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US HISTORY CH 4 Flashcards

13338531989	Declaration of Independence	Signed in 1776 by US revolutionaries; it declared the United States as a free state.	0
13338555304	Haym Salomon	American financier and Revolutionary patriot who helped fund the army during the American Revolution (1740?-1785)	1
13338572305	Marquis de Lafayette	French soldier who joined General Washington's staff and became a general in the Continental Army.	2
13338590703	Francis Marion	South Carolina militia leader nicknamed the "Swamp Fox" for his hit-and-run attacks on the British during the American Revolution.	3
13338611091	Battle of Yorktown	the last major battle of the American Revolution	4
13338618321	Samuel Adams	American Revolutionary leader and patriot, Founder of the Sons of Liberty and one of the most vocal patriots for independence; signed the Declaration of Independence	5
13338652475	Mercy Otis Warren	female patriot who wrote poems to convince others to join the patriot cause	6
13338666064	Boston Tea Party	protest against increased tea prices in which colonists dumped british tea into boston harbor	7
13338682839	Patriots	Colonists who wanted independence from Britain	8
13338692660	Second Continental Congress	Political authority that directed the struggle for independence beginning in 1775.	9
13338710064	Common Sense	A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that claimed the colonies had a right to be an independent nation	10
13338730988	Boston Massacre	The first bloodshed of the American Revolution (1770), as British guards at the Boston Customs House opened fire on a crowd killing five Americans	11
13338766853	John Paul Jones	American naval commander in the American Revolution (1747-1792) said " I have not yet begun to fight."	12
13338779481	James Armistead	African American Patriot who spied for the Americans during the American Revolution.	13
13338795379	Treaty of Paris 1783	This treaty ended the Revolutionary War, recognized the independence of the American colonies, and granted the colonies the territory from the southern border of Canada to the northern border of Florida, and from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River	14
13338822315	Battle of Trenton	On Christmas day at night, Washington's soldiers began crossing the Delaware River. The next morning, they surprise attacked the Hessians.	15
13338842560	Thomas Jefferson	Author of the Declaration of Independence	16
13338853581	Baron Friedrich von Steuben	a Prussian military officer who trained the Continental Army	17
13338864564	George Rogers Clark	frontiersman who helped defend the western frontier	18
13338881559	Battle of Saratoga	American victory over British troops in 1777 that was a turning point in the American Revolution.	19
13338893135	Loyalists	Americans who supported the British	20
13338906406	Bernardo de Galvez	Spanish governor who aided the Americans during the Revolution	21
13338918315	Comte de Rochambeau	French general who commanded French troops in the American Revolution, notably at Yorktown (1725-1807)	22
13338931513	First Continental Congress	Delegates from all colonies except Georgia met to discuss problems with Britain and to promote independence	23
13338956112	Redcoats	British soldiers	24
13338964830	Battle of Bunker Hill	In 1775, first major battle of the revolution	25
13338985922	Thomas Paine	Author of Common Sense	26
13339001528	Intolerable Acts	series of laws passed in 1774 to punish Boston for the Tea Party	27
13339013549	Stamp Act of 1765	Placed a tax on almost all printed materials in the colonies	28
13339029880	Minutemen	citizen soldiers who could be ready to fight at a minute's notice	29
13339042927	George Washington	1st President of the United States; commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution (1732-1799)	30
13339053976	Tea Act of 1773	Gave the East India Company an unfair business advantage over colonial merchants.	31
13339080238	Committees of Correspondence	Organizations in each of the American colonies created to keep colonists aware of developments with the British	32
13339111381	Quartering Act	1765 - Required the colonials to provide food, lodging, and supplies for the British troops in the colonies.	33

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AP World History Chapter 3 (China) Flashcards

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7393333244	Warring States Period	-influenced the start of Confucianism, Legalism, and Daoism -provided opportunity for philosophers to think of new ways to run things -led to new philosophies	0
7393339408	syncretism	coming together; union of different principles, practices, or parties relating to philosophy or religion	1
7393347440	Zhou (Pattern)	-feudalism (decentralized) -contributions: extend territory, focus on centra government, culture/language unity(written language mostly) -Mandate of Heaven -Decline	2
7393359041	Qin (Pattern)	-Qin Shi Huangdi -Legalist -Contribution	3
7393362301	Qin Shi Huangdi (Qin Dynasty)	-first emperor -created great wall* -standardized stuff like roads -spent lots of money -killed tons of people -book burnings -killed scholars Terra Cotta Army*	4
7393371316	Han (Pattern)	-Golden Age? -Han Wudi -Decline (central control weakness, internal problems, nomadic invaders)	5
7393378402	Political Institutions (China)	-central authority with strong local units -bureaucracy with exam system (in theory=equal opportunity) -role of the state in culture, economy, court system -invaders could destroy a dynasty but couldn't find a better way to run things (assimilation)	6
7393386453	Religion and Culture (China)	-Confucianism -Legalism -Daoism	7
7393388409	Confucianism	-Confucius (Kong Fuzi) -Ethics, responsibly -Five relationships: father-son, husband-wife, etc)	8
7393397602	Legalism	-people are bad so you have to have harsh laws	9
7393398818	Daoism	-more spiritual -harmony with nature -the Dao -co-exist with Confucianism -balance	10
7393402113	Economy (China)	-upper class/peasants/"mean" people	11
7393406047	status of merchants and tradesmen	-very low -they were looked down upon	12
7393408457	type of society (patriarchal or matriarchal)	-very patriarchal	13
7393409499	were they technologically advanced	yes	14
7393411256	thoughts of other people outside China	-they are "barbarians" -we are superior	15
7393415453	Confucianism VS Daoism	Confucianism wins; it is the dominate policy	16
7393417246	secular	not religious	17

