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9. Who became the world’s TWO MAJOR POWERS after World War II? What was their competition for world leadership CALLED? (2pts)
What is...
1. The United States and the Soviet Union
2. The Cold War
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What is...
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5. What CAUSES helped GROW the United States’ population throughout the 1800s? (3pts)
What is...
1. High birthrates
2. Advances in public health
3. Arrival of millions of European immigrants
1. Who is believed to be among the FIRST PEOPLE to settle in the AMERICAS? WHAT are their decedents CALLED TODAY? (2pts)
What is?
1. HUNTERS FROM ASIA (who followed herds of animals across a land bridge between eastern Siberia and Alaska).
2. Native Americans
8. What HAPPENED AFTER four years of FIGHTING between the northern and southern forces of the United States? (1pt)
What is...
1. The northern forces won, the country was reunited, and slavery ended.
4. How did NATIVE AMERICANS SUFFER from the United States’ ANNEXED LANDS? (3pt)
What is...
1. Loss of land
2. Loss of culture
3. Loss of life
6. WHAT ALLOWED manufacturers to move their goods to markets more quickly throughout the 1800’s? (3pt)
What is...
1. Roads, canals, steamboats, and railroads
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11. What EXAMPLE of terrorism does the book describe within this chapter? HOW MANY people DIED due to this act of terrorism? (2pts)
What is...
1. 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States
2. About 3,000 people died
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What is...
SORRY!
10. WHY was the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union CALLED THE COLD WAR? HOW did the Cold War END? (2pts)
What is...
1. The combat never became “hot” with actual combat between the two powers.
2. The breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991.
2. WHERE did Christopher Columbus HOPE to reach when sailing west from Europe? Where did he LAND INSTEAD? WHO did his tales of these new lands EXCITE, which led them to begin making trips of their own? (3pts)
What is...
1. Asia
2. Islands in the Caribbean Sea
3. Europeans
3. What did the people of Britain’s 13 colonies GROW RESENTFUL OF? Which TWO FORCES began to fight after discontent boiled over? WHAT NEW NATION was born after independence was declared and who was the nation’s FIRST PRESIDENT? (4pts)
What is...
1. Tax and trade policies
2. Colonist and British forces
3. The United States
4. George Washington
7. What PRACTICE was increasingly CRITICIZED by the people in the Northern States? What CAUSED Southerners to worry and several Southern states to WITHDRAW FROM THE UNITED STATES? What did this action LEAD TO? (3pts)
What is...
1. The practice of slavery
2. Worried that northerns would attempt to end slavery + Abraham Lincoln (an opponent of slavery) was elected as president.
3. A civil war
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