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Constitution
SMART
General History
Skills
Miscellaneous
100
The division of power between the states and the US government.
What is federalism?
100
Where your information comes from.
What is the source?
100
Gaining your independence or freeing of slaves.
What is emancipation?
100
To note the similarities between things.
What is compare?
100
The war in which the United States gained independence from Britain.
What is the Revolutionary War?
200
The idea that no one is outside or above the law.
What is Rule of Law
200
Why did the author write the article?
What is motive?
200
Series of laws, sometimes called black codes, designed to keep black people down.
What is Jim Crow?
200
To note the differences between things.
What is contrast?
200
The war between the northern United States and the Southern United States between 1861-1865.
What is the Civil War?
300
Another way of saying that judicial branch clarifies the meaning of the laws.
What is interpret?
300
Who is the expert?
What is authority?
300
The rebuilding of the country after the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
300
A strategy to learn more about a source (historical inquiry)
What is asking questions, finding the most significant details, making connections to yourself or other texts?
300
To get rid of something, usually slavery within the context American History.
What is abolition?
400
Does the article make sense?
What is review?
400
The document that started the Revolutionary War.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
400
What you do when an essay questions asks you to be specific.
What is give details and examples from readings and films?
400
A persons perspective, agenda or viewpoint.
What is bias?
500
When you are prosecuted for breaking a law that was passed after you committed the act.
What is an ex post facto law?
500
How can you double check the source?
What is two-source test?
500
The idea that it was the God given right of the United States to expand from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
What is manifest destiny?
500
SMART is used for this.
What is deciding if a source is good or not?
500
Government where people participate in the decision making.
What is democracy?