US History
The Three R's of the New Deal
Economic theory that a country’s strength is measured by the amount of gold it has, that a country should sell more than it buys and that the colonies exist for the benefit of the Mother Country.
What is mercantilism?
Father of psychoanalysis
Who is Freud?
continuation of the Roman Empire centred in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
The practice of redistricting in order to benefit a specific party by drawing districts based on the demographics of their residents
What is gerrymandering?
Political boss of Tammany Hall in the Gilded Age
Who is Boss Tweed?
Absolute monarch who built the Versailles palace.
Who is King Louis XIV?
Making judgments about the probability of an event being representational in character and essence of a known prototypical event.
What is a representative heuristic?
An international meeting held in January 1919 at Versailles, designed to establish peace after WWI and essentially rebuild Europe after the devastation of war
What is the Paris Peace Conference?
Gives Federal Government authority to regulate all of interstate commerce
What is the interstate commerce clause?
American initiative enacted in 1948 to provide foreign aid to Western Europe.
What is the Marshall Plan?
The policy or practice of restructuring or reforming the economic and political system during Gorbachev's glasnost period.
What is perestroika?
When people behave differently when being observed
What is the Hawthorne Effect?
The first Roman Emperor
Who is Augustus?
Rights which are not delegated to the federal government
What is reserved states' rights?
Second in the series of French and Indian Wars
What is Queen Anne's War?
Name given to the Balkan states prior to WWI due to contention there
What is the Balkan Powder Keg?
Infantile reflex where a baby spreads his toes when his foot is stroked
What is the Babinski Reflex?
Vietnamese Communist revolutionary leader during the Vietnam War
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
Funds granted to the states for a broadly defined purpose
What is a block grant?
Small town in Virginia where Robert E. Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War.
What is the Appomattox Court House?
Period of French Revolution where France's revolutionary government ordered the arrest and execution of thousands of people, and massacred many
What is the Reign of Terror?
Proposed that general intelligence is linked to many clusters that can be analyzed by factor analysis
Who is Spearman?
Agricultural advancement in the Song Dynasty that drastically increased food production
What is Champa Rice?
SCOTUS case that established judicial review
What is Marbury v. Madison?