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AGRICULTURE
CLIMATE
CULTURE
DEFORESTATION
The process of farming and growing crops.
The average weather temperature of a place over many years.
The way of life for a group of people.... Includes things like cl…
The process of cutting down trees.
AGRICULTURE
The process of farming and growing crops.
CLIMATE
The average weather temperature of a place over many years.
conflict
culture
environment
resources
a struggle between opposing people or points of view
the beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of pe…
the surroundings in which something lives
materials that people can use to make what they need or want
conflict
a struggle between opposing people or points of view
culture
the beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of pe…
Samuel Adams
George ... Washington
Mayflower Compact
Declaration of Independence
American patriot... 1722-1803... An organizer of Boston's Sons of…
1732-1799... Commander in chief of the Continental Army during t…
Set of rules for self-governance established by the English se…
Mid-June 1776, a five-man committee including Thomas Jefferson…
Samuel Adams
American patriot... 1722-1803... An organizer of Boston's Sons of…
George ... Washington
1732-1799... Commander in chief of the Continental Army during t…
Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia
Mesopotamians
Cuneiform
Because they kept written records, this civilization is the fi…
Is also known as the fertile cresent.
Developed the idea of 60 seconds per minute and 60 minutes per…
One of the earliest known written languages developed by the S…
Mesopotamia
Because they kept written records, this civilization is the fi…
Mesopotamia
Is also known as the fertile cresent.
Silt
Ziggurat
irrigation
division of labor
A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks
A pyramid shaped temple tower that the Sumerians built the top…
A way of supplying water to an area of land
the breaking down of a job into separate, smaller tasks to be…
Silt
A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks
Ziggurat
A pyramid shaped temple tower that the Sumerians built the top…
Big idea
Big idea
Big idea
Big idea
Maps are representations of places. A map is not a place
One difficulty with maps is that they try to represent a three…
People who create maps select and organize the features of pla…
Peoples purposes, knowledge, and perspective ( or point of vie…
Big idea
Maps are representations of places. A map is not a place
Big idea
One difficulty with maps is that they try to represent a three…
Civilian Conservation Corps
Tennessee Valley Authority
Agricultural Adjustment Act
Works progress administration
Hired young men to plat trees, build houses, make trials, and…
built dams to prevent flooding and generate power/electricity…
Paid farmers not to plant all there crops
Built large structures like museums, hospitals, airports, and…
Civilian Conservation Corps
Hired young men to plat trees, build houses, make trials, and…
Tennessee Valley Authority
built dams to prevent flooding and generate power/electricity…
Reasons the Stock Market Crash of 1929…
Reasons why the Great Depression affect…
Purpose of the New Deal
Reason the Great Depression ended
Nearly half of America's banks had failed and unemployment was…
People who lost their jobs could not feed themselves, pay thei…
The New Deal hoped to provide Relief from the suffering caused…
In 1945 and 1946 Congress repealed the excess-profits tax, cut…
Reasons the Stock Market Crash of 1929…
Nearly half of America's banks had failed and unemployment was…
Reasons why the Great Depression affect…
People who lost their jobs could not feed themselves, pay thei…
Many trace the beginnings of the americ…
In 1764, parliament passed the blank th…
Blank is another name for taxes
Blank is the name of the officials who…
Proclamation of 1763
Sugar Act
Duties
Customs officials
Many trace the beginnings of the americ…
Proclamation of 1763
In 1764, parliament passed the blank th…
Sugar Act
Railroad Baron
Standard Gauge
Rebate
Pool
Powerful business leader who controlled major railroads.
The agreed upon distance by all companies in railroad business.
A discount or return of part of a payment.
A group sharing some activity, for example, railroad barons wh…
Railroad Baron
Powerful business leader who controlled major railroads.
Standard Gauge
The agreed upon distance by all companies in railroad business.
steel
Bessemer and Carnegie
6 main factors during the industrial gr…
railroads
the biggest single factor in the industrial growth
the two worked together and advanced the steel inudstry
Railroads, inventions, natural resources, people, capital
Fill in the Blank: _________________ necessary to transport ra…
steel
the biggest single factor in the industrial growth
Bessemer and Carnegie
the two worked together and advanced the steel inudstry
Ice age
About 20,000 years ago
berrying strait
Large animals began to cross the land b…
A long period of extreme cold
Ice Age occurred
narrow stretch of water that separates Asia from North America
Theory how early people migrated
Ice age
A long period of extreme cold
About 20,000 years ago
Ice Age occurred
What territory did the U.S. gain after…
Nativists
Homogeneous
Suffragists
Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippine Islands, and Guam
People in a nation wanting only people native and opposed immi…
Those who are of the same kind
People advocating the rights of women
What territory did the U.S. gain after…
Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippine Islands, and Guam
Nativists
People in a nation wanting only people native and opposed immi…
Corporations
Stocks
Free Enterprise
Sherman Trust Act
businesses that sell portions of ownership called stock shares
Portions of ownership in business
Business is owned by private citizens
very weak; some states began to regulate business but corporat…
Corporations
businesses that sell portions of ownership called stock shares
Stocks
Portions of ownership in business
toleration
repeal
monopoly
economic
permission to exercise a religion other than the established r…
to revoke or withdrawl
exclusive control of a commodity or service in a particular ma…
production, distribution and use of income, wealth, and commod…
toleration
permission to exercise a religion other than the established r…
repeal
to revoke or withdrawl
Expressed Powers
Checks and Balances
Popular Sovereignty
Seperation of Powers
powers specifically granted to the national government
Each branch of government is able to check, or restrain, the p…
Population or public has the right to rule
A split of authority among legislative, executive, and judicia…
Expressed Powers
powers specifically granted to the national government
Checks and Balances
Each branch of government is able to check, or restrain, the p…
Elisha Otis made?
Thomas Edison made?
Alexander Gram Bell made?
Lewis E Waterman made?
Helped stop elevators from falling
Lightbulb, universal stock ticker, quadruple telegraph, phonog…
Telephone
Capillary feed fountain pen
Elisha Otis made?
Helped stop elevators from falling
Thomas Edison made?
Lightbulb, universal stock ticker, quadruple telegraph, phonog…
Laissez Faire
Pinckney Treaty
William Henry Harrison
Battle of Tippecanoe
the political stance that the government should be as small as…
Guaranteed the Americans' right to ship their goods down the M…
governor of the Indiana territory who lead 1000 soldiers to a…
high point of Native American opposition to settlement.
Laissez Faire
the political stance that the government should be as small as…
Pinckney Treaty
Guaranteed the Americans' right to ship their goods down the M…
what amendment includes citizenship
a person with certain rights and duties…
what party group is all the way on the…
what is the first steps of the election…
14th amendment
citizen
communism
primaries and caucuses
what amendment includes citizenship
14th amendment
a person with certain rights and duties…
citizen
What are the 3 branches of government
What are the 2 houses that make up the…
What are the Senate and House of Repres…
How many Representatives are there
Legislative, Executive, Judicial
The Senate and the House of Representatives
The Houses of Congress
435
What are the 3 branches of government
Legislative, Executive, Judicial
What are the 2 houses that make up the…
The Senate and the House of Representatives