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PreAP World History (unit 1 review) Flashcards

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10678151353	Great Flood, Hebrew Bible, Epic of Gilgamesh	a __________ account appears in the ________as well as the________.	0
10678179517	Abraham, god's, Hebrew	____________ was ________ choice to lead the ____________ people.	1
10678221039	Indian varna, Brahmins	According to ___________ the __________ were the purest class and society.	2
10678246694	Americas	All human remains in the ___________ are Homo sapiens.	3
10678275320	DNA	Archeologists use cave paintings,_________, tools, and human remains for evidence of ancient peoples.	4
10678290689	Ashoka, Buddhism	____________ Build monuments and stone inscriptions and send missionaries to help spread _____________.	5
10678318246	Polynesians, Americas, Eurasian contact	Both the ___________ and ___________ develop in isolation from any ____________.	6
10678338554	Carbon-14	_____________ testing helps identify the approximate age of artifacts.	7
10678389151	Tehuacan	Domestication of wild grasses in ____________ developed into the civilization of maize.	8
10678401336	Egyptian	____________ writing was in hieroglyphs.	9
10678436959	Mesopotamia	First writing in ____________ involved the need to record trade transactions.	10
10678453330	Population growth	Increased agriculture leads to __________.	11
10678459002	Karma, Hindu	__________ Is the process that determines how ___________ souls or transmigrated/reincarnated.	12
10678477131	King Gilgamesh	____________ gained the support of prominent families and the religious leaders.	13
10678499495	Buddhist (2)	Many non-___________ donated to ___________ missionaries to improve their own worldly standing.	14
10678516425	Mayan, No	_____________ agriculture utilized ____ draft animals (all done by people).	15
10678540370	Obsidian, Mayan	_______________ was the most valuable _______________ commodity because of its trade network value.	16
10678565909	North America, Southwest u.s.	One of the first complex societies in ______________ was found in the _____________ ___.	17
10678579670	Chinese	Paper is the most important _______________ inventions/contribution to civilization.	18
10678590467	Egypt, Kingdoms	Periods of strong government in ___________ are classified as _______________.	19
10678608864	Agriculture	Population of modern man grew after _________________ was developed.	20
10678623688	Qin, Chinese(2)	_______ stone inscriptions were written in ____________ because they impose _____________ as the national language.	21
10678654910	Sanskrit, Indo-European	___________ Is a member of the ____________________ language family.	22
10678666983	South Asian (India)	_______________( ) trade and communication routes involved mariners sailing with the monsoon winds.	23
10678700478	Assyrians, Mediterranean	The _____________ were ferocious warriors from the eastern _____________________.	24
10678715100	Hammurabi's	The basic concept of _________________ law code was "an eye for an eye".	25
10678739857	Chinese Imperial Academy, Confucian	The _________ __________ __________ prepared future government workers by giving _____________ tests.	26
10678753156	Maya	The decline of the ___________ civilization was intense and rapid.	27
10678776941	Chinese	The first recognizable ____________ characters appear on bones.	28
10678787518	India, Indus River	The first urban development in __________ was in the __________ _________ valley.	29
10678810082	Great pyramid, Egypt, Khufu	The ________ _____________ in _______was built to house the life-force of ____________.	30
10678829492	Han, China	The ______ controlled __________ by subdividing the empire into smaller precincts.	31
10678847139	Han, Confucianism	The __________ dynasty spread ____________________ by emphasizing learning.	32
10678868373	Himalayas, India	The ________________ prevented large scale overland trade into ancient __________.	33
10678882452	Hittites	The __________ had iron weapons as a tactical advantage.	34
10678898143	Polynesians, Americas	The __________________,______________ , and eastern hemisphere early societies all had stratified societies.	35
10678915613	Mesoamericans	The religious practice of human sacrifice what is common to most _______________________.	36
10678933303	Polynesian Oceania	The uniqueness of the _______________ __________ people were their long ocean voyages.	37
10678954803	Warring States Period, Zhou, China	The ____________ ________ ___________ ended the _________ dynasty in _________.	38
10678968215	Yellow River	The word sorrow is used to describe the __________ _______ because of its frequent deadly floods.	39

