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Correct Answer

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What is one result of Teddy Roosevelt’s conservation efforts?

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Creation of US National Parks like Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon

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How did Teddy Roosevelt become President?

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President William McKinley was assassinated, forcing him into the role of President due to being the Vice-President

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What president was assassinated leading to Roosevelt becoming president?

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William McKinley

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Abraham Lincoln was elected the____president of the United States?

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16th

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What was Abraham Lincoln famous speech?

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Emancipation Proclamation

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Where did Abraham Lincoln die?

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Ford’s Theatre

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What war was Abraham Lincoln president during?

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Civil War

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How did Lincoln personally think about slavery?

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He didnt like it

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Who was the first president?

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George Washington

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Impeachment

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(especially in the US) a charge of misconduct made against the holder of a public office.

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President veto

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The power to forbid the passage of a bill into a law.

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Which amendment addresses the order of succession to the Presidency if the President dies or resigns?

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25th

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Who was the youngest U.S. President

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T. Roosevelt

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How many years is a presidential term?

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4

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The president must be how old to serve?

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35

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How many terms can the president serve?

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2

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What did the 26th Amendment do?

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Lowers voting age from 21 to 18

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Which branch of government makes the laws?

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Legislative

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Which branch of government makes sure the laws are carried out?

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Executive

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Which branch of government interprets the laws?

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Judicial

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checks and balances

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to prevent the concentration of power from forming in one branch

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Which branch makes laws?

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Legislative

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4 years

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President’s Term Length

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The three branches of the US government under the Constitution

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legislative, executive, judicial

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Popular Sovereignty says that _________ are the source of the governments power.

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The People

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When did the US enter the Great War (WW1)

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1917

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Dates of WW1/Great War

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1914-18

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Dates of Civil War

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1861-65

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Dates of the Declaration of Independence.

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July 4th 1776

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Dates of the American Revolution

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1775-1781

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who was cuba’s communist leader

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Castro

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Select one of cuba’s main crops

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Sugar

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Which of the following is NOT a common Cuban ethnicity

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American

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Which democratic president(s) were supportive of civil rights

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Kennedy

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Which was NOT one of JFK’s programs

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nuclear program

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When was the first televised presedential debate?

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1960

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Election of 1960

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Kennedy vs. Nixon

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Reconstruction from Civil War dates

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1865-1876

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Impeach

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Put on trial

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Civil War dates

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1861-1865

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Legislative Branch

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2 parts- House of Representatives: 6 year terms, must be 30, Senate: must be 25, no terms, make laws, approve appointments, declare war

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The Great War dates( 1917 when US enters)

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1914-1918

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Abraham Lincoln

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President during Civil War

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Executive Branch

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4 year terms, must be 35, must have no felonies, must be native born in America, coach the country, run the military, make federal appointments.

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US gained Independence date

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July 4, 1776

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George Washington

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first president

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Which is NOT a branch of government

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Presidential

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popular sovereignty

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Local desicion-making

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federal

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national

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veto

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to reject a law

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Judicial Branch

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federal court system, main court is Supreme Court, no age to get on, no term limit, 9 judges, hear last appeals, rule if laws are unconstitutional, judges for impeachment

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Teddy Roosevelt

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President during spanish-american war

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Who was the 17th President of the United States?

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Andrew Johnson

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How did President Andrew Johnson become President of the United States?

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He became president after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

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Which event led to President Andrew Johnson’s impeachment?

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The clash with Congress over his Reconstruction policies

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how many bison were left by 1875

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325

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Wildly popular 1852 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that portrayed slavery as a cruel and brutal system.

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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Organized the region west of Missouri and Iowa as the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, and allowed voters to decide on whether or not to allow slavery.

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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What was the result of the Dred Scott Case?

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Said that no slaves or former slaves had any rights, declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.

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A special order by President Lincoln on January 1st, 1863 declaring slaves in Confederate states were free

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Emancipation Proclamation

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Who was the President of the Confederacy?

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Jefferson Davis

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Who killed Abraham Lincoln?

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John Wilkes Booth

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What event happened immediately before the secession of southern states?

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Election of 1860, Lincoln wins

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abolition

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anti-slavery movement

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popular sovereignty

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when the people decide who they will be governed

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sharecropping

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payment of land rent with agricultural produce

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impeach

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to charge a public official with improper conduct in office

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Jim Crow Laws

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laws legalizing racial segregation of blacks and whites that were enacted in Southern states beginning in the 1880s and enforced through the 1950’s

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Republican Party

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Its main goal was to stop the spread of slavery.

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Election of 1860

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Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate, won because the Democratic party in the South was split over slavery. As a result, the South no longer felt like it had a voice in politics and a 11 states seceded from the Union.

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Fugitive Slave Act

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(1850) a law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves;Wanted police to arrest escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and require their return to slaveholders

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The time period after the Civil War where the country tried to rebuild and heal?

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Reconstruction

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What nickname was used for a white Southerner who supported Reconstruction?

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Scalawag

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Which amendment, ratified in 1868, granted citizenship to people born in the United States and protected citizen’s rights?

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14th Amendment

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Which amendment abolished slavery?

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13th Amendment

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What nickname was used for a Northerner who went to the South to participate in Reconstruction?

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Carpetbagger

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What group from the South used harassment and terror to intimidate Freedmen?

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Ku Klux Klan

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Which amendment was ratified in 1870 and guaranteed the right of black males to vote?

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15th Amendment

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