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Who wrote that he hoped to erect a “wall of separation” between church and state? Jefferson For most free Americans in the new republic, equality meant equal opportunity rather than…

________ is important because it effects how people in politics and how individuals and institutions interact. Political culture A belief that government is designed to promote the public good describes…

The Andromeda Galaxy is faintly visible to the naked eye. When you look at the Andromeda Galaxy, the retina of your eye is absorbing light that has traveled through space…

Geocentric Theory In the Middle Ages, the earth centered view of the universe in which scholars believed that the earth was an immovable object located at the center of the…

1: What was the Industrial Revolution? Increased output of machine made goods that began in England during the 18th century. 2: Which of the following was a result of the…

Adam Smith a professor at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, defended the idea of a free economy, or free markets Capitalism an economic system in which the factors of production…

What was the name of the statement of revolutionary ideals adopted by the National Assembly? Declaration of the Rights of man and of the Citizen What was the slogan of…

nonaggression pact a pact between soviet dictator Joseph Stalin and Hitler where they agreed to divide Poland between them and that the USSR could take over Finland and the Baltic…

Federalism System of government where sovereignty is divided on the state and national level Sovereignty Final authority on a matter Creator of theory of Separation of Powers (Baron de) Montesquieu…

Black Death one of the most devastating pandemics in human history; death toll estimated from 75 to 200 million people; peaked in Europe in from 1348 to 1350 CE; originated…

In develpoing his periodic table, Mendeleev listed on cards each element’s name, atomic mass, and properties Mendeleev’s periodic table did not list all elements in order of in creasing atomic…

Anaconda Plan a plan devised by General Winfield Scott, involved a blockade Emancipation Proclamation President Lincoln’s plan that would emancipate or free, enslaved people in areas still controlled by the…

Ch 1 The nature of art Cathedra Barnett Newman, 1951, Oil on canvas art forms An activity or a piece of artistic work that can be regarded as a medium…

battle of saratoga 1777 colonists defeated British army led by general John Burgoyne in Saratoga, NY, forced Burgoyne to surrender –> turning point in war bc it won the support…

Who was the “Somebody” in the text The Emperor’s New Clothes?The EmperorWhat does the protagonist want in The Emperor’s New Clothes?Clothes that have the ability to determine who is unfit…

‘Mark but this flea”Mark’ is imperative, demanding, sudden opening, characteristic of meta-physical poetryFlea as a concietAn elaborate composition between two highly dissimilar thing i.e. uses paradox to see something in…

“Since in a net I seek to hold the wind”• Whoso List to Hunt (Thomas Wyatt)• Metaphor• His task/what he is trying to do is futile. A net has holes,…

prologueIntroduction to a bookdog daysHot days in July and AugustgallowsA wooden frame on which people are hangedimmenseVast, huge, VERY largemelancholySad or depressedmarionetteA puppet with stringsmelodyA song or tunetensionMental or emotional…

Black CodesSouthern laws designed to restrict the rights of the newly freed black slaves13th amendmentabolished slavery14th amendmentDeclares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal…

“I Hear America Singing”By: Walt WhitmanPOEM about working Americans all “singing” to their own tune. The optimism and diversity of the respected hardworking American citizens.SHOWINGsymbolism: “singing” people”I, Too”By: Langston HughsPOEM…