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American Government, Wilson - Chapter 13

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CHAPTER 13 - Congress What is Congress Vs Parliament? - Parliament candidates by party and people vote for a party, cong in primary where a vote is for the person - Parliament votes together most of the time so that they stay in office and vote for their party, but are poorly paid while cong votes for themselves, not their party and are paid well with substantial benefits. -Cong is not popular w/ Americans due to the endless arguments and worry about what interest groups have to say too. What is The Evolution of Congress? -Centralization for quick actions, decentralized for constitutional decisions. -House of reps has reorganized in six different periods/phases -probs include wanting to be too big and have too much pow. no lasting solution

history

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Chapter 1 New World Beginnings Peopling the Americas Ice Age contributed to North Americas human History Sea levels dropped a land bridge connecting Eurasia and North America was exposed in the Area of the Bearing Sea between Siberia and Alaska Small bands of nomadic Asian hunters crossed the bridge following migratory herds of game As the ice age ended the land bridge was covered by the sea closing the passage for new immigration 54 million people inhabited the Americas by 1492 Aztec and Inca people built elaborate cities and were sophisticated civilizations The Earliest Americans Corn transformed the nomadic ways of the people Cultivation of corn lead to the formation of settled agricultural villages Three sister farming Beans, squash, and corn

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Chapter 1 New World Beginnings Peopling the Americas Ice Age contributed to North Americas human History Sea levels dropped a land bridge connecting Eurasia and North America was exposed in the Area of the Bearing Sea between Siberia and Alaska Small bands of nomadic Asian hunters crossed the bridge following migratory herds of game As the ice age ended the land bridge was covered by the sea closing the passage for new immigration 54 million people inhabited the Americas by 1492 Aztec and Inca people built elaborate cities and were sophisticated civilizations The Earliest Americans Corn transformed the nomadic ways of the people Cultivation of corn lead to the formation of settled agricultural villages Three sister farming Beans, squash, and corn

Farewell to Manzanar Essay (Discrimination)

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General Dewitt says, ?A Jap is a Jap, citizen or not, they will never change and cannot be trusted!? This anti-Japanese sentiment is shared by many Americans after Japan bomb Pearl Harbor in 1941. The Americans blame all the Japanese and people of Japanese ancestry for the bombing. They look at the Japanese Americans with fear and distrust. As a result, the Japanese American become the target of racial discrimination; Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and her father, Ko Wakatsuki are among those being discriminated. To let people know how Japanese Americans are treated in America at that time, Jeanne Wakatsuki wrote, Farewell to Manzanar. Jeanne and Ko Wakatsuk are resilient when dealing with discrimination.

Rocklin High School Notes

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19-2:??Ecology of Organsims I.???????????????????Biotic & Abiotic factors?=?Living & non-living factors in an environment that affect an organism. ??????????? *Name the important abiotic factors: temperature, humidity, pH, salinity, oxygen concentration, sunlight, availability of nitrogen, precipitation *How are?biotic?and?abiotic?factors not independent? ?organisms can change environments, and environments can change organisms A.? Name the three different ways that the environment has changes in temperature: it can vary with time, or by place, or by location within a habitat (shade or sun) B.? Draw the?tolerance curve?from page 369 (fig 19-8): ?

chapter 10 keyterms

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Chapter 10 Key terms Appropriations: Budget legislation that specifies the amount of authorized funds that will actually be allocated for agencies and departments to spend. Authorizations: Budget legislation that provides agencies and departments with the legal authority to operate. Casework: The assistance members of Congress provide to their constituents; includes answering questions and doing personal favors for those who ask for help. Cloture: A method of stopping a filibuster by limiting debate to only twenty more hours; requires a vote of three-fifths of the members of the Senate. Conference committee: A committee composed of members of both houses of Congress that is formed to try to resolve the differences when the two houses pass different versions of the same bill.

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