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Vocabulary
2.1 and 2.2
2.3 and 2.4
2.5 and 2.6
2.7
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What does it mean to adjust?
What is adapt?
100
What did settlers carry?
What are diseases such as smallpox?
100
How many branches are there of U.S. Government? What are they?
The legislative, judicial, and executive. There are three branches.
100
What is industrialization?
The shift to large-scale production.
100
Who were the United States allies with?
France and Britain
200
What does it mean to build settlements and develop trade in lands that they control?
What is colonize?
200
What is a large farm that grows crops for profit?
What is a plantation?
200
What is a document that organizes a government and states its powers?
What is a constitution?
200
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
It freed all slaves.
200
What is a cold war?
A long period of political tension without fighting.
300
What is a Cold War?
What is a long period of political tension without fighting?
300
What year did Christopher Columbus sail west from Spain and reached islands in the Caribbean Sea?
What is 1492?
300
What year was the Declaration of Independence written?
What is 1776?
300
Who led the Patriots to final victory at Yorktown?
General George Washinton
300
What did the Germans after World War I think was unfair?
The terms of the peace treaty.
400
What does it mean to strengthen?
What is fortify?
400
Did the French or the British get along better with Native Americans?
Who are the French?
400
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
400
What was the trail that the Cherokee took the Oklahoma called?
The Trail of Tears
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What caused the United States to join World War II?
The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. The next day, the United States joined World War II.
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What is a tax?
What is a fee demanded by the government to pay for public services?
500
What is a tax?
A fee demanded by the government to pay for public services.
500
What were the first ten amendments the U.S. Constitution called?
What is the Bill of Rights?
500
Who was elected president in 1860?
Abraham Lincoln
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What caused the United States to join World War I?
German submarines sank the Lusitania (a ship carrying U.S. passengers).