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The Louisiana Purchase
U.S. acquisition of the Louisiana territory from France in 1803 for $15 million. The purchase secured American control of the Mississippi river and doubled the size of the nation.
The Lewis and Clark...
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311. The Proclamation of 1763 was designed mainly to A) oppress the colonists. B) punish the Indians. C) show the power of Parliament. D) allow western settlement by the colonists. E) work out a fair settlement of the Indian problem.
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The Second Continental Congress: A) rejected attempts at reconciliation sent by the king. B) authorized a continental army of 20,000 soldiers. C) made plans to seize the lands of interior Indian tribes. D) immediately declared American...
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The Second Continental Congress: A) rejected attempts at reconciliation sent by the king. B) authorized a continental army of 20,000 soldiers. C) made plans to seize the lands of interior Indian tribes. D) immediately declared American...
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The potential for conflict between Europeans and the indigenous people in North America stemmed in part from different values concerning the: A)treatment of children. B)relationship to the environment. C)adoption of a sedentary versus a...
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New Right
Outspoken conservative movement of the 1980s that emphaszed such "social issues" as opposition to abortion, the Equal Rights Amendment, pornography, homosexuality, and affirmative action
Moral Majority
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Election of 1980
By this time, the Republican party was ready to challenge the Democrat's hold on the White House. As Americans were not pleased with Jimmy Carter's administration,and the "ABC" (Anybody but Carter) movement...
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Proposition 13 (1978)
A successful California state ballot initiative that capped the state's real estate tax at 1 percent of assessed value. The proposition radically reduced average property tax levels, decreasing revenue for the state...
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Richard Nixon
Elected President in 1968 and 1972 representing the Republican party. He was responsible for getting the United States out of the Vietnam War by using "Vietnamization", which was the withdrawal of 540,000 troops...
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