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stipend
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fixed salary
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Nat Turner's Rebellion
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1831
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NickName For Texas
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LoneStar
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edict of millan
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legalizing christianity
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Byzantine Empire
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Eastern ROman Empire
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New Harmony, Indiana
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failed utopia sight
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vizier
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cheif minister, 2nd to Pharoah
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Urdu-Hindi
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A language that combines Persian-Arabic and native Indian elements. Urdu is the Muslim version of the Language, and Hindi is the Hindu version.
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Speaking through the angel was...
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Allah
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silent majority
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those mainstream Amercian's who supported Nixon's polices
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jacobin
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network of political groups throughout France
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The Black Plague was spread by:
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Fleas
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After Lincoln's inauguration, what Fort off of Virginia requested supplies?
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Fort Sumter
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James Lawrence
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"dont give up the ship"
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JAMES BUCHANAN (D) 1857-1861
Dred Scott decision
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Court denies freedom
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What disapperance greatly changed the Plains Indians way of life?
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Buffalo
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Inquisition
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a court established by the Catholic Church in 1232 to discover and try heretics; also called the Holy Office
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What city was considered the "capital" of black America in the 1920s?
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Harlem
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True or False: The Berlin Crisis caused the East Germans to begin building the Berlin Wall.
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True
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Malinche
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Female Indian slave who served as interpreter for Cortes
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Indulgences
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A get out of purgatory free card
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the british believed that hundus and muslims could live in peace and harmony in one india
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False
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significance of 476 C.E.
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year Roman Empire fell
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procedural justice
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apply legal procedures fairly, due process
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Basic social, economic, and political arrangements were centered around the...
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Feudal System
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CONDOTTIERI
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MILITARY BROKERS FROM WHOM ONE COULD HIRE A MERCENARY ARMY.
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Assimilation
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the adoption of a conqueror's culture by a conquered people
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Compromise of 1877
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Southern democrats allow the republican (Rutherford B. Hayes) to become president. Hayes and congressional republicans promise to pull all federal troops out of the south, thus putting southern white democrats in full control of the legislatures with a friend in the white house.
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probe
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to search into or examine thoroughly; question closely:
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Boston Police Strike
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the most celebrated postwar labor dispute. September 1919 most of Boston's police force went on strike. Calvin Coolidge, this point a Massachusetts governor, mobilized the National Guard to keep order. Coolidge said "There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, anytime" the policemen weren't allowed back into service, brought about the rise of Coolidge, September 1919, 75% of police officers went on strike after police commissioner Curtis refused to recognize their union. Public order quickly collapsed.
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Andrew Jackson
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wins election of 1824; vetoes more than any other president; in favor of national power (not bank); relocated millions of native americans west; states don't have power to overturn federal law
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pope
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bishop of Rome, head of Roman Catholic church
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Common Law
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Certain rules that are always in effect (ex. Killing is wrong)
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Augustus Longstreet
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Author who wrote Georgia Scenes (1835) glorifying life on the frontier.
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Cultural diffusion
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The spreading of ideas or products from one culture to another
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Fidel Castro
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came to power Jan1, 1959. after guerilla warfare with Batista. Planned a social and agrarian revolution and opposed widespread control of economic Cuba.Dictator and communist.
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iron curtain
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The communist countries of E. Europe came to be called satellite nations- although not under communist rule they had to remain communist and friendly to the SU
~with the iron curtain separating the communist nations of E Europe from the West WWII era had come to an end and the Cold War began
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The Human Genome Project
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An international scientific research project with a primary goal to determine the sequence of chemical base pairs which make up DNA and to identify and map the approximately 20,000-25,000 genes of the human genome from both a physical and functional standpoint
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Heroin
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- narcotic from seeds of poppy plant (MOST commonly USED illegal narcotic)
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radiocarbon dating
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a way of measuring the radioactivity of historic artifacts to determine how old they are
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All of the following have historically been considered to be the causes of World War I EXCEPT
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American Isolation
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impiety
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lack of piety; lack of reverence for God or sacred things; irreverence.
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what was designed to help new weak northern factories
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protective tarriff
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Truman Doctrine - Containment
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US involvement in Vietnam, Korea, Marshall Plan & Cuba were all part of this
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slash-and-burn agriculture
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a farming technique in which trees are cut down and burned to clear and fertilize the land
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dorothea dix
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A reformer and pioneer in the movement to treat the insane as mentally ill, beginning in the 1820's, she was responsible for improving conditions in jails, poorhouses and insane asylums throughout the U.S. and Canada. She succeeded in persuading many states to assume responsibility for the care of the mentally ill. She served as the Superintendant of Nurses for the Union Army during the Civil War.
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artisan
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a worker who is skilled in making a particular item by hand
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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SCLC, civil rights organization that advocated nonviolent protest, formed in 1957 by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other leaders
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Richard M. Nixon
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won election of 1968, ran as anti-hippie candidate, defended the silent majority, did not protest, worked hard, flexible w/ policies, had to deal with Vietnam
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Ahura Mazda was the main god of what Persian religion (Favored by Darius)?
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Zoroastianism
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What word did John White find on a tree near Roanoke?
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Croatoan
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Proclamation Line of 1763
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royal decree by George III that prohibited westward expansion beyond the Appalachian Mountains so they could create harmony with the Native Americans.
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Cuban missile crisis
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1962, crisis that arose between the US and SU over a soviet attempt to deploy nuclear missiles in Cuba
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Workers' Defense Committee (KOR)
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-a Polish civil society group that emerged under communist rule to give aid to prisoners detained after labor strikes
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Pearl Harbor Attack
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Attack of army base by the Japanese, brought the US into war
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If you were a cowhand in Texas, you would most likely be a veteran from the...
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Confederate Army
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Wounded Knee Massacre
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U.S soldiers open fire on a group of Sioux Indians in South Dakota on Dec. 29 1890 killing b/w 200 and 300. The massacre came to symbolize the brutality associated with the conquest of the West. 350 indians met here and met military, last resistance against U.S. and still remain on reservations.
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John Brown and Harpers Ferry
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John Brown attacked Harpers Ferry that had military weapons in it.
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Samuel Gompers
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The AF of L. It was a successful union that did quite well
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What statement concerning the etical system of early Islam is NOT correct?
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the desire to convert new populations to Islam
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Committee on Public Information
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its job was to sell WWII to Amrica through propaganda.
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Scandolous-she wrote a constitution to help her peeps. culture, rights, power they
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over threw her 1893, she appealed to US to reverse the cou. they requested that harrison annex...G. cleaveladnd demaded that they give controll back to the queen. wanted no blood shed...1885
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What did Coolidge do regarding Teapot Dome?
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Called for the arrest of all of those involved
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