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Name of the first permanent French settlement in the "New World"

Quebec

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Name of the first permanent English settlement in the "New World ''

Jamestown

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Name of the representative body established in Jamestown.

House of Burgessess

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Unusual foodstuff Jamestown colonists indulged in.

Rats, Cats, Humans, Dogs

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Nickname for land ships given during WWI.

Tanks

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5 war technologies that affected WWI.

Submarines

Tanks

Artillery (Heavy)

Machine Gun

Poison Gas

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Native American movement that involved ancestor worship to drive American settlers from the land.

Ghost Dance Movement

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Man who advocated financial prosperity for African Americans before political activism.

Booker T Washington

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Man who overshadowed the above gentleman and advocated political activism as a means to financial prosperity.

W.E.B DuBois

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Name of the Democratic party machine that ran New York in the late 1800s.

Tammany Hall

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Term that refers to major railroad tracks.

Trunk Line

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The literal meaning of "laissez-faire"?

"leave it alone" or "let it be"

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Adam Smith's principle articulates his view toward government regulation of business.

Invisible Hand

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Book which Adam Smith wrote which articulates the above principle of laissez-faire

Wealth of Nations

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Meaning "*man lover", this term has become synonymous with "charity"

Philanthropist

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List the first two political parties in the United States.

Federalist, Democratic-Republicans

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What is the collective name given to the first 10 amendments to the Constitution?

Bill of rights

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18

Author of the Star Spangled Banner (our national anthem).

Francis Scott Key

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The Star Spangled Banner memorialized the fight between the British and the U.S. at what fort?

Fort McHenry

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Nickname for "old Republicans"

Quids

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Nickname of the U.S. warship Constitution

Old Ironsides

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Native American leader who tried to unite the tribes against the U.S.

Tecumseh

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Cost of the Louisiana Purchase.

$15 Milllon

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Man responsible for the downfall of King Charles I of England.

Oliver Cromwell

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Nickname given to the winter of 1609-10 in Jamestown.

Starving Time

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Nickname of the sweet substance Europeans grew fond of during the Crusades.

White Death

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Program that promised land as an incentive to colonists or those who paid the fare of passage for colonists

Headright System

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Term that refers to the belief that people need not obey any form of law

Antinomianism

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Term that refers to the buying and selling activities between three parties.

Triangular trade

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The literal meaning of "Pennsylvania"

Penn's Woods

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Title of the governor of Maryland

Lord Baltimore

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The official name of the church that was attended by Quakers.

Religious Society of Friends

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Term referring to the horrendous trip made by slaves from West Africa to the U.S.

Middle Passage

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Georgia was dominantly settled by British criminals, What was their crime?

Debt

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Term that applies to the collective goals of William Penn in his colony.

Holy Experiment

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Name of the uprising in England that replaced King James I with William and Mary?

Glorious Revolution

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Term that refers to the buying and/or selling of political favors

Grafts

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Name of the battle which proved that Indian garments and dancing could not stop bullets.

Battle of Wounded Knee

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Term used to describe the government policy of culturally absorbing Indians into the American mainstream.

Assimilation

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Term used to describe a rich strike of ore.

Lode

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Term used to describe the vast arid territory that included the Great Plains, the The Rocky Mountains, and the Western Plateau.

Great American Desert

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Term used to describe farmers who built their homes out of grassy bricks.

Sodbusters

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Invented by Joseph Glidden, this enabled settlers to fence in their property despite the lack of wood on the plains.

Barbed Wire

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Supreme Court case which adopted the policy of segregation by affirming the belief that it is possible to be, "separate, but equal"

Plessy v Ferguson

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Supreme Court case that overturned the above policy by stating that, "separate, by definition, is unequal."

Brown v Board of Education

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Law that prohibited trade with England and France

Non-Intercourse act

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Group who received tribute from Washington and Adams in exchange for avoiding U.S. ships.

Barbary Pirates

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Power granted to the Supreme Court as a result of the case of Marbury v. Madison.

Judicial Review

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Supreme Court case in which John Marshall declared that a contract for a private corporation could not be altered by the state.

Dartmouth College v. Woodward

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Supreme Court Case in which John Marshall declared that the federal government has implied powers to help govern and that federal laws are supreme over state laws.

