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 The image above represents

Christopher Columbus landing in the Caribbean

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 What was the first permanent English settlement in what would be the United States?

Jamestown

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The Founding Values are...

Freedom, Equality, Representation

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List the Who/what and Did what


Freedom, Founding value of the Constitution

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Hundreds of devices carried by Hezbollah members exploded simultaneously across Lebanon on Sept. 17 in an audacious plot by Israel.

What were the devices?

Pagers

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What was the primary reason Europeans funded expeditions to the Indies?

They wanted gold and other valuable goods, too, such as silks and spices.

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 What was Chief Powhatan's significance in American history?

He was the leader of the Powhatan nation, who initially traded with the settlers at Jamestown, but then decided to starve the English out of Virginia.

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The French and Indian War was fought over...

Land disputes with the French

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Who/what and did what? 

Arawaks

peaceful, native group that Columbus forced to search for gold 

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The Federal Reserve Board lowered interest rates by half a percentage point, a sharp cut that suggests central bank officials are confident that inflation is fading.

What are interest rates?

The cost of borrowing or the gain from lending.

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What is true about the treatment of Indigenous people by Christopher Columbus and his men?

 Natives who did not give gold to the Spaniards had their hands cut off, Everyone over the age of 13 was forced to look for gold, Natives were captured and sent back to Europe to be enslaved, population decreased significantly

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Where did white supremacy and anti-black racism originate?

Europeans’ creation, maintenance, and extension of racial slavery in the Atlantic World beginning in the sixteenth century

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 What is a CAUSE of the event pictured above?

Tensions were growing between the colonists and the British government

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Who/What and Did what


Stamp Act, colonial tax on all paper products, led to boycotting of goods by the colonists

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Facing intensifying pressure over children’s safety online, Instagram unveiled a sweeping overhaul on Sept. 17 to beef up privacy and limit social media’s intrusive effects for users who are younger than 18.

Which of the following are among the new changes?

A-disabling the "like" feature for teenagers

B- making the accounts of users under 118 private by default

C-providing more supervision tools for adults such as allowing parents to see the accounts that their teens recently managed

D-stopping notifications from 10PM to 7AM

A

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How do we know about the treatment of Indigenous people by Christopher Columbus and his men?

Bartolome de Las Casas, who was a young priest who helped the Spanish conquer Cuba, but then had a change of heart and spoke out against Spanish cruelty.

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American slavery differed from others because...

It was based on someone's skin color, It heritable (passed through the mother to her child at birth), It was legally defined as a permanent condition

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According to the Declaration, where do governments get their power from?

The consent of the governed (the people)

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Who/What did what? 


Starving time, when the Native Americans stopped helping the settlers of Jamestown

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A- Arkansas, New Jersey, Oregon

B-California, Florida New York

C-Pennsylvania, Michigan, North Carolina

D-Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas

C. 

In these key battleground states, neither candidate leads by three percentage points or more. If the polls were to stay this tight until November, it would be the first election since 2004 when the polls were this close in the pivotal states.

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The Arawak people were civilized people who lived in villages and practiced agriculture.

What put them at a disadvantage against the Spaniards?

They were given an impossible task of finding gold.

The Spaniards had superior military technology.

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What year were the first African people brought to the United States?

1619

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What was the rallying cry of the colonists leading up the the American revolution?

No taxation without representation!

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Who/What and did what?


The Middle Passsage

part of the Atlantic slave trade journey from Africa to the Americas

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The Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani became the first player in baseball history to do what?

A-Hit 50 homeruns and steal 50 bases in a season

B-make an unassisted triple play

C-pitch and hit in the same game

Hit 50 homeruns and steal 50 bases in a season

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