantine/Justinian

The Empror that reunited the two halves

What is the last Roman emperor is ovethrown.

What happened in 476A.D.

What is a mosaic

A famous type of art using colored glass shards.

What is Poor

Due to high taxation, Roman citizens became what.

What is the Western Empire

Which half of the empire kept Italy.

Who is Justinain

After the death of this emperor, the Byzantine Empire fell apart

What is Justianian and Theodora rule the Byzantine Empire in Constantinople.

What happened in 527A.D.

What are Roman Roads(concrete)

What did the Romans create to use as roads

What is The Western Empire's fall.

What happened due to the splitting of the Roman Empire.

What is Rome and Constantinople.

What were the two Roman Capitols.

Who is Augustus

Who was the first emperor of Rome

What is 100-800 years.

How long did the Romans pay the goths not to attack.

What is Christianity

What was the main religion by the 300'sA.D.

What is corruption.

What happened within the Roman Empire that was one of its main reasons of its fall.

What is a boot.

What is Italy shaped as.

Who is Theodora

Who was Justianian's wife.

What is 1453A.D.

Wjen did the Byzantine Empire fall.

What is the Byzantine Empire becoming one o the greatest empires ever.

What happened to Rome after they split up for a second time.

What is choosing emperors.

What were the Romans bad at choosing after the empire split.

What is trade.

Why was Constantinople such an excellent location.

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List 1 Words

List 2 Words

List 3 Words

List 4 Words

What are "natural cycles"

Ancient calendars and time were based on these.

What is "cur or sur"

Root meaning "to care for, attend to"

What is "bibl"

This root means "book or scroll"

What is "cycl"

This root means "wheel or enclosure"

What is "helle, hella"

The root word meaning "Greece"

Who is Livy

This Greek historian from the chapter was not involved in politics

What is "to write or to draw"

The definition of the root of the word "autograph".

What is "to throw"

The root of the word "conjecture" means this.

What is "ev"

The root meaning "period or age".

What is "true"

The definition of the base "ver"

Who is Xenophon

This person wrote about the history of Greece after Thucydides

What is "to seek"

The definition of the root of the word "conquer"

What is "cord"

This is the root of the word "cordiality"

What is "tempor"

This is the root of the word "extemporaneous"

What is "to think or to regard"

This is the definition of the root of the word "reputation"

Who is Herodotus

This historian wrote a history about the Persian Wars

What is "manuscript"

"hand" + "to write"

What is "book or bound volume"

This is the definition of the root of the word "codify"

What is "first"

This is the definition of the root of the word "primeval"

What is tabula rasa

This word comes from the root "ras" and means "blank slate"

Who is Tacitus

This lawyer wrote the Annals, a satirical account of Roman politics.

What is "suggest"?

"Under + to bear" forms this word, meaning "bring to mind".

What is "autobiography"

"Self, by oneself + to write" forms this word.

What is "chronometer"

The roots meaning "Time, duration of time + measure, measurement" form this word.

What is "subtext"

The roots meaning "Under + woven" form this word.

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Harriet Tubman

Benjamin Banneker

Colonial time warp

Coming to America

Branches of Goverment

She is a girl.

Was Harriet Tubman a girl or boy?

He was born in 1731.

When was Benjamin born?

They wore cotton shirts, short pants, and a three cornered black hat.

What type of clothes did the boys have?

In Ellis Island.

Where did immigrants from Western Europe arrive?

A judge is a person in court who judges.

What's a judge?

She was a cook/spy/nurse.

What were Harriet Tubman's jobs in the Civil War?

No but his friends were.

Was Benjamin a slave?

The girls wore a simple button up dress, and a white hat.

What type of clothes did the girls wear.

A large estate where workers tend to the land, and sometimes live with the owner.

What is a Plantation?

Three/ 3/ Tress

How many branches of government are there?

She wanted everyone to be treated the same.

Why did Harriet want to make all races equal?

She taught him math and science.

What did Benjamins grandmother teach him?

No TV, no video games, no Internet, or iPods, and no electric lights.

What did they NOT have back then?

