C.L. Exam 161-180

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161.

In 1973 the armed forces became this and the system was placed on stand-by.

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What is an all-volunteer military?

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161.

From 1940 through 1973, this system oversaw the drafting and induction of men into the armed forces.

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What is the selective service system?

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162.
Usually twelve people chosen for their impartially, has the job of deciding wether a person accused of a crime is guilty or innocent.

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What is a jury?

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162.

Some juried do vary on this.

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What is in number?

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163.

Represented a lawsuit that made its way to the United States Supreme Court.

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What is brown vs. board of education?

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163.
This trial was brought by this ami,y against these people. It was meant to challenge previous laws that indicated the races could be segregated as long as the facilities available were this.

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What was brought by the brown family against the Topeka, Kansas Board of Education and equal?

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164.

This person is head of the department of state of the United States.

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What is the Secretary of State?

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164.

The Secretary of State is the highest of this.

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What is ranking executive officer after the president of the United States and is responsible for maintaining and developing foreign policy and handling foreign affairs?

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165.
A play by the Scottish author James Matthew Barrie about a boy who lives in a place called “Neverland,” better known as “ Never- Never Land,” a country where a child never grows up.

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What is peter pan?

Question 9

165.

Peter brings three children from this family from London to Never-Never Land.

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What is the Darling family?

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166.

An American author of the 19th century, known for his poems of great sadness and short stories of great horror.

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Who is Edgar Allen Poe?

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166.

Edgar was the child of these types of parents.

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What were theatrical parents?

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167.
Written by Alex Haley, lattice lay unknown novelist until 1976 when ROOTS was published and which won won a special PULITZER PRIZE in 1977.

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What is ROOTS?

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167.

ROOTS research took this many years and traces Haley’s ancestry back through American slavery to its origins in Adrica.

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What was twelve years?

Question 14

168.

A novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne about Hester Pryne, a women in NEW ENGLAND who is convicted of ADULTERY.

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What is the scarlet letter?

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168.

At the beginning of the story, she is forced to wear this on her clothes.

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What is a scarlet letter “A”?

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169.

(1804-1864) American novelist and short-story writer.

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Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?

Question 17

169.

Nathaniel Hawthorne was born into this type of family.

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What is an old NEW ENGLAND one?

Question 18

170.

An important battle of the CIVIL WAR, fought in VIRGINIA in 1863 at the very beginning of the Civil War.

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What is the BATTLE OF CHANCELLORSVILLE?

Question 19

170.

The southern army was led by this man, along with this other man.

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Who was General Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson?

Question 20

171.
A skilled frontier trapper and guid of the 19th century, who helped to open the territory of CALIFORNIA to settlement from the United Sates.

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Who was Kit Carson?

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171.

Kit also served as a general on this side in the civil war.

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What was the UNION side?

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172.

A soldier and political leader of the 19th century.

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Who was Sam Houston?

Question 23

172.

Sam also served as this for the United States SENATE.

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What was president?

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173.
Often thought of as a character of fiction, he was a genuine historic figure: a French pirate of the early 19th century, active around NEW ORLEANS, Lousiana.

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Who was JEAN LAFITTE?

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173.
Jean was also this to some degree as he volunteered to ad General Andrew Jackson fighting the British in the WAR OF 1812, and he fought in the Battle of Mew Orleans.

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What was a patriot?

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174.

A political party that began in the 1820s when it split from a party called the DEMOCRATIC-REPUBLICAN PARTY.

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What is the Democratic Party?

Question 27

174.

The party generally opposed these thing.

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What was the national bank, high taxes interference with slavery, and federal for improvement in our nation?

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175.

The boundary line between southern Pennsylvania and northern Maryland.

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What is the Mason-Dixon Line?

Question 29

175.

The Mason-Dixon Line is symbolic to this.

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What is the division between slave holding states and free states?

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176.

A tribe of native Americans.

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What are the Navajos?

Question 31

176.

What are the Navajos?

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They are the most numerous tribe of native Americans.

Question 32

177.

A Shawnee chief of the late 18th as early 19th centuries.

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Who was Tecumseh?

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177.

What did he do as chief?

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He took arms and fought the movement.

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178.

This war is world famous for its ironic name.

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What is the war of 1812?

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178.

What was the war of 1812 called?

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What was the second war for independence?

Question 36

179.

This was an underground tunnel with houses used for protection.

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What is the Underground Railroad?

Question 37

179.

This women led the slaves into it.

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Who was Harriet Tubman?

Question 38

180.

An American general of the revolutionary war.

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Who was Benedict Arnold?

Question 39

180.

How did Benedict Arnold perform?

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He performed notably I’m the early days of the war.