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People
Potpourri
Concepts I
Concepts II
100
The first permanent English settlement at Jamestown was established in North America.
What is 1607
100
The American colonists outlined their complaints against this king in the Declaration of Independence.
Who is George III?
100
The command system used during the Age of Exploration, allowing monarchs to acquire gold and control the trade of colonial possessions
What is mercantilism?
100
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
What are inalienable, or natural, rights
100
The trading of goods, animals, and ideas between the Americas and Europe, Africa, and Asia.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
200
The years of the U.S. Civil War
What is 1861-1865
200
Wrote the pamphlet "Common Sense" which encouraged the American colonists to seek indepedence from Britain.
Who is Thomas Paine?
200
One of civilization's first written codes which was based on the idea of "an eye for an eye."
What is Hammurabi's Codes
200
In Islam, who is Muhammad?
The prophet of Allah
200
The economic system in which the government owns the major means of production in an attempt to offer assistance and security to those in need.
What is socialism?
300
The years of World War II
What is 1939 - 1945
300
American colonial leader who participated in the Boston Tea Party as a member of the Sons of Liberty
Who is Samuel Adams?
300
The preview of the break-up of the Union, occuring when South Carolina threatened secession over tariffs.
What is Nullification Crisis?
300
In the Middle Ages in Europe, it was the economic system based on lands owned by a lord and farmed by peasants/serfs.
What is manorialism or the manor system?
300
The first manjor monotheistic religion whose major ideas of faith are written in the Torah.
What is Judaism?
400
The Louisiana Purchase
What is 1803
400
French military leader who served as a general and diplomat without pay in the American Revolution and as a member of the Estates General
Who is the Marquis de Lafayette?
400
The turning point of the American Revolution
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
400
Political and econnomic system in which all production is owned by the state on behalf of the people and the state determines what is produced.
What is communism?
400
The clearest and most concise version of Roman laws, allowing Roman law to spread beyond the empire.
What is Justinian's Code of Laws
500
Battle of Hastings
What is 1066
500
Leading spokesperson of passive resistance of apartheid in 1980s
Who is Desmond Tutu?
500
The first governing document of Plymouth Colony
What is the Mayflower compact?
500
Type of government in which the authority is held by a bi-cameral legislature and the executive is the leader of the majority party.
What is a parliamentary government?
500
Fonder of the Russian Bolshevik Party. He led the November Revolution in 1917.
Who is V.I. Lenin?
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