It's a hulled grain commonly prepared for eating.

What does grits mean?

It's made up of several judges.

What's the judicial branch made of?

Yup!!!!!!!! =)

Did Harriet want to help slaves?

LaNgUaDgE!!!!

Which subject was not mentioned in question three-hundred?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! And they didn't have a favorite singer (it's Justin Bieber)

Did they have ipods? If they did what was there favorite singer?

You know it!!!

Did immigrants live all over the U.s.A?

The White House.

What is the picture in the slide show for this catagory?

Northern States

Where did she help the slaves go?

His neighbors.

Who's school did he attend?

White.

What color was the girls hat?

People with the same culture.

What's an ethnic group?

No!!!!!!!!! :(

Did the people who wrote the constitution want the govornment to have too much power?

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What is that it was illegal to interfere with elections or deny citizens equal protection.

The formation of the Ku Klux Klan inspired Congress to declars...

What is low-ranking former Confederates were permitted to hold public office.

In 1872, what change in southern state governments brought about the end of many Reconstruction reforms?

What is removal of federal troops from the South.

A direct effect of the Compromise of 1877 was the...

What is establishing laws that successfully discriminated against African Americans.

The Redeemers attempted to limit the rights of African Americans by...

What is the segregation of African Americans and whites.

Jim Crow laws enforced...

What is segregation as long as "separate-but-equal" facilities were provided.

The verdict in Plessy v. Ferguson legalized...

What is Democrats who brought their party back to power in the South.

Who were the Redeemers?

What is readmit the former Confederate states into the Union.

The main goal of Reconstruction was to...

What is an organization established by Congress to aid poor southerners.

The Freedmen's Bureau was ...

What is the Wade-Davis Bill required that a majority of southern males take an oath of loyalty.

How did the Wade-Davis Bill differ from Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan?

What is it provided African Americans with a future free from slavery.

What did ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment mean for African Americans?

What is reunite the nation as quickly and painlessly as possible.

Lincoln's main vision for Reconstruction was to...

What is grant them amnesty through presidential pardons.

President Andrew Johnson's plan for wealthy southerners and former Confederate officials was to .....

What is laws passed that limited the freedom of African Americans.

The Black Codes were....

What is the government was intended for white men only and not African Americans.

Southern governments believed they were justified in passing the Black Codes because they felt that....

What is vote.

The Fifteenth Amendment protected the right of African American men to....

What is northern-born Republican office-holders in the South.

Whom did white southerners call "carpetbaggers"?

What is True.

The expansion of suffrage rights to include African Americans was a reason for the creation of the Ku Klux Klan in 1866. True or False.

What is they used violence and terror.

How did members of the Ku Klux Klan demonstrate their anger towards African Americans?

What is local governments did not do much to stop the violence of the group.

Why was the Ku Klux Klan able to obtain a great deal of power in the South before 1870?

What is most sharecroppers lived in a cycle of debt, first buying goods on credit and then failing to make much money selling their crops.

How did the sharecropping system limit opportunities for African Americans to own farms and property?

What is Thirteenth.

The ___________ Amendment passed by Congress in 1865 made slavery illegal.

Who is Thaddeus Stevens.

_________________ was a leader of the Radical Republicans from Pennsylvania who wanted to better the lives of African Americans and poor white southerners.

What is the Fourteenth.

To ensure that the Civil Rights Act of 1866 would not be overturned, Congress proposed the ________________ Amendment, which granted citizenship to African Americans.

What is voting.

The Fifteenth Amendment granted African American men_____________ rights in the United Stated.

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Places

Events

Vocabulary

Battles

What is Zachary Taylor

The 12 President of the US

What is California

The place where gold was dicovered

What is 1803

When did Jefferson buy a large plot of land

What is a pioneer

A person who head west

What is The Alamo

David Crockett died at this battle

Who is the Prince of Wales

The person who the bed in the Lincoln Bedroom was built for

What city wa gold discovered near

San Francisco

What is 1789

The Constitution is signed

What is an immigrant

A person who travels to a new country

What is Gonzales

A battle won by the Texans near San Jacinto

Who is Susan B Anthony

A female rights activist who had her picture on a $1 coin

Where was the Donner Party trapped

Donners Lake

What is 1845

Texas becomes a state

What is cholera

A disease along the Oregon Trail

What is Goliad

A Mexican victory

Who is John Sutter

The man who discovered gold in California

Where did Santa anna sign over Texas

San Jacinto

What is 1848

Gold was discovered in California in this year

What is Manifest Destiny

he belief that the US should stretch from sea to sea

What is Baltimore

The Star Spangled Banner was written about this battle

Who is Sam Austin

The capital of Texas was named after this man

Where did the Oregon Trail begin

Independence Missouri

What is 1815

The end of the War of 1812

What is an emmigrant

A person that travels within their country

What is San Jacinto

The final battle of the Texas Revolution

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Technology

History

History II

History III

What is a secondary color?

Mixing two primary colors gives you this.

Who is Michael Farady?

This scientist came up with electromagnetic induction and developed the Theory of Electromagnetism.

What is New Imperialism?

This type of imperialism differed from imperialism in the past by the extent of land coverage and legacy.

What is the rifle?

The development of this technology helped small colonial armies defeat much larger armies in the countries they were invading.

What is ability to aim or rotate?

Chinese war-junks (ships) were hard to maneuver and their cannons had this problem?

What is romanticism?

This movement in art during the 1800s was characterized by great or heavy emotion.

Who is Alessandro Volta?

This scientist invented the first battery called a "voltaic pile".

What are Africa and Asia?

The British Empire's colonialism and its effects was best studied in the these two continents.

What is potassium chlorate?

Alexandar Forsyth improved explosive power of the flintlock musket with this chemical?

What are benefits of colonialism?

Education, new technologies, and societal organization are considered by historians as what?

What are land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurs?

The four factors of production.

Who is Alfred Nobel?

This scientist invented dynamite.

What are motives for Imperialism?

Spread of religion, gain of natural resources, opening new markets for products, military expansion, are cited by historians as this phenomena.

What is the percussion lock?

The flintlock was replaced with this type of lock that misfired less and worked in any weather.

What are negative cons of imperialism?

New diseases, loss of culture, slavery, discrimination are considered by historians as this.

What is 60 degrees or pi over 3?

Arctan(radical 3) =

What is technology?

This is argued by many historians as the most lasting legacy of New Imperialism.

What is quinine prophylaxis?

This medicine helped the European countries colonize Africa.

What is the Opium War?

In this war, the British used a drug to help colonize a country.

What is the Transatlantic Economy?

Trading slaves to America, transporting raw materials from America to Europe, and shipping marketable products back to Africa was known as this?

What is syncopation?

This rhythm emphasizes offbeats, like the + parts of 1+2+3+4+ .

Who is John Dalton?

This scientist proposed that all elements are unique and that they combine with each other in whole number ratios.

What is a steamer?

This invention helped colonial countries travel deep inland into Africa and transport people and resources.

What is the modern bureaucratic organization of the army?

Historians say the British conquest of India was not won by guns but rather this.

What is mercantilism?

This is the economic doctrine that government control of foreign trade is of paramount importance for ensuring the prosperity and security of a state. In particular, it demands a positive balance of trade.

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PRESIDENTS

SLAVERY

STATE ABBREVATION

TRAILS

WHO IS THE INVENTOR OF THE INTERCHANGABLE PARTS?

WHO IS ELLI WHITNEY

WHO IS OUR 7TH PRESIDENT?

WHO IS ANDREW JACKSON

WHO WAS THE LEADER OF THE UNDER GROUND RAILROAD?

WHO IS HARRIET TUBBMAN

WHAT IS THE STATE WITH THE ABBREVATION PA?

WHAT IS PENNSYLVANIA

What is THE MAIN TRAIL THE PEOPLE TOOK TO CALIFORNIA?

WHAT IS THE OREGON TRAIL

WhO is THE INVENTOR OF THE STEEL PLOW?

WHO IS JOHN DEERE

WHO IS OUR 11TH PRESIDENT?

