MTTC History (09) Study Guide
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Frontier Theory - ✔✔argument advanced by Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893,
american democracy was formed by the American frontier, the moving frontier line
Congress of Vienne - ✔✔Held in 1814-1815. Formed to fix the problems Napoléon
caused. All European countries were invited, but only Austria (Klaus von Metternich),
Russia(Tsar Alexander I), Prussia, England (Castlereagh) made any big decisions. a.
Established the concert of Europe a system whereby the major powers agreed to solve
their differences through a consensus arrived at through diplomacy, negotiation and
agreement, rather than war.
CPI - ✔✔measures changes in the price level of a market basket of consumer goods and
services purchased by households. A statistical estimate constructed using the prices of
a sample of representative items whose prices are collected periodically.
GDP - ✔✔the monetary value of all the finished goods and services produced within a
country's borders in a specific time period. Though GDP is usually calculated on an
annual basis, it can be calculated on a quarterly basis as well.
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, Thurgood Marshall - ✔✔a. Supreme court justice and civil rights activist.
b. Legal counsel for the NAACP, he guided litigation that destroyed the legal under
pinning's of Jim Crow segregation. As counsel to the NAACP, he utilized the judiciary
to champion equality for African Americans. In 1954, he won the Brown v. Board of
Education case,
c. The nation's first black Justice.
Characteristics of Sumerian Cities - ✔✔a. Sumerians inhabited various city states. City
Center.
b. Each centered around a temple called a Ziggurat.
c. They believed that a God owned each city.
d. Since the Sumer city states were not united, they fell to the Babylonians.
Rachael Carson, Silent Spring - ✔✔a. Example drawn from real communities where the
use of DDT had caused damage to wildlife, birds, bees, agricultural, domestic pets, and
even humans.
b. It was observed that the eagles had started to disappear and they weren't
reproducing, falcons started to die, etc. The symptoms in these deaths were very much
universal
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Questions and Answers 100% Pass
Frontier Theory - ✔✔argument advanced by Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893,
american democracy was formed by the American frontier, the moving frontier line
Congress of Vienne - ✔✔Held in 1814-1815. Formed to fix the problems Napoléon
caused. All European countries were invited, but only Austria (Klaus von Metternich),
Russia(Tsar Alexander I), Prussia, England (Castlereagh) made any big decisions. a.
Established the concert of Europe a system whereby the major powers agreed to solve
their differences through a consensus arrived at through diplomacy, negotiation and
agreement, rather than war.
CPI - ✔✔measures changes in the price level of a market basket of consumer goods and
services purchased by households. A statistical estimate constructed using the prices of
a sample of representative items whose prices are collected periodically.
GDP - ✔✔the monetary value of all the finished goods and services produced within a
country's borders in a specific time period. Though GDP is usually calculated on an
annual basis, it can be calculated on a quarterly basis as well.
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, Thurgood Marshall - ✔✔a. