8th grade social studies final exam study guide Narrative Essay
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compromise of 1850
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Includes California admitted as a free state, the Fugitive Slave Act, Made popular sovereignty in most other states from Mexican- American War
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Dred scott vs sanford
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supreme court case that ruled african americans were not citizens and declared the Missouri compromise unconstitutional
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fugitive slave laws
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a law enacted as part of the compromise of 1850 designed to ensure that escaped slaves would be returned into bondage
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abolitionists
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people who believed that slavery should be against the law
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black codes
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Southern laws designed to restrict the rights of the newly freed black slaves
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freedmans bureau
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provided: food, clothing, jobs, medical care, schools for former slaves and the poor whites
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william holden
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President Johnson appointed Holden provisional governor of North Carolina. Holden called on white North Carolinians to take the oath of loyalty to the Union.
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causes of civil war
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Economic and social differences between the North and the South, having states vs. federal rights, slaves vs. non-slave proponents, the Growth of abolitionist movement and the election of President Abraham Lincoln.
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north/south advantages/dis advantages
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the south had more farms and had people (slaves) farming it mostly for them whereas the north was a more urban style area.
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robert e. lee
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Confederate general who had opposed secession but did not believe the Union should be held together by force
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ulysses s. grant
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an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War.
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major civil war battles
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Fort Sumter: beginning of civil war. 1st Bull Run: 1861, was first MAJOR battle. very short. Shiloh: bloodiest battle of the civil war. Antietam:1862, general lee lead the confederate troops into the north.battle lead to the emancipation proclamation. Gettysburg: july 3, 1863.Lees troops vs.General George Meads army.turning point in the war. Vicksburg: DEcember 1862 to july 1863, fought in Mississippi . union victory split confederacy into two.
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amendments
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Changes to the Constitution
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kkk
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Stands for Ku Klux Klan and started right after the Civil War in 1866. The Southern establishment took charge by passing discriminatory laws known as the black codes. Gives whites almost unlimited power. They masked themselves and burned black churches, schools, and terrorized black people. They are anti-black and anti-Semitic.
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wilmington race riot
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A white mob seized the reins of government in the port city and, in so doing, destroyed the local black-owned newspaper office and terrorized the African American community
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industrial revolution
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the transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation
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North carolina\"s big 3 industries
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tobacco furniture and textiles
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tobacco industry
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an industry that manufactures and sells products containing tobacco
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world war 1 causes
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the surge of nationalism in 1800s and 1900s, demand unification, increasing strength of military capabilities, massive colonization for raw materials needed for industrialization and manufacturing, mechanized warfare, tanks, airplanes, machine guns, submarines, trenches, treaty of paris ended ww1
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american's role in ww1
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to fight the opposing nation in war
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ww1 warfare types
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mainly trench warfare but there were tanks, planes, and helicopters.
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treaty of versailles
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the treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans
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causes of great depression
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stock markets crashed, unemployment rising, the dustbowl, overproduction of everything, layoffs,buying on credit
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new deal programs
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FDR's plan to help the USA
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FDR
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Roosevelt, the President of the United States during the Depression and WWII. He instituted the New Deal. Served from 1933 to 1945, he was the only president in U.S. history to be elected to four terms
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ww2 causes
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-versailles treaty failed -fascism and nazis on the rise in Germany -Inaction by france fb and ussr (appeasement) -american isolationism -multipolarity -great depression and protectionism
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ww2 leaders
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churchill, Statin, Hitler, mussolini, tojo, roosevelt
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us entered ww2
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1941
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ww2 events
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europe pacific attack pearl harber d-day
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interstate highways
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A network of roads that went through and connected US cities
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RTP
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Real-Time Transport Protocol
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korean war
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a war between North and South Korea
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cuban missile crisis
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an international crisis in October 1962, the closest approach to nuclear war at any time between the U.S. and the USSR. When the U.S. discovered Soviet nuclear missiles on Cuba, President John F. Kennedy demanded their removal and announced a naval blockade of the island; the Soviet leader Khrushchev acceded to the U.S. demands a week later.
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vietnam
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a prolonged war (1954-1975) between the communist armies of North Vietnam who were supported by the Chinese and the non-communist armies of South Vietnam who were supported by the United States
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JFK
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35th President of the United States
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Nixon
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Vice President under Eisenhower and 37th President of the United States
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berlin wall
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a wall separating East and West Berlin built by East Germany in 1961 to keep citizens from escaping to the West
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plessy vs ferguson
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a case that was brought to supreme court by black lawsuits to challenge the legality of segregation. The court ruled that segregation was legal as long as it was \"equal\"
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brown vs board of education
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Decision saying, segregation in SCHOOLS is a violation of the 14th amendment, 1954
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civil rights protests
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- African Americans:majority moved to the Midwest, where better jobs could be found but faced discrimination -James Farmer founded an interracial organization called the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to confront urban segregation in the North. -Serious racial tensions (fighting of 1943) in the United States. By 1945, more than 400 committees had been established by American communities to improve race relations
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Govenors
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leader of a state's government
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how a bill becomes a law
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1. written 2. discussed in committee + voted 3. discussed in House of Reps. and Senate + voted on in both 4. President signs it or vetoes it (which brings back to Congress, needs 2/3 vote to override veto)