WHO IS PRESIDENT POLK

WHERE DID THE SLVES TRY TO RUN?

WHAT IS THE NORTHERN STATES

What is THE STATE WITH THE ABBREVATION MI

WHAT IS MICHIGAN

What is THE NAME OF THE TRAIL THAT STARTS IN MEMPHIS AND ENDS IN SANTA FE?

WHAT IS THE SANTA FE TRAIL

What is THE NAME OF THE INVENTOR OF THE REPEATING PISTOL?

WHO IS COLT

WHO IS OUR 16TH PRESIDENT?

WHO IS ABRAHAM LINCOLN

What is THE PART OF THE UNITED STATES THAT HAD SLAVES?

WHAT IS THE SOUTH

What is THE STATE WITH THE ABBREVATION LA?

WHAT IS LOUISIANA

What IS THE NAME OF THE TRAIL THAT STARTED IN SANTA FE AND ENDED IN LOS ANGELAS?

WHAT IS THE OLD SPANISH TRAIL

WhOWAS THE INVENTOR OF THE COTTON GIN?

WHO IS ELLI WHITNEY

WHO IS OUR 10TH PRESIDENT?

WHO IS JOHN TYLER

What is THE MAIN CROP THE SLAVES PICKED?

WHAT IS COTTON

What is THE STATE WITH THE ABBREVATION KY?

WHAT IS KENTUCKY

What is THE TRAIL THAT STARTS IN BENTS NEW FORT AND ENDS IN FORT BLISS?

WHAT IS THE TAOS TRAIL

What is THE NAME OF THE INVENTOR WHO INVENTED THE STEAM BOAT?

WHO IS ROBERT FULTON

WHO IS OUR 15TH PRESIDENT

WHO IS JAMES BUCHANAN

WHO ARE THE TWO SISTERS THAT WERE ANTI SLAVERY?

WHO ARE THE GRIMKE SISTERS

What is THE STATE WITH THE ABBREVATION NH?

WHAT IS NEW HAMPHISRE

What is THE TRAIL THAT STARTS IN NAUVOO AND ENDS IN SALT LAKE CITY?

WHAT IS THE MORMON TRAIL

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Geography

What is te study of the earth and it's Land, water, plant, and animal life?

Human/environment interaction

Human/environment interaction the way people use and influence their surroundings

Ice Age

happened about 2 million to 10,000 years ago

Mississippians

Known as the temple mound builders, most advanced of the mound building tribes.

Feudal system

A system where the owner of the land managed the land and it's people was known as a _______.

paralells

lines of latatude

movement

When a person goes from home in hernando to work in memphis

Asia and Alaska

Between________ and _________ a land bridge existed.

Mound builders (anasazi)

Built houses on the walls of canyons and caves

Marco Polo

A Description of The World was written by_________.

meridians

Lines of longitude

region

represents characteristics shared within an area

Beringia

________ was known as a land bridge

Maya

Considered city builders becouse of tall pyramids and temples

Nina,Pinta, and Santa Marnia

Christopher Columbus's three ships ________,__________,and________.

equator

zero degrees latitude

climate

the usual weather pattern over a long period of time

Technoctilan

The capital of the Aztec empire

Mayan

Empire developed becouse of skilled farming methoods

Christopher Coulmbus

The italian who thought he had found India but landed in the Bahamas

an exact spot

absolute location

weather

the condition of the earths atmosphere over a short period of time

Motezuma

The Aztec leader

Incan

Largest empire in the Americas

Leif Erikson

A norse who visited North America 500 years before Christopher Columbus

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When did the Cival War end?

May 1865.

What were the states' rights?

A principle which allowed the confederate states to make up with their own laws

Where and what was the first battle of the Civil War?

First Battle of Bull Run took place in northern Virginia when 30,000 inexperienced troops from the Union made their General McDowell attack the Confederacy’s General Beauregard

Who was the president of the Confederate States?

He was Jefferson Davis who ordered Lee to launch an offensive into Maryland

How many soldiers died in the civil war?

600,000 soldiers which is a very big tradgedy to the US

When did the first battle, First Battle of Bull Run, start?

