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progressive movement social reform movement of the 20th century Florence Kelley social reformer who helped pass the Illinois Factory Act that prohibited child labor and limited women’s working hours prohibition…

coastal trade The domestic slave trade with routes along the Atlantic coast that sent thousands of slaves to sugar plantations in Louisiana and cotton plantations in the Mississippi Valley. inland…

General George Washington p 214 He was appointed by the Second Continental Congress as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army in 1775. His ability to learn under duress and refusal to…

Feudalism Monarchs awarded land to loyal followers, or vassals. In exchange, these vassals guaranteed that their parcels of land (fiefs) would be governance. Chivalry Ensured that knights acted as virtuous,…

Homestead Act 1862 Act that allowed a settler to acquire as much as 160 acres of land by living on it for 5 years, improving it, and paying a nominal…

European Feudalism Economic and political relationships between landlords and peasant labor on large self-sufficient agricultural estates; also known as manorialism. Peasant laborers serve lord in exchange for the right to…

Interactive dualism Descartes’ concept that the mind and the body are two separate entities but they casually interact with each other to produce conscious experience Theological psychology which functions belong…

Which of the following is an example of an empirical question? “Will you get an A in this class?” While Margaret Floy Washburn may have been the first woman to…

The Declaration of Independence contains all of the following phrases except “monarchy and hereditary succession have laid the world in blood and ashes.” From the rationalist philosophies of the Enlightenment,…

Muybridge English Photographer. Filmed the first movement of a race horse on a bet (Leeland Stanford). Later displayed on a phenakistoscope. Edison The first films made in the 1890’s. Vaudeville…

Quasi-experiment differs from a true experiment in that the researchers do not have full experiments control –still studying the effect of an IV on a DV -often because people can…

Home Rule a state’s powers of governing its citizens without federal government involvement. Homestead Act 1862 – Provided free land in the West to anyone willing to settle there and…

Copernicus’s model of the solar system gave much better predictions than the model of Ptolemy False Process of Science: If any single test of a scientific hypothesis contradicts it, the…

Identify the FALSE statement Time zones are 15 degrees of latitude wide Before the development of isotopic dating methods, scientists estimated the age of the earth using each of the…

The sultan who presided over a “golden age” and the greatest ottoman assault on Christian Europe was Sulieman the magnificent As ottoman armies pressed into Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean,…

Christopher Shannon Christopher Shannon examines how an anthropological definition of culture shaped the central political and social narratives of the Cold War era. In the middle decades of the twentieth…

Explain the reasoning behind Ismene’s decision not to help Antigone bury Polyneices and what it reveals about the ancient Greek culture. Ismene is fearful of breaking the law and facing…

Oligopoly a market structure in which only a few sellers offer similar or identical products Duopoly an oligopoly with only two firms Game Theory the study of how people behave…

australopithecus 4-1mya, east Africa, walked upright on two legs and had well-developed hands, used stone tools and later developed fire homo erectus 2.5 mya-200tya, east Africa but migrated to Asia…

In all human societies (Blank) and (Blank) operate as the 2 very basic economic principles Family and Kin a sum of money or quantity of goods given to a bride’s…