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Circuits and Switches Flashcards

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11265058219	Atom	The smallest particle of an element	0
11265058220	Electricity	Electric charge	1
11265058221	Electric Current	A flow of electric charge	2
11265058222	Circuits	an act or instance of going or moving around	3
11265058223	Electrical load	Any device that purposely converts electrical energy to another form.	4
11265058224	electrical charge	a property of matter, either positive or negative	5
11265058225	switch	a device that turns on or turns off a circuit	6
11265058226	Capacitor	A device used to store charge in a circuit	7
11265058227	circuit lines	Pathway to move electrical data	8
11265058228	Diode	Allows current to flow in only one direction	9
11265058229	Resistor	An electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current	10
11265058230	Transistor	A small electronic device used in a circuit as an amplifier or switch.	11
11265058231	Light Emitting Diode	l.e.d	12
11265058232	adaptor	a connector for joining parts of devices	13
11265058233	Alternating Current (AC)	A flow of electric charge that regularly reverses its direction	14
11265058234	Ampere	Amps	15
11265058235	Direct Current (DC)	Electric current that flows in only one direction	16
11265058236	Ohm	unit of resistance	17
11265058237	Voltage	The potential difference	18
11265058238	Conductor	A device designed to transmit electricity.	19
11265058239	Insulator	A material in which electrons are not able to move easily	20
11265058240	semiconductor	conducts electricity under some conditions	21
11265058241	Gate	Receives the current to turn a switch on or off	22
11265058242	Source	Receives the electricity from the circuits pathway	23
11265058243	drain	Passes the current from the transistor and on through	24

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AP Spanish Literature Authors Flashcards

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13885784118	El conde Lucanor (Ejemplo XXXV: De lo que le pasó a un mancebo que se casó con una mujer muy brava)	Don Juan Manuel	0
13885784119	Romance del Rey moro que perdió la Alhama	Anónimo	1
13885784120	Soneto XXIII (En tanto que de rosa y azucena)	Garcilaso de la Vega	2
13885784121	Segunda carta de relación	Hernán Cortés	3
13885784122	Visión de los vencidos (Los presagios y Se ha perdido el pueblo mexica)	Miguel León Portilla	4
13885784123	Soneto CLXVI (Mientras que por competir con tu cabello)	Luis de Góngora	5
13885784124	Lazarillo de Tormes	Anónimo	6
13885784125	El ingenioso hidalgo, Don Quijote de la Mancha	Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra	7
13885784126	El burlador de Sevilla y el convidado de piedra	Tirso de Molina	8
13885784127	Salmo XVII (Miré los muros de la patria mía)	Francisco de Quevedo	9
13885784128	Hombres necios que acusais	Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz	10
13885784129	En una tempestad	José María Heredia	11
13885784130	Rima LIII (Volverán las oscuras golondrinas)	Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer	12
13885784131	El hijo	Horacio Quiroga	13
13885784132	Las medias rojas	Emilia Pardo Bazán	14
13885784133	A Roosevelt	Rubén Darío	15
13885784134	Nuestra América	José Martí	16
13885784135	Peso Ancestral	Alfonsina Storni	17
13885784136	San Manuel Bueno, mártir	Miguel de Unamuno	18
13885784137	A Julia de Burgos	Julia de Burgos	19
13885784138	Soledades II (He andado muchos caminos)	Antonio Machado	20
13885784139	Walking Around	Pablo Neruda	21
13885784140	Prendimiento de Antoñito el Camborio	Federico García Lorca	22
13885784141	Balada de los dos abuelos	Nicolás Guillén	23
13885784142	La casa de Bernarda Alba	Federico García Lorca	24
13885784143	No oyes ladrar los perrros	Juan Rulfo	25
13885784144	Chac Mool	Carlos Fuentes	26
13885784145	El Sur	Jorge Luis Borges	27
13885784146	Borges y yo	Jorge Luis Borges	28
13885784147	La noche boca arriba	Julio Cortázar	29
13885784148	La siesta del martes	Gabriel García Márquez	30
13885784149	El ahogado más hermoso del mundo	Gabriel García Márquez	31
13885784150	Mi caballo mago	Sabine Ulibarrí	32
13885784151	Dos palabras	Isabel Allende	33
13885784152	Y no se lo tragó la tierra	Tomás Rivera	34
13885784153	Mujer negra	Nancy Morejón	35
13885784154	La noche buena	Tomás Rivera	36
13885784155	El hombre que se convirtió en perro	Osvaldo Dragún	37
13885784156	Como la vida misma	Rosa Montero	38