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| How was maize created? | show 🗑
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| What is the significance of plants as beans, squash, chilies, and maize to understanding the development of the first civilizations in North America. | show 🗑
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| How did the Anasazi tribe respond to the environmental changes that started around 900 C.E.? | show 🗑
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| Wo found the tribe that came to be known the Aztecs? | show 🗑
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| What is a "tributary empire"? | show 🗑
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| Why did Native Americans in some regions of pre-Columbian North America choose not to farm? | show 🗑
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| Why was the Powhatan Confederacy formed? | show 🗑
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| What was the "Colombian Exchange"? | show 🗑
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| show | October 19, 1781
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| show | 1/5th
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| show | This term refers to the practice of mothers and wives helping to sustain American values and raise a new generation of concerned citizens" during the Revolutionary War.
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| What does the term "manumission" mean/refer to? | show 🗑
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| What does the term "primogeniture" mean? | show 🗑
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| Where did many Loyalists go after the Revolutionary War? | show 🗑
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| Who was Baron Friedrich von Steuben? | show 🗑
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| show | He did this because he knew that his soldier's morale was low due to so many recent loses and many of their enlistments were about up. He wanted to improve their morale so that more would re-enlist.
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| show | Indentured servants
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| What products did the New England colonies produce that made them the second largest "economic powerhouse" among the 13 Colonies? | show 🗑
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| What product made Virginia the number one economic powerhouse among the 13 Colonies? | show 🗑
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| show | 1.) Rhode Island 2.) New Hampshire; 3.) Connecticut; 4.) Massachusetts
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| List the names of the four (4) Middle Colonies. | show 🗑
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| List the names of the five (5) Southern Colonies. | show 🗑
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| What does the term "Enlightenment" mean/ refer to? | show 🗑
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| What did Enlightenment Thinkers believe where religion was concerned? | show 🗑
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| show | 1. A Supreme Court; 2. 13 district courts; 3. 3 circuit courts; 4. Empowered the Supreme Court to review state court decisions; 5. Empowered the Supreme Court to nullify state laws that violated the Constitution or any treaties made.
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| What were the Bill of Rights and why were they added to the Constitution? | show 🗑
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| What does the term "civil liberties" mean? | show 🗑
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| show | Otherwise known as "Citizen Genet", he was a French diplomatic ambassador who was sent to try to gather support for the French Revolution among Americans.
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| What were "Democratic - Republican Societies"? | show 🗑
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| What happened during the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794? | show 🗑
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| What were two (2) things that resulted from the Treaty of Greenville? | show 🗑
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| Why did President Washington send Chief Justice John Jay to England in early 1794? | show 🗑
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| Why could "long staple cotton" be harvested more economically than "short staple cotton"? | show 🗑
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| show | 1.) An increase in the demand for cotton worldwide; 2.) The invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney; 3.) A nearly unlimited pool of very cheap laborers because of slavery in the United States.
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| List 3 technological developments that "set the stage" for rapid expansion of cotton production. | show 🗑
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| show | A change in consumer preferences from clothing made out of of materials to clothing made out of cotton, which was much softer and more comfortable to wear.
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| How did the cotton gin improve the cotton production process? | show 🗑
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| show | This term refers to the states that had soil that was best suited for growing cotton including: Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, & Louisiana. These states were named this due to the color of the soil.
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| show | Two - thirds of the world's cotton was produced in this region by 1850.
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| show | The Boston Associates turned to young women from farms where most New Englanders still lived.
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| What does the term "Manifest Destiny" mean/ refer to? | show 🗑
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| show | 1.) Land speculators - Wanted to extend the nation's railroads into the west; 2.) Farmers - Wanted access to cheap farm land; 3.) Protestant leaders - Wanted to ensure a Protestant United States, not a Catholic Mexico controlling the continent.
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| show | Some did not want to become Americans because they thought that it would bring an end to their cultural identity (EX: Mexicans living in California before it was annexed).
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| Explain what each side received as part of the Adams - Onis Treaty of 1819. | show 🗑
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| What does the term "Tejanos" mean/ refer to? | show 🗑
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| show | An agent who received a land grant from the Spanish or Mexican government in return for organizing settlements.
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| List three (3) core principles of the Whig party. | show 🗑
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| show | He contributed to this by continuing President Jackson's Indian Removal policies, which had been enacted to facilitate "Manifest Destiny" ideals (i.e. westward expansion).
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