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C.L. TEST 161-180 Flashcards

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Due to the military becoming an “all-volenteer” program, this organization disbanded.

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  1. What is the Selective Service System?
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This program was active in 1949 through 1973

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  1. What is the Selective Service System?
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This firms when twelve people are chosen for their impartiality.

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  1. What is a jury?
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These people have the job of deciding whether someone is guilty or innocent.

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  1. What is a jury?
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This case was brought about by the Brown family of Topeka, Kansas.

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  1. What was the Brown v. Board of Education?
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This case was meant to change pervious laws that state that segregation was okay as long as the separate facilities are created equal.

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  1. What was the Brown v. Board of Education?
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The head of the Department of State.

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  1. What is the Secretary of State?
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This person is the highest ranking officer after the President of the United States.

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  1. What is the Secretary of State?
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A play by the Scottish author James Matthew Berrie.

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  1. What is Peter Pan?
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This play is about a boy who lives in Neverland.

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  1. What is Peter Pan?
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An American author of the 19th century.

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  1. Who was Edgar Allen Poe?
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Some of this authors works are “The Raven”, “Murders of the Red Rouge”, and “The Bells”.

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  1. Who was Edgar Allen Poe?
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Written by Alex Haley

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  1. What is ROOTS?
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This book took 12 years to write and win a Pulitzer Prize.

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  1. What is ROOTS?
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A novel written by Nathaniel Harthrone.

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  1. What is the Scarlet Letter?
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This novel took place in 17th century New England.

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This novelist and short-story writer lived from 1804 through 1864.

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  1. Who was Nathaniel Harthrone?
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This person’s ancestors participated in the Salem Witch Trials.

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  1. Who was Nathaniel Harthrone?
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An important battle fought in the Civil War.

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  1. What was the Battle of Chancellorsville?
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The southern was led by General Robert E. Lee, and conquered the northern army in this Civl War battle.

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  1. What was the Battle of Chancellorsville?
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A skilled frontier trapper and guide of the 19th century.

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  1. Who was Kit Carson?
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This person served as a Union general of the Civil War.

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  1. Who was Kit Carson?
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A solider and political leader of the 19th century.

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  1. Who was Sam Houston?
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This person help Texas win independence from Mexico.

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  1. Who was Sam Houston?
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Often thought as a character of fiction.

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  1. Who was Jean Lafitte?
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This French pirate was active around New Orleans.

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  1. Who was Jean Lafitte?
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A political party that began in the 1820s.

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  1. What is the Democratic Party?
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This party opposed the National Bank, to name one opposition.

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  1. What is the Democratic Party?
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The boundary line between southern Pennsylvania and northern Maryland.

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  1. What is the Mason-Dixon Line?
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This boundary line was symbolic between the division of slaveholding states and free states.

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  1. What is the Mason-Dixon Line?
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A tribe of Native Americans.

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  1. Who are the Navahos?
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This tribe was forced to move by General Kit Carson.

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  1. Who are the Navahos?
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A Shawnee chief of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

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  1. Who was Tecumseh?
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This chief supported the British.

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  1. Who was Tecumseh?
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A war between Britain and the U.S.

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  1. What was the War of 1812?
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This war was fought between 1812 and 1815.

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  1. What was the War of 1812?
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A network of house that abolitionists used to help slaves escape to freedom.

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  1. What was the Underground Railroad?
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This helped slaves escape to the northern states or Canada.

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  1. What was the Underground Railroad?
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An American general of the Revolutionary War.

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  1. Who was Benedict Arnold?
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This general betrayed America and fled to Britain.

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  1. Who was Benedict Arnold?

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