McCullough v. Maryland

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Economic package proposed by Henry Clay.

American System

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A general term used to describe the two-term presidency of James Monroe.

Era of Good Feelings

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Name of the free state that entered the union to balance the entrance of the slave state of Missouri.

Maine

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Name of the inventor of the steamboat.

Robert Fulton

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Name of the last Federalist Supreme Court Justice

John Marshall

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The two largest immigrant groups during the 1830s and 1840s were what nationality?

German and Irish

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57

What happened on August 6, 1945?

Bombing of Hisoshima and Nagasaki

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What happened on December 7, 1941?

Bombing of Pearl Harbor

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What was the code name used to refer to the research for the atomic bomb?

Manhattan Project

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What was the nickname of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima?

Little Boy

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What was the name (in German) of the German Air Force?

Luftwaffe

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What German word was used to describe Hitler's new style of "quick attacks" on his enemies?

Blitzkrieg

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Translate "Volkswagen" into English.

People's car

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Translate "Ein volk, ein reich, ein fuhrer" into English.

One people, one realm, one leader

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What does NATO stand for?

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

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What was the name of the former British prime minister who coined the phrase? "iron curtain"?

Winston Churchill

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What United Nations body sets policy?

General Assembly

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Term referring to the shift from rural living to city living.

Urbanization

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Term referring to the forced march of the Cherokees from their tribal lands in Georgia.

Trail of Tears

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The institution of "King Caucus" was replaced by what practice?

Nomination Convention

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The Age of Jackson is also referred to as what?

Era of the Common Man

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The gifting of government jobs, or plums", as thanks for past service is known as what?

Spoils System

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Nickname of Andrew Jackson.

Old Hickory

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The man who was listed as the vice-presidential candidate on both the Adams and Jackson tickets in the election of 1824.

John C. Calhoun

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Term referring to anti-immigration proponents

Nativism

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Southern term used about slavery, once the term slavery became uncomfortable to say

Peculiar Institution

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Nickname Southern Democrats gave to Southern Republicans.

Scalawag

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Nickname Southern Democrats gave to Northerners who moved to the South

Carpetbagger

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The man who shot Abraham Lincoln.

John Wilkes Booth

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Term referring to the agricultural practice where landowners would provide seed, tools, and tenancy in return for labor and a large share of the harvest.

Sharecropping

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Scandal involving insiders giving stock to influential members of Congress to avoid investigation of the profits they were making.

Credit Mobilier affair

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Nickname used to describe the secret machination of the KKK?

Invisible Empire

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Name of Southern Democrats who vowed to win their states back from Republicans and their freedmen allies.

Redeemers

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Collective name for laws passed to restrict the rights and movements of newly freed African Americans.

Black Codes

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British policy which allowed colonists to violate trade laws due to lack of enforcement.

Salutary neglect

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Term referring to the period where the paradigm shifted from believing God granted authority to the government to people granted authority to the government.

Enlightenment

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Term that refers to a "blanket" search warrant.

Writ of assistance

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What were the Intolerable Acts known as in England?

Coercive Acts (of 1774)

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Treaty that ended the French and Indian War.

Treaty of Paris of 1763/Peace of Paris

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Term that refers to the outbreak of religious conversion in the colonies during the 1730s and 1740s.

Great Awakening

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Slogan that encapsulated Teddy Roosevelt's campaign agenda in the election of 1912.

New Nationalism

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Slogan that encapsulated Woodrow Wilson's campaign agenda in the election of 1912.

New Freedom

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Name of the cable suggests an alliance between Germany and Mexico

Zimmermann Telegram

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Term referring to the right of people to govern themselves.

Self Determination

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Alliance made up of Great Britain, France, and Russia in WWI.

Triple Entente

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Name of the group that seized power in Russia in 1917.

Bolsheviks

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Serbian nationalist who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

Gavrilo Princip

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A cease-fire

Armistice

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Name given to the thin strip of territory separating the trenches of warring armies in WWI.

No man's land

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List the names of the "Big Four"

Georges Clemenceau- France

David Lloyd George- UK

Vittorio Emanuele Orlando- Italy

Woodrow Wilson- USA

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