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What is Legislative (Congress), Judicial (Supreme Court), Executive (President)
These are the three branches of U.S. government and who is in charge of each.
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What is for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so? 200 point bonus- Use one of these fanboys correctly in a sentence.
FANBOYS
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What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This year long boycott of the bus system in Alabama was successful in de-segregating seeing on city buses.
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What are context clues? 200 point bonus- At times, two sides cannot--or will not-- agree. The speed and ease with which such an impasse is resolved depend in part on the nature of the contract issues.
An impasse means...
Hints within a sentence that help unlock the meaning of an unknown word.
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What is US, Britain, Soviet Union- Allies. Italy, Germany, Japan- Axis powers
The major Axis powers and Allied powers of World War II.
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What is the Electoral College? 200 point bonus- How many electoral votes does a candidate need to win?
This is a special body who is in charge of electing presidents in the USA.
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What is a complex sentence?
What type of sentence is this?
The girl was madly in love with the boy even though he didn't even know she existed. |
What are Jim Crow laws
These laws condoned the idea of "separate but equal" treatment of African Americans.
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What are prefixes, roots, and suffixes? 200 point bonus- What does the prefix "mal" mean?
The three parts of words that help determine meaning
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What is napalm?
9% of the bombs dropped on Vietnam during the Vietnam war were this type of bomb.
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What is the 8th Amendment?
This amendment states that no cruel and unusual punishment can be inflicted.
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What is a compound-complex sentence?
What type of sentence is this?
When I decided to get my GED, I didn't realize it was going to be the best choice I had ever made, for it opened doorways that otherwise would have remained closed. |
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
This landmark Supreme Court case made segregating schools illegal and began when a little girl anther parents made a class action suit against the Board of Education in Topeka Kansas
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What is the point the author is trying to make about the topic?
The question you ask yourself to determine the author's main idea
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What is Sedition Act and the Espionage Act.
On the home front during World War I, these two Acts were passed to prevent American citizens from getting in the way of the war effort.
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What is no unreasonable searches and seizures, and warrants cannot be issued without probable cause.
The 4th Amendment
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What is a fragment and a run-on?
What two problems can you find? Name them:
Going to go to town soon. I've really been needing to get some more grass seed for my lawn and I need to get some more soil for my garden. |
Who are Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucy Stone.
These 3 women formed 2 organizations after the Seneca Falls Convention in order to fight for women's suffrage.
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What is a misleading analogy?
Determine the fallacy
Prayer in school is like cereal for breakfast. They both get the morning off to a good start. |
What is the Viet Cong?
The US fought against this group who used guerrilla warfare during the Vietnam War.
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What are Checks and Balances? 200 point bonus- How can the Judicial Branch check the powers of Congress when they pass a new law?
This system ensures that each branch of government has some measure of influence over the other branches and may choose to block procedures of the other branches in order
prevent any one branch from accumulating too much power |
Because both parents work, neither is home to cook, so there is no time to make pot roast, chicken or stew.
200 point bonus- What type of sentence is this?
Correctly join these sentences into 1 correct correctly join this into one sentence: Both parents work. Neither is home to cook. There is no time to make a pot roast. There is no time to cook chicken. There is no time to prepare stew.
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What is Kent State, Ohio. (Known as the Kent State Massacre)
4 students were killed by the Ohio National Guardsmen after they opened fire on a group of anti war demonstrations on May 4th, 1970 on this campus in this state.
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What is- Greenhouse gases are contributing to global warming, and Americans are creating more of it?
What can you infer? 408- species that could be extinct by 2050 if global warming trends continue
6.6 tons- average amount of greenhouse gases emitted annually by each American, an increase of 3.4% since 1990 |
What are Japanese Americans being taken from their homes and placed into internment camps.
During WWII this group of American Citizens became suspects and these actions were taken against them.
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