What are these referred to in the 1700's?
*taxation without representation
*no trial by jury
*housing troops
Colonial Grievances
100
The area known as "Mesopotamia" is found between these 2 rivers...
Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
100
Monarchs
Who are kings or queens who rule a kingdom called?
100
What are these 3 major United States legislative pieces called?
*1865-abolished slavery
*1868-guaranteed all former slaves civil rights and equality
*1870-guaranteed all males the right to vote
What are the Reconstruction Amendments
13th, 14th, 15th
100
He was the main author of the Declaration of Independence, and third President of the U.S.A.
Thomas Jefferson
200
What was the first form of government in the United States from 1781-1788? Here are some of its weaknesses:
*weak national government
*no power to tax
*no standing army/military
Articles of Confederation
200
What religion believes in the existence of one God, and has been persecuted by many other religions throughout history?
*Holocaust
Judaism
200
He wrote 282 laws that are considered to be the first written laws and are very strict.
*eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth
Who is Hammurabi?
200
These are the first two battles of the American Revolution.
What are the Battles of Lexington & Concord
200
Tuesday, October 29, 1929
What is "Black Tuesday", the crash of the stock market
300
What type of government is described by a distribution of the powers of government between a central (federal) government and the regional (state) governments?
Federalism
300
Countries use industrial plants to remove salt from seawater so that it can be used for drinking and irrigation. What is this process called?
Desalination
300
Hinduism and Buddhism began in this country.
What is India
300
These were newspaper articles in New York; it explained reasons why people should adopt the new US Constitution.
*Alexander Hamilton
*James Madison
*John Jay
What are the Federalist Papers
300
1492
When did Columbus sail the ocean blue
400
Which type of economy is also called capitalism?
*Production of goods & services are determined by demand from consumers
Market Economy
400
What is a traditional Muslim place of worship called?
AND
What is the term for the person who calls (cries) the faithful to prayer 5 times a day?
Mosque AND Crier
400
Egyptians used this as one of the first forms of writing.
What are hieroglyphics.
400
This happened immediately after the attacks on the Aleutian and Hawaiian islands.
U.S. enters WWII
400
1787
The U.S. Constitution is written at the Constitutional Convention.
500
The process where plants, animals, diseases, ideas, and/or innovations are transmitted from one culture to another, across a vast area.
What is Spatial Diffusion
500
In the early 1800's, these were the greatest physical land form that settlers had to get through in trying to get to the west coast.
What are the Rocky Mountains
500
He was a lawyer, then began a non violent movement in India. boycotting goods and even learning to make his own clothes.
Who is Mahatmas Ghandi
500
This was a major problem (crisis) when South Carolina tried to nullify a federal law in 1832:
*high federal taxes
*S.C. refused to pay, President Andrew Jackson sent a militia
*S.C. backed down
What was the Nullification Crisis
500
This case over-ruled Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), and abandoned the seperate-but-equal doctrine in the context of segregating public schools.