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Critical Skills
Bill of Rights
Westward Expansion
Industrial Revolution
Civil War
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What is in the middle of the critical thinking diagram?
Argument
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What is the bill of rights?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution
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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)
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How do we get what we want?
1. Make the product (production) 2. trade for it - money: tool to ease trade
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What is a civil war?
When the people of one country are fighting a war against each other
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What are the three parts to generalization reasoning?
- whole - parts - sample
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What is double jeopardy?
When no person should be subject for the same offense to be put in jeopardy twice
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Why is it difficult to generalize Native American's?
Because-- - there are 500 nations - more than 10 million people - 300 languages - diverse environments/cultures -
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Define interchangeable parts
Parts that are exactly the same
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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)
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What are the two types of values you can have?
Liberal and Traditional values
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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
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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
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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
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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
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What is history?
How the past effects us today and we interpret the past
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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
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How did revisionists view American Indians?
- peaceful - in harmony with nature - spiritual, conservationist - victims of American atrocity
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Why was slavery dying out in the north by the late 1790s
Because farmers had very little economic motivation to use slaves
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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
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What are the ten values in their value pairs?
Individualism--> Collectivism Liberty--> Order Equality--> Hierarchy Democracy--> Authority Capitalism--> Centralization
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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
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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
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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.