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What description characterizes the government of colonial Spanish America?
Frugal and market-oriented
Conservative and capitalist
Federalized and significantly autonomous
Centrally controlled and tightly run
Centrally controlled and...
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The origins of the majority of human existence in North America began
with migrations from Eurasia over the Bering Strait.
Scholars estimate that human migration into the Americas over the Bering Strait occurred...
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Josiah Strong
Pious missionaries,were inspired by books like Strong's Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis, and looked overseas for new souls to harvest. Strong trumpeted the superiority of Anglo-Saxon civilization and...
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Halfway Covenant
A Puritan church document; In 1662, the Halfway Covenant allowed partial membership rights to persons not yet converted into the Puritan church; It lessened the difference between the "elect" members of the...
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Leland Stanford
a member of the Big Four, was one of the financial bankers of the enterprise. Helped build the Central Pacific Railroad.
James J. Hill
completed one of the five transatlantic railroads, the...
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stagflation
During the 60's and 70's, the U.S. was suffering from 5.3% inflation and 6% unemployment. Refers to the unusual economic situation in which an economy is suffering both from inflation and from stagnation of its industrial...
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Japanese internment
Carried out through Executive Order 9066, which took many Japanese families away from their homes and into internment camp. Motivated (somewhat) by racisim and fear of spies
Korematsu v. U.S.
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Herbert Hoover
nominated again without much vigor and true enthusiasm, and he campaigned saying that his policies prevented the Great Depression from being worse than it was.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
a tall,...
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1. The red scare of 1919-1920 was provoked by a) the wartime migration of rural blacks to northern cities b) the strict enforcement of prohibition laws c) evolutionary science's challenge to the biblical story of the Creation d) the public's association...
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