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1249
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Kulai dies
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Mercenary
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hired soliders
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Yuan Dynasty
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established in 1279
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Ammendment 3
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No forced quartering
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Tang taizong
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began the Tang dynasty
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japan
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land of the rising sun
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Mao Zedong
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Chinese communist leader (1927-1976)
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James Madison
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"Father of the Constitution"
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Staple Crops
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Crops in high demand
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Quakers
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society of friends
protestant sect founded in the 1640's in England whose members believed that salvation was available to all people
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Genocide
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deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group
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Vietnam
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a prolonged war (1954-1975) between the communist armies of North Vietnam who were supported by the Chinese and the non-communist armies of South Vietnam who were supported by the United States
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Thomas Jefferson
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Wrote the Declairation of Independence
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Navigation Acts
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to regulate trade with England
supported the principles of mercantilism
1. Required Colonies to do most of their trading with England.
2. Forbade colonists from trading specified items England needed but could not produce. -with any other country than England
3. Required colonists to use English ships for transporting goods.
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Baron von Steuben
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will train colonial soliders(Prussian)
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Impressment
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British practice of forcing people (including U.S. citizens) to serve in the British army/navy
led to increasing tensions between Great Britain and the U.S. in the early 1800's
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42. What were the most interracial institutions in the Old South?
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churches
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Agkoe wat
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complex dedicated to hindu god vishnu
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Thurgood Marshall
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American civil rights lawyer, first black justice on the Supreme Court of the United States.
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Sudetenland
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The area near Czechoslovakia that was mainly German ethnicity that Germany took.
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Soviet statesman whose foreign policy brought an end to the Cold War and whose domestic policy introduced major reforms. Leader from (1985-1991)
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Ammendment 8
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cannot charge excessive bail, cruel and unusual punishment
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The Great Awakening
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widespread movement of evangelical christians
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Boycott
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refusal to buy goods,oftenly used to protest movements
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Philadelphia Convention
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An important meeting called by Congress in 1787.
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Elastic Clause
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Article 1, Section 8, of the Constitution that has been interpreted as giving Congress authority to stretch its delegated powers to address issues not otherwise specified in the document
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2. The main reason most European immigrants came to the United States between 1815 and 1860 was
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economic advancement
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Flappers
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Young women of the 1920s that behaved and dressed in a radical fashion
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Gerald Ford
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38th President of the United States, appointed after Nixon resigned
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Henry Kissinger
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The main negotiator of the peace treaty with the North Vietnamese; secretary of state during Nixon's presidency
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Supply-Side Economics
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economic theory that lower taxes will boost the economy as businesses and individuals invest their money, thereby creating higher tax revenue
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George Wallace
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Four time governor of Alabama. Most famous for his pro-segregation attitude and as a symbol for states' rights; runs for pres. In 1968 on American Independent Party ticket, but loses to Nixon; runs in 1972 but gets shot
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Abraham Lincoln
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16th president of the United States; president during the Civil War; believed slavery should be kept out of western territiories; issued the Emancipation Proclamation; assassinated at Ford's Theater
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Apprentice
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worked for someone skilled in a trade until they knew the specific trade
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Vasco da Gama
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1st explorer to sail to India
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Neutrality Proclamation
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Washington decides that the nation was to remain neutral in regards to any nations in war [particularly those in Europe]
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Nullification
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belief that states have the right to disobey federal laws with which they disagree
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Treaty of Paris
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peace agreement that officially ended the Revolutionary War and established British recognition of the U.S.
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3. The issues behind the Compromise of 1850 included all of the following except
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the scott case
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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36th President of the United States, 1963-1969, democrat
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Berlin Wall
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a wall separating East and West Berlin built by East Germany in 1961 to keep citizens from escaping to the West
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John Peter Zenger
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sued for Libel - printed false statements
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Tea Act
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kept duties on imported tea in place, allowed British East India Company to directley export to the colonies
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Pinckney's Treaty (1795)
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-dispute with Spain over the Florida border|
-Spain closes the port of New Orleans|
1)Spain reopened the port of New Orleans
2)the Florida border dispute was settled
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Battle of Yorktown
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last major battle of the Revolutionary War
site of British general Charles Cornwallis's surrender to the Patriots in Virginia
(1781)
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Warren G. Harding
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President who called for a return to normalcy following WWI. 1921-1923; 29th President; Republican
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Ammendment 7
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if charge is more that $20, can ask for jury trial
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Boston Tea Party
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protest against the Tea Act, group of colonists dumped 340+ chests of tea into the Boston Harbor from British tea ships
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Virginia Resolution & Kentucky Resolution
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constituted the following: if a state believes a federal law is unconstitutional, they don't have to follow it (nullification)
~were not passed
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The Tale of the Genji
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the worlds first novel, written by lady Murasaki's Shikibu
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Anne Bradstreet's poetry and midwives
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women's role in society: making babies and taking care of the house. Fear of pregnancy and the expectancy to die. Women dominated midwifery.
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what is stirict construction?
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Gov can only do what the constitution says it can do.
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Battle of New Orleans
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greatest U.S. victory in the War of 1812
took place two weeks afer a peace treaty had been signed ending the war
(1815)
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True or False- AH was for small Gov
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False, Hamilton believed Americas furture depended on a stong national gov. Although self made he did not believe in the ordinary person abilty to govern. He claimed that they where always changing.
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What similarity was there between the Puritans and the Virginia Company
regarding how they perceived their connection to the new colony they helped
to found?
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Both the Puritans and the Virginia Company don't plan on staying in America, the Virginia Company hoped to get rich quick and then go back to England, the Puritans hoped to establish a strong base so they could come back to England and establish a Puritan state.
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How many pregnancies would the average Puritan woman have? What was her attitude towards pregnancy?
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A Puritan woman would have on average 8-10 pregnancies. Women were terrified of pregnancy and expected to die. Anne Bradstreet wrote a farewell poem for her first pregnancy because she thought she was going to die.
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Which group had the most status in Puritan Society? Are there modern day values that might correlate?
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The Visible Saints had the most status in Puritan society. A modern day value that might relate to this is a college degree/education.
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