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05/21/2008

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Term
The belief that the people living in a region should decide key issues is?
Definition
popular sovereignty
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Which of the following terms describes the division of government into three branches?
Definition
separation of powers
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People who come to a country to settle are called
Definition
immigrants
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What idea of Eli Whitney transformed manufacturing by making each copy of a manufactured item exactly alike?
Definition
interchangeable parts
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What did Sequoya invent for the Cherokee people?
Definition
A written language
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Which branch of the government has the powers to pass laws?
Definition
legislative branch
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What practice became known as the spoils system?
Definition
elected officials rewarding political backers with government jobs
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A person who put the interests of his or her state or region ahead of what was best for the rest of the nation was demonstrating what altitude?
Definition
sectionalism
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What was the name for the journey made by the Cherokee after they were removed from there lands by force?
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Trail of tears
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Which document set up the federal court system?
Definition
the federal judiciary Act of 1789
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Citizens vote for their political representatives in governments shaped by the political principle of
Definition
republicanism
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Why did Hamilton want to place tariffs on foreign goods?
Definition
all of the above
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Which invention did Samuel F.B Morse create, and what is its affects?
Definition
telegraph allowed people to communicate over long distances
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Which of the following is true about James Madison?
Definition
all are true
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What was one northern strategy for winning the civil war?
Definition
to cut off the souths imports and exports with a naval blockade
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who commanded the Texas forces at the battle of Alamo?
Definition
William Travis
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What impact did Sacagewea have on American history?
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She helped a u.s. expedition explore the Louisiana territory
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The idea of spreading political power to the people and ensuring majority rule was characteristic of
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Jacksonian democracy
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For what period of time is a presidents term of office?
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4 years
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People who went to California during the gold rush were known as
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forty-niners
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The person who assassinated President Lincoln was
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John Wilkes Booth
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A states representation int he house of representatives is based on
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the size of the States population
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How did congress finally agree to address George Washington, the first president?
Definition
Mr. President
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Who operated schools to educate former slaves?
Definition
Freedmens Bereau
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what group of Americans sought religious freedom in the west?
Definition
Mormons
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The fifteenth Amendment gave which of the following groups the right to vote?
Definition
African American men
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what were the black codes?
Definition
southern laws designed to limit the right s of African Americans
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what did South Carlina threaten to do because of the tariff of Abominations?
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secade from the union
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how are members of the supreme court chosen?
Definition
appointed by the president and confimed by the senate
Term
which of the following has the power to make treaties with foreign governments provided two thirds of the senate approve?
Definition
president
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The confederate states of America were
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the slave holding states that seceded from the union
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who is president of the senate but has no vote unless the senate is equally divided?
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vice president
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Appomattox Court House is important because it was
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the site were Robert E.Lee surrendered to Ulysses S.Grant
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what gave African Americans full citizenship?
Definition
fourteenth amendment
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A severe food shortage that results in widespread hunger and death is known as
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a famine
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