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Final Exam Review Practice

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Abolitionists   show
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show To use your natural resources in order to survive in a new environment  
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Adobe Pueblo   show
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Altitude   show
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Amendment   show
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Anasazi   show
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Anti-Federalists   show
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Archeology   show
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Article of Confederation   show
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show A Meso American Native American tribe that used chinampas (floating gardens) to adapt to their tropical climate  
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show A change in sea level due to glaciers created a land bridge allowing humans to migrate to North America  
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Bill of Rights   show
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show To not buy a good or service as a form of protest  
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Cash Crops   show
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show The power each of the three branches of government to make sure the other branches are doing their jobs.  
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show A group of explorers hired by President Jefferson to learn about the Louisiana Territory (Lewis & Clark, Sacagawea, Zebulon Pike)  
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Cheyenne   show
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show A 1861-1865 war between the North (Union) and the South (Confederacy) over slavery  
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Climate   show
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show People who settle in a distant land, but are still ruled by the government of their native land  
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show Trading goods between the Eastern & Western Hemispheres  
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Confederate States of America   show
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show Spanish explorers who conquer and claim new lands in America for their mother country  
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show A group of people’s way of life or A way of life shared by members of a society  
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show A climate known for a lack of precipitation and vegetation with high temperatures.  
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Eli Whitney   show
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show In the 1820s, New York City was connected to the Great Lakes region by a man made water route in New York that allowed Steamboats to transport goods  
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Executive Branch   show
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show To send goods to markets outside of a country  
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Federalism   show
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French & Indian War   show
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Fugitive Slave Act   show
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show The study of people, their environment, and their resources.  
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show Snow and Ice built up over thousands of years  
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show A style of warfare with hit and run attacks used during the Revolutionary War  
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show The lower house of Congress based on population (Today there are 435 members)  
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Humid Continental   show
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show A climate known for lots of precipitation and vegetation with high temperatures. Good for growing Cash Crops such as cotton & tobacco. (South’s climate)  
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Import   show
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show A Meso American tribe found in the Andes Mountains of South America known for using terrace farming  
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Inuit   show
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show Bringing water to dry land for farming by digging ditches. The Anasazi & Hohokam tribes used this method of farming the dry desert land.  
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Iroquois   show
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show A part of the government that interprets the laws.  
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Judicial Review   show
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show A form of measurement that uses an imaginary lines that are equal distance north or south of the equator (equator, tropic of cancer, tropic of capricorn, arctic circle)  
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show A part of the government that makes the laws (called Congress)  
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show A house made of wood, sticks, and mud used by the Iroquois tribe of New York (Often hold several families)  
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show A form of measurement for that uses imaginary lines that are east or west that stretches from the North Pole to the South Pole. (Prime Meridian)  
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show Territory purchased from France by President Jefferson for $15 million between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains  
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Loyalists   show
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show A belief that it is “God’s Will” that the United States expand its territory west (from coast to coast)  
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show A Meso American tribe in Mexico that lived in a tropical climate. In order to farm on an island in a lake they used chinampas or floating gardens.  
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show An economic theory that a nation should export more goods than it imports  
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Middle Passage   show
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Minutemen   show
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show These are materials humans take from the environment to survive and satisfy their needs  
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Natural Rights   show
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show A period of time when people got food by hunting for meat and gathering nuts & berries  
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show A law that created a government, and made slavery illegal in the western territories. Created a way for territories to become states  
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show A period of time when people got food by hunting for meat and gathering nuts & berries  
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show People during the American Revolution who wanted to become an independent nation separate from Britain  
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show A first person resource from history (newspaper or diary of a person who lived at the time of event)  
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Quipu   show
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Religious Freedom   show
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show Allowing others to practice their religion even if you do not agree with it  
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Revolutionary War   show
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show The turning point of the Revolutionary War when the Americans started winning the war against the British  
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show A feeling of loyalty to the interests of one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole (North, Midwest, South)  
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Senate   show
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show The division of the governments powers between the three branches so that no one branch gets too powerful  
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show The forcing of a human being to do labor without pay. (Treated as property/ generational)  
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show To illegally bring goods into a country (colonists smuggled tea into America to avoid paying a tax)  
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Stamp Act   show
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Steppe   show
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Surplus   show
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Terrace   show
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show A type of warfare that uses any means necessary to win. (Burning homes & crops, attacking civilians, destroying railroad & telegraph lines)  
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Triangle Trade   show
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Tropical Climate   show
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Arctic Tundra Climate   show
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show A network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape north  
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Union   show
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show When people move from farms to cities to work in factories  
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Yorktown   show
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show People who migrated to California in 1849 during the gold rush  
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