July 1861

What is the offense?

During the war, southern leaders sometimes changed strategy and went on the attack. By this they would move their armies north wanting the north to know that they cannot win the war.

Where did the Battle of Antietam take place?

This war happened in Sharpsburg, Maryland and was the bloodiest battle in the entire civil war.

Who were the rebels?

In 1861, these people were the confederate army’s 112,000 soldiers

Who won the election in 1864?

Senator Abraham Lincoln due to Sherman being captured in Atlanta

What happened on February 1861?

7 states left the Union to form the Confederate states on this date

What was ratified in 1865?

The thirteenth amendment was approved in 1865

Where was another battle going on at the same time as the Battle of Gettysburg?

Vicksburg, Mississippi at the time of the Battle of Getysburg

Who were the Blockade Runners?

Many Confederate ships sailing to the Southern ports to prevent the South from getting supplies

What was the main goal of the North in the West?

They wanted to get control over the Mississippi River

What happened in April 1862?

The confederate Congress passed a draft which made men who were between the ages of 18 and 35 to serve in the army for 3 years.

What does emancipate mean?

This word means free and Lincoln wanted to free the enslaved African Americans in the South, so he waited for the right time.

Richmond, Virginia

Where did Sally Tompkins, a woman who disapproved of the men who said that women cannot do anything, establish a hospital for soldiers?

Who were the Yankees?

They were the Union’s 187,000 soldiers

Who aided, entertained, clothed, and took care of the troops while they could not go to war?

The women in Washington D.C, but some of them were spies.

What happened on September 17, 1862?

The Union and Confederacy armies fought at the Battle of Antietam on this day

What are casualties?

The 20,000 people in both armies who were wounded or killed in the Battle of Shiloh in April 1862

Where and what was the Merrimack?

It was a Union warship that Northern forces had abandoned when the Confederate forces seized the naval shipyard in Norfolk, Virginia

Who was the head of the army of the East Union?

George B. McClellan was appointed by Lincoln over all the other armies of the general

What were President Lincoln’s reasons for issuing the Emancipating Proclamation?

He wanted to clarify the status of the fugitive slaves, solve the Union's manpower woes, keep Great Britain out of the conflict, and disregard slavery

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Important stuff

Progressivism

Important names

United states in WW2

Zimmerman telegram

A telegram Germany Sent to Mexico to convince Mexico to attack the U.S.

The Cold War

An era of high tension and bitter rivalry known between the Untied States and the Soviet Union

progressive movement

A movement in the early 20th century aimed at correcting social injustices reforming government and restoring economic opportunities for all Americans

Rockefeller

Who was one of the richest men in the world, famous for his oil company

rationing

A limited portion or allowance of food or goods; limitation of use

Treaty of Versailles

Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.

Brown vs. Board of education

Seperate but equal is not equal

prohibition

A law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages

Thomas Edison

Inventor of the light bulb

Manhattan Project

code name for the secret United States project set up in 1942 to develop atomic bombs for use in World War II

No man's land

Territory between rival trenches.

9/11

terrorist groups took over airplanes and crashed them into important buildings

muckraker

A group of writers, journalists, and critics who exposed corporate wrong doings

Louis Sullivan

Built the first skyscraper

D-day

June 6th, 1944 - 175,000 Allied troops invading the beaches of Normandy; Also called Operation Overload.

nationalism

A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country.

Marshall plan

Plan for the reconstruction of Europe after WW2 announced by the United States Secretary of State George C. Marshall

suffrage

Right to vote

Herbert Spencer

Believed in survival of the fittest aka Social Darwinism

Kamikaze

Divine wind - a fighter plane used for suicide missions by Japanese pilots in World War II

propaganda

Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause.

Baby Boom

A dramatic rise in the birthrate following WW2

The Jungle

This 1906 work by Upton Sinclair pointed out the abuses of the meat packing industry. The book led to the passage of the 1906 Meat Inspection Act.

George Eastman

invented the first handheld camera

Hiroshima

City in Japan, the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, on August 6, 1945. The bombing hastened the end of World War II.

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