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C.L. Test 161-180 Flashcards

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1
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When was the selective service system around? 161

A

140 through 1973

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2
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What’s the SSS do? 161

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Oversees the induction of military people

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3
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How many people are in a jury? 162

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12

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4
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How many people are in a grand jury? 162

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13-23

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5
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What family brought a case to Supreme Court? 163

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The brown family

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Who was the case against? 163

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Topeka Kansas board of education

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What’s th Secretary of State do? 164

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Head of the department of state

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What is the 2nd highest authority in the USA? 164

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The Secretary of State

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9
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What was Peter Pan? 165

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A Scottish play

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10
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Who wrote Peter Pan? 165

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An American author of the 19th century

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11
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What tragic thing happened in Edgar Allen poes past? 166

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He was orphaned

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12
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What was ROOTS? 167

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A poem

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Who wrote ROOTS? 167

A

Alex Haley

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14
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Who wrote the scarlet letter? 168

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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15
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Wo was scarlet letters about? 168

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Hester prynne

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16
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Who was Nathaniel Hawthorne? 169

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American novelist and short story writer

17
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What did Nathaniel hawthorns family participate in? 169

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The Salem witch trials and the Quaker prosecutions

18
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What war was the Battle of Chancellorsville include in? 170

A

The civil war

19
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Who won the civil war? 170

A

The southern army

20
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What was one of kit Carson’s jobs? 171

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A frontier trapper

21
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What was another one of kit Carson’s jobs? 171

A

He was a guide of the 19th century

22
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Who was Sam Houston? 172

A

A soldier and political leader

23
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What’d Sam Houston do? 172

A

He led the texans to independence from mexico

24
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Was jean lafitte real?173

A

Yes

25
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What did jean lafitte do?173

A

He was a pirate

26
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When did the Democratic Party begin?174

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1820s

27
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What is one thing the Democratic Party generally believes in?

A

No national banks

28
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What was the mason Dixon line made for? 175

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To be the boundary between north and the south

29
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Who laid down the mason Dixon line? 175

A

Charles mason and Jeremiah Dixon

30
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Who are the Navahos? 175

A

Native American tribe

31
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Where is the reservation for the Navahos? 176

A

Sw us

32
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Who are Tecumseh? 177

A

A Shawnee chief

33
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What’d Tecumseh do.? 177

A

Fight the American settlers

34
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What was the war of 1812? 178

A

Britain vs usa

35
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When did the war of 1812 last? 178

A

1812-1815

36
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What’d the Underground Railroad do? 179

A

Help slaves escape

37
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Who worked the Underground Railroad? 179

A

Abolitionist

38
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Who was Benedict Arnold? 180

A

A general in the revolutionary war

39
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What is a Benedict Arnold? 180

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A traitor

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