Critical Skills
Bill of Rights
Westward Expansion
Industrial Revolution
Civil War
100
What is in the middle of the critical thinking diagram?
Argument
100
What is the bill of rights?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution
100
How do you generalize Native Americans?
Whole: Native Americans Parts: geocultural groupings (plains, southeast) & tribes (Cherokee, Nez Perce) Sample: individual native Americans (Pontiac, Sitting Bull)
100
How do we get what we want?
1. Make the product (production) 2. trade for it - money: tool to ease trade
100
What is a civil war?
When the people of one country are fighting a war against each other
200
What are the three parts to generalization reasoning?
- whole - parts - sample
200
What is double jeopardy?
When no person should be subject for the same offense to be put in jeopardy twice
200
Why is it difficult to generalize Native American's?
Because-- - there are 500 nations - more than 10 million people - 300 languages - diverse environments/cultures -
200
Define interchangeable parts
Parts that are exactly the same
200
Why did the north and south develop different economies?
Geography; The south had the economy of commercial agriculture while the north developed an industrial economy (lots of rivers for water wheels)
300
What are the two types of values you can have?
Liberal and Traditional values
300
What are the ten amendments in order?
1. Freedom of religion, speech, press and assembly 2. Right to bear arms 3. Quartering of troops 4. Search and seizure 5. Rights of the accused 6. Rights in a trial 7. Civil law 8. Cruel and unusual punishment 9. Additional rights of the people 10. Powers of the states and people
300
How did William Cody view the Native Americans?
American Indians as savages: - primitive and uncivilized - half naked hootin' and hollerin' - barely able to communicate - viciously attacked innocents
300
Define mass production and explain what made it possible
Mass production is the production of goods done in large quantities. This was made possible by the factory system
300
How did the invention of the cottin gin afftect cotton farming?
The invention of the cotton gin allowed farmers to grow short-staple cotton for farming
400
What is history?
How the past effects us today and we interpret the past
400
What was the purpose of the Bill of Rights?
To ensure the Anti-Federalists that the Constitution would not give an oppressive amount of power to the National Government
400
How did revisionists view American Indians?
- peaceful - in harmony with nature - spiritual, conservationist - victims of American atrocity
400
Why was slavery dying out in the north by the late 1790s
Because farmers had very little economic motivation to use slaves
400
Where in the United States did industrialization first take hold? Why there?
New England because citizens there had depended on shipping and foreign trade heavily since agriculture was not highly profitable
500
What are the ten values in their value pairs?
Individualism--> Collectivism Liberty--> Order Equality--> Hierarchy Democracy--> Authority Capitalism--> Centralization
500
What are the first ten amendments of the constitution?
1. Freedom of religion, speech, press and assembly 2. Right to bear arms 3. Quartering of troops 4. Search and seizure 5. Rights of the accused 6. Rights in a trial 7. Civil law 8. Cruel and unusual punishment 9. Additional rights of the people 10. Powers of the states and people
500
Put the following territory's in chronological order of when they were acquired
- Louisiana (France) - 1854 - Florida (Spain) - 1846 - Texas (Texas/Mexico) - 1848 - Mexican Cession (Mexico) - 1850 - Oregon (Great Britain) - 1819 - Gadsden Purchase (Mexico) - 1803
500
Define "capitalism" and "entrepreneur" and explain how they are related
Capitalism: The economic system in which private businesses and individuals control the means of production such as factories, machines and land Entrepreneurs: Investors that risk their own money in new industries They are related because entrepreneurs tend to be involved in capitalism
500
Why was slavery such a heated issue?
Because it got to a point where some states had slavery, some did not and the rest were split in half because one part had slavery while the other did not. Also, everyone began giving their personal opinons about the issue which only made things worse.
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