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wgu hcc1 part II
History, World Civics and Economics
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Capitalism | Economics where private ownership of resources and people are largely free to make their own economic decisions |
| Free Enterprise System | Competition means competing for customers/markets; businesses try to produce what they think customers will buy at highest prices possible |
| Entrepreneurs | Creat new goods/services; use capital made in one area to another (growth); employ people; indentify needs and fill them |
| Peasants during Feudalism | Comprised largest social group; gave produce and services to the lord of manor |
| Gross Domestic Product (GND) | value of all goods and services produced within a country in one year |
| Apartheid | racist policies enforced by white dominated regime in South Africa |
| Neolithic Age | Domesticated plants and animals which initiated the rise of agriculture |
| Qin Dynasty | construction of Great Wall |
| Han Dynasty | Silk Road |
| Lenin | 1st ever Soviet project for national economic recovery and development; New Economic Policy; leader of communist revolt; arrested and exiled; pulled out of WWI; closed gap between rural and urban communities; wanted electricity for all |
| What is the impact of imports on domestic prices? | Increases consumer satisfaction; causes leakage from domestic economy; reduces multiplier effect |
| Feudalism | Medieval Europe political system composed of a set of reciprocal legal and military obligations among the warrior nobility, revolving around the three key concepts of lords, vassals and fiefs. Granted land in exchange for service |
| Imperialism | Extending a nations power by some form of power over a foreign nation |
| Mao Tse Tung | Launched cultural revolution; Great Leap Forward (alternate model for economic growth) |
| Great Leap Forward | many peasants ordered to work on infrastructure projects and production of iron and steel; private food production was banned; livestock and farm implements were brought under collective ownership |
| Start of WWI | Assanation of Archduke Fernando; Austria declared war on Serbia; Russia disagreed with war; Germans and Hungarians needed support from Berlin to attack Serbia; Germany sinks US ships |
| End of WWI | Great Depression; agriculture problems; Germans to pay reparations for all damages to allies |
| Socialism | State owns resources and makes all decisions regarding dispersement |
| Requerimeinto | A document read to natives declaring that Jesus was Christ and that the Pope had power to rule over all of the earth |
| What were the reasons American Colonies Declared Independence? | Conflicts between colonies and England; Violated compact between colonies and Britain; wanted separate from England; Right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness |
| Which cabinet has equal representation from each state? | Senate |
| Federalist Position of Electoral College | wanted direct elections for President and Vice President. One Person=One Vote; Majority= Winner |
| Antifederalist position of electoral college | opposed direct elections |
| What events fueled the pre-civil war conflict on slavery? | Territorial expansion (compromise 1850); fugitive slave act; Kansas Nebraska act |
| What is the benefit of an American 2 party system? | Allows for greater representation of the people |
| Which president initiated a diplomatic opening to China? | Richard Nixon |
| Korematsu v. United States | During WWI, American citizens of Japanese descent were relocated to confinement centers in California desert. Government argued that this action was reasonable because it prevented Japanese espionage |
| What is a Federalist? | Supportors of the constitution who advocated ratification |
| Craig v. Boren | A case involving a challenge to an Oklahoma statute allowing the sale of 3.2% beer to males over 21, but females over 18 |
| Barron v. Mayor and city council of Baltimore | (1833) Supreme court ruled that Bill of Rights applied only to the Federal Government |
| WWII | Germany invaded Poland (1939); it ended with the surrender of Germany and Japan |
| What is a Muckraker? | One who speads real or alleged scandal about another (usually for political advantage) |
| Which religion was the Maryland colony? | Catholic |
| What are Antifederalists? | Critics of the constitution who expressed concern that it seemed to possess no specific provision for the protection of natural and civil rights |
| 14th amendment | Ratified in 1868, this amendment provided citizenship to the ex slaves after the civil war and constitutionally protected equal rights under the law for all citizens |
| 15th amendment | 1870, this amendment prohibited the denial or abridgement of the right to vote by the federal government on the basis of race, color or prior condition as a slave |
| 13th amendment | Ratified in 1865, this amendment prohibited slavery and involuntary servitude |
| Which president initiated the construction of the Panama Canal (1903)? | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Which president allowed a black student to go to an all white university with the protection of the National Guard? | Kennedy |
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