Critical Thinking
Bill of Rights
Westward Expansion
Industrial Revolution
Civil War
100
What are the three types of reasoning?
Comparison, Generalization, and Cause & Effect
100
What are the Bill of Rights?
The first ten amendments
100
What is the traditional boundary of the United States dividing east from west?
Mississippi River
100
What type of workers were no longer necessary with industrialization?
Craftsmen or skilled workers
100
What was the nation formed by the seceded southern states, called?
Confederate States of America
200
What is at the center of the study of history?
Argument
200
What right is given by the second amendment?
The right to bear arms
200
In 1803, Thomas Jefferson purchased what territory for $15 million dollars, more than doubling the US's land?
Louisiana Territory
200
What invention was widely used in the South during Mill Times, or early on in the Industrial Revolution?
Cotton-gin
200
What thing did the US do that heightened tensions and threatened to tip the balance in the Senate?
Expansion
300
What are the three elements of comparison reasoning?
Subject, issue, and descriptor
300
When people are "taking the fifth" they are exercising what right?
The right to remain silent (To not testify against oneself)
300
What was the widely-held belief that Americans were destined to expand throughout the continent, called?
Manifest Destiny
300
What invention made industrialization spread to the south and water wheels to be less popular and used?
Steam engine
300
What could not compete with slave labor?
Free labor
400
What value has a heavy emphasis on duty and responsibility?
Collectivism
400
What are the 5 freedoms established in the First Amendment?
Freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition
400
What historical interpretation presents Native Americans as peaceful, spiritual people living in harmony with their environment?
Revisionist
400
What type of agricultural production became more popular with the industrial revolution?
Commercial production
400
What prevented President Lincoln from making the Civil War a war to abolish slavery?
Border states where slavery was still legal
500
What are the three parts of expressing in the critical thinking diagram?
Thesis + Evidence + Commentary
500
The right of eminent domain is established in what amendment?
The Fifth
500
What was one of the answers to the "Indian Question" seriously considered by the United States government?
Annihilation, Assimilation, or Reservation
500
What event affected the North's economy, shifting their focus to industrialization?
War of 1812 Embargo Act of 1807
500
What aspect of slavery was the Civil War primarily fought over?
Political and economic Not moral
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