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What is the main purpose of the United States Constitution?
To establish a new government for the United States and designate its powers and limits.
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Who is Henry Ford?
American industrialist who made the car popular in the United States and invented the assembly line.
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Who is Susan B. Anthony?
Prominent social reformer and crusader for woman's rights. She helped start the woman's suffrage movement.
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Who is John Scopes?
A teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, who was charged in 1925 with violating Tennessee’s Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
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Who is Charles Lindberg?
The first aviator to complete a solo transatlantic flight, which he did in his plane, "Spirit of St. Louis".
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What is the Preamble?
One of the most important sentences in American history. It outlines the role of the United States government and reiterates an idea first set out in the Declaration of Independence — that the United States is a nation governed by and for its people.
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Who is Calvin Coolidge?
30th president of the United States, who took office during the Roaring Twenties, yet was noted for his silence and aloofness. He believed in limited government and worked hard to cut taxes and keep the government out of private business'
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Who is Corrie ten Boom?
During World War II, she and her family harbored hundreds of Jews to protect them from arrest by Nazi authorities.
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What is Communism?
Lenin, a Russian revolutionary Bolshevik leader and the first head of the Soviet Union, adapted a Marxist theory, and reshaped the definition of this type of government.
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Who is Joseph Stalin?
An entirely unscrupulous man who consistently manipulated Communist imperialism for the greater glory of Soviet Russia and the strengthening of his own person as autocrat. He died, under somewhat mysterious circumstances, on March 5, 1953.
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What are the first three articles of the Constitution?
The articles that lay out the purpose, responsibilities, and structure for the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the government.
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Who is Al Capone?
American gangster who ruled organized crime in Chicago during the Roaring Twenties. He was the most famous gangster in America.
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Who is Victoria I of Britain?
Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and the first Empress of India. She reigned for nearly 64 years, which is longer than any other British monarch to date.
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What is a Dictatorship?
Form of government that is controlled by a single ruler who assumes total control, often by force.
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What is the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
Sunday, December 7, 1941
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What are Enumerated powers?
_______________ are the explicitly stated powers of the federal government, whereas reserved powers are those given to the states.
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Who is Albert Einstein?
German physicist who developed the
photoelectric cell, or “electric eye,” which made the modern motion picture industry possible. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. |
Who is Margaret Sanger?
An American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse who popularized the term "birth control". She opened the first birth control clinic in the United States and established an organization that evolved into Planned Parenthood.
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What is a Monarchy?
Form of government that transmits authority according to the rules of heredity.
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What is Blitzkrieg?
The German military strategy of using of fast-moving tanks, with motorized infantry and artillery supported by dive-bombers, and concentrating on one part of the enemy sector.
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What is Congress?
The Necessary and Proper Clause (aka "Elastic Clause") grants ____________ the power to, “make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution...”
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Who is Nicholas II of Russia?
Last emperor of Russia, ruling as autocrat from 1894 to 1917, when he abdicated the throne. His poor policies and military leadership crippled Russia in the years up to and throughout World War I.
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Who is Alexandria Feodorovna?
German princess who married Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. She was left in control of the Russian government when her husband went to command the Russian army, and helped to bring on the Russian Revolution by completely mismanaging the nation, according to the advice of her holy man, Rasputin.
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What is the Third Amendment?
This Amendment was a response to the British legislation, the Quartering Act.
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What is Schenck v. United States
The Supreme Court case held that the First Amendment right to free speech doesn't protect speech that presents a “clear and present danger". This case helped to define the modern understanding of the First Amendment, and the opinion included the well know statement that, “The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic.”
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