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C.L Test 1-40 Flashcards

1
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What was Auschwitz?

A

The infamous CONCENTRATION CAMP established by the NAZIS in POLAND

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2
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How many major nations put death to people by Nazis?

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Three

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3
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What is Bostille?

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A prison in Paris where many political prisoners, and other offenders, were held and tortured until the time of the FRENCH REVOLUTION

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4
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What was the prison attacked by?

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Workers (common laborers)

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5
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What is Alamo?

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A fort, once a chapel in San Antonio

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What is the Appomattox Court House?

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A court house in Virginia where General Robert E. LEE surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant in April of 1865

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7
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What was the Civil War termed as?

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’ Brother against brother

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Who was Crispus Attucks?

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A black sailor

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9
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Where was Crispus Attucks killed?

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In the Boston Massacre

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10
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Who was Benjamin Banneker?

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An African-American scientist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries

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What did Benjamin Banneker teach himself?

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Calculus and trigonometry

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12
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What was the Bill of Rights?

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The first ten amendments to the CONSTITUTION of the United States

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What does the Bill of Rights protect?

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Freedom of speech, religion, assembly, and the press

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14
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What is blue and the gray?

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The respective nicknames assigned to the Union and CONFEDERATE armies in the Civil War

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15
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What color uniforms did the Union army wear?

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Gray

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16
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Who was Daniel Boone?

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An American frontier settler of the late 18th and 19th centuries

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17
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Where did Daniel Boone explore?

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Kentucky

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18
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Who was John Wilkes Booth?

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An actor and an assassin

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19
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Who did John Wilkes assassin?

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Abraham Lincoln

20
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What is the Boston Massacre?

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A clash between British troops and town’s people in Boston in 1770, before the Revolutionary War

21
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Who out of the 5 people get killed in the Boston Massacre crowd?

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Crispus Attucks

22
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What was the Boston tea party?

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An act of defiance toward the British government by American colonists

23
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What was the Battle of Bunker Hill?

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The first great battle of the Revolutionary War

24
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When did the Battle of Bunker Hill take place?

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June of 1775

25
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What was the civil war know as?

A

“War for Southern independence”

26
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What was the Civil War?

A

A war fought in the United States between northern and southern states from 1861 to 1865

27
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What is the Constitution?

A

The fundamental law of the United States

28
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When was the Constitution drafted?

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1787

29
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Who was Franciso Cornondo?

A

A Spanish explorer of the 16th century

30
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What was Francisco Corondo searching for?

A

The “seven gold cities of Cibola”

31
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Who is Dorothea Dix?

A

A 19th century REFORMER

32
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What expanded and improved due to Dorothea Dix?

A

Mental hospitals

33
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Who was Stephan A. Douglass?

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A political leader of the 19th century, known for twice running against ABRAHAM LINCOLN

34
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When did Stephan A. Douglass lose the presidency seat?

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In 1858

35
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What is. Emancipation Proclamation?

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A proclamation made by president Abraham Lincoln

36
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When was the Emancipation Proclamtion?

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1863

37
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What is the First Amendment?

A

The first article of the BILL OF RIGHTS

38
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What does the First Amendment forbid CONGRESS from doing?

A

Tampering with the freedoms of religion, speech, assembly, and the press

39
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What are forty-niners?

A

Those who flocked to CALIFORNIA in 1849

40
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What were the forty-niners in search of?

A

Gold

41
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What are Founding Fathers?

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A general name for male American patriots during the REVOLUTIONARY WAR

42
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Who were the Founding Fathers?

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Johns Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamiltion, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, George Washington

43
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Who was Benjamin Franklin?

A

A patriot, diplomat, author, printer, scientist, and inventor, of the 18th century; one of the Founding Fathers of the United States

44
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What did Benjamin Franklin research?

A

Electricity

45
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What was the battle of Gettysburg?

A

The greatest battle of the Civil War, fought in south-central Pennsylvania

46
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What year did the battle of Gettysburg take place?

A

1863

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