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classification the grouping of objects and information based on similarities taxonomy branch of biology that groups and names organisms based on studies of their different characteristics binomial nomensiature modern classification…

83. Which, if any, of the following statements best describes the history of the Federal income tax? a. It did not exist during the Civil War. b. The Federal income…

taiping rebellion The most destructive civil war before the twentieth century. A Christian-inspired rural rebellion threatened to topple the Qing Empire. ottoman decline Factors: 1) Weak leaders after Suleyman. 2)…

First pass happens in what? Metabolism: It goes from the portal vein into the liver to become metabolized. re-uptake the axon Recycles chemicals to make neurotransmitters synapse neurotransmitter molecules amygdale…

Modernism “all that is ephemeral and fleeting and everything that isn’t traditional”; describes an effect and focuses on an object; uproot from rural to industrialized cities Enlightenment brought light and…

Jamestown The first successful settlement in colonial America, founded in May of 1607. Harsh conditions nearly destroyed the colony but in 1610 supplies arrived with a new wave of settlers….

british received pronunciation (BRP) the dialect of england associated with upper class britons living in the london area and now considered standard in the uk creole or creolized language a…

kitchen debate A 1959 debate over the merits of their rival systems between US vice president Richard Nixon and Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev at the opening of an American exhibition…

Coastal Trade The passage through slaves through auction houses in the port cities bound for the massive trade mart in New Orleans. This process was condemned by Northern Abolitionists because…

What is phylogeny? The evolutionary history of a species or group of related species. What is systematics? A discipline that focuses on classifying organisms and their evolutionary relationships. (fossils, morphology,…

currently about how many people are added to the world population each year 83 million by 2012 the world is home to about how many people 7 billion the study…

United Nations (UN) an international peacekeeping organization to which most nations in the world belong, founded in 1945 to promote world peace, security, and economic development. satellite nation a country…

Separatist vs. non-Separatist Puritans Radical Calvinists against the Church of England; Separatists (Pilgrims) argued for a break from the Church of England, led the Mayflower, and established the settlement at…

how did romans feel about people who followed religions other than the roman religion? the romans were tolerant of others religions as long as their followers were respectful of the…

India On Indian subcontinent; cut off from Asia by Himalayan Mts. Harappa and Mohenjo Daro Major Cities at were well planned with wide roads, water systems and storage houses Vedas…

Midland Minnie The “first mother of Texas” Found her bones on Scharbauer Ranch near Midland 37,000 years old Atl-atl A device used for hunting Paleo-Indian’s solution for the bow and…

captopril (Capoten) ACE inhibitors Iosartan (Cozaar) ARBs spironolactone (Aldactone) Aldosterone antagonists & Potassium-sparing diuretics aliskiren (Tekturna) Direct renin inhibitors verapamil (Calan) Class IV/Calcium channel blockers doxazosin (Cardura) Alpha1 adrenergic blockers…

The approximate dates of the Baroque period are: 1600-1750. Which of the following does NOT characterize the Baroque era? an age of freedom and democracy John Milton’s Paradise Lost is…

Treaty of Whangia Treaty that opened Chinese ports up to US shipping Matthew Perry Commodore of the US Navy who opened up Japan with the Treaty of Kanagawa Alaska Referred…

A political party is a team of men and women with similar beliefs seeking legitimate control of the government by through elections. The largest segment of an American political party…