Which rights are outlined in the first Bill in the Bill of Rights?
'Freedom' of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom to assemble and freedom to petition the government.
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Which president made the Louisiana Purchase?
Thomas Jefferson
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What was the traditional way to create goods?
Hand created, with quality over quantity.
100
What was the name of the movie that we watched in class?
Glory
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What is at the center of history?
Arguement
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How many amendments are in the Bill of Rights?
10
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Who were the most well known explorers sent out by Thomas Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Purchase?
Louis and Clark
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What was the industrialized version of creating goods?
Waterwheels would turn the shafts to power the machines, and quantity increased and quality became standardized.
200
What is the common belief that people have regarding the civil war?
People assume it is only about the issues of slavery.
300
What types of reasoning did we learn about?
Generalization reasoning, Cause and Effect Reasoning and Comparison reasoning.
300
Which rights involve the court systems?
Amendments 5,6,7, and 8
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Which war was prompted by the annexation of Texas?
The Mexican American War
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What was the name of the group of girls who worked in the Lowel mills?
Mill Girls
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What was the 'Final Straw' that caused the Southern states to break away from the Union?
Abraham Lincoln was elected as president.
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What are the elements of generalization reasoning?
Part, whole and sample.
400
What does the 8th amendment 'guarentee'?
'Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted'.
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What effect did the gold rush of 1849 have?
Hundreds of thousands left their homes in the search for gold. Enough people lived in what is now California that it was considered for statehood.
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What things improved as the Industrial Revolution occured?
Transportation, manufacturing and trade.
400
What was the name of the first company of African American soldiers?
The Massachusetts 54th
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Cause, effect and connector. Which reasoning is this?
Cause and Effect reasoning.
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Why was the 'Quartering Troops' (3) amendment included in the Bill of Rights?
This amendment was included because the British soldiers who had occupied the colonies had the right to be quartered without compensation in the colonists houses, and the people of America didn't want to have that problem.
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What effect did Westward expansion have on the nation at large?
As more and more people flocked to new states, the southern slave states began to lose the fairness in government.
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What happened, causing the Mill Owners to decrease wages?
Competition
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What did the immigration of people coming in from other countries have on the US?
As more people came to the US, they came to the North because the north had more jobs, so the population increased and the number of representatives in the House increased as well.