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Is a term used to refer to the soldiers and explorers of the Portuguese Empire or the Spanish Empire in a general. Also, this term is translated "conqueror" in the English.
What is conquistador
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During the Age of Exploration, there was a widespread transfer of animals, plants, culture, human populations, communicable diseases, technology and ideas between the American and Afro-Eurasian hemispheres in the 15th and 16th centuries.
What is Columbian Exchange
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The chief executive of the United States government.
What is the President of the United States
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Is a song performed most famously by Billie Holiday, who first sang and recorded it in 1939. Written by teacher Abel Meeropol as a poem and published in 1937, it protested American racism, particularly the lynching of African Americans.
What is Strange Fruit
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A 2011 American drama film directed and written by Tate Taylor, and adapted from Kathryn Stockett's 2009 novel of the same name. Featuring an ensemble cast, the film is about a young white woman, Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan, and her relationship with two black maids, Aibileen Clark and Minny Jackson, during the Civil Rights era in 1963 Jackson, Mississippi.
What is The Help
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Was a notorious English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of the American colonies, whose real name was Edward Teach.
What is Blackbeard
200
A system of political and economic policy, evolving with the modern national state and seeking to secure a nation's political and economic supremacy in its rivalry with other states.
What is mercantilism
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The principle or system of vesting in separate branches the executive, legislative, and judicial powers of a government.
What is separation of powers
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The following lyrics are to what negro spiritual, "I am a poor pilgrim of sorrowI’m tossed in this wide world alone No hope I have for to morrow I’ve started to heav’n my home Sometimes I am tossed and driven, Lord, Sometimes I don’t know where to roam I’ve heard of a city called heaven I’ve started to make it my home"
What is A City Called Heaven or City Called Heaven
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A 1991 American hood drama written and directed by John Singleton in his directorial debut, and starring Ice Cube, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Morris Chestnut, Laurence Fishburne, Nia Long and Angela Bassett, depicting life in South Central Los Angeles. This was the film debut for both Ice Cube and Morris Chestnut.
What is Boyz in the Hood
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Fill in the blank: North Carolina was part of seven slave states in the Lower South region of the United States whose regional economy was mostly dependent upon agriculture, particularly cotton, and a plantation system of production which in turn largely relied upon slave labor who __________________ from the nation.
What is secede, seceded, or secession
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Was a white American abolitionist who believed armed insurrection was the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States.[1] During the 1856 conflict in Kansas, Brown commanded forces at the Battle of Black Jack and the Battle of Osawatomie.[1] Brown's followers also killed five slavery supporters at Pottawatomie.[1] In 1859, Brown led an unsuccessful raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry that ended with his capture.
What is John Brown
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The three most important amendments in the United States constitution that 1) ended slavery, 2) gave citizenship to blacks, & 3) gave African Americans the right to vote.
What is 13th, 14th, & 15th amendments.
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On this album even singles were released from the album, all of which reached the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. Three of the singles had music videos released. "Baby Be Mine" and "The Lady in My Life" were the only tracks that were not released as singles & was the best-selling album of all time, with sales over 65 million copies worldwide according to various sources
What is Thriller
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Twenty-two years after the events of Jurassic Park, Isla Nublar, off Costa Rica's Pacific coast, now features a fully functioning dinosaur theme park as originally envisioned by John Hammond. This is a 2015 movie coming out.
What is Jurassic World
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Period of time that impacted the United States and North Carolina where both went through a severe economic depression in the decade preceding the World War II.
What is the Great Depression or Great Depression
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The event in United States history encompasses social movements in the United States whose goals were to end racial segregation and discrimination against black Americans and to secure legal recognition and federal protection of the citizenship rights enumerated in the Constitution and federal law.
What is Civil Rights Movement
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Law signed in 1830, by which President, that provided for the general resettlement of Native Americans to lands W of the Mississippi River. From 1830 to 1840 approximately 60,000 Native Americans were forced to migrate. Of some 11,500 Cherokees moved in 1838, about 4,000 died along the way.
What is President Andrew Jackson
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This singer will be performing the halftime show for the Superbowl
What is Katy Perry
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These are spy fiction movies about a man with remarkable survival abilities who suffers from retrograde amnesia, and who must seek to discover his true identity. In the process, he must also reason out why several shadowy groups, a professional assassin, and the CIA want him dead.
What is Bourne Identity, Supremacy, Ultimatum
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Are institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before 1964 with the intention of serving the black community.[1] Historically, they admitted students of all races and in recent years some have lost their black majorities. North Carolina have several of these schools.
What is Historically Black Colleges and Universities
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Was a presidential proclamation and executive order on January 1, 1863, that proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the ten states that were still in rebellion,[2] excluding areas controlled by the Union and thus applying to 3 million of the 4 million slaves in the U.S. at the time.
What is Emancipation Proclamation
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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution or the Southeast Asia Resolution, gave this President authorization, without a formal declaration of war by Congress, for the use of "conventional'' military force in Southeast Asia.
What is President Lyndon B. Johnson
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An American singer and actor. Regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century, he is often referred to as "the King of Rock and Roll", or simply, "the King".
What is Elvis Presley
500
Is a 1985 American period drama film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Alice Walker. The film starred Danny Glover, Desreta Jackson, Margaret Avery, Oprah Winfrey (in her film debut), Adolph Caesar, Rae Dawn Chong, and introduced Whoopi Goldberg as Celie Harris.
What is The Color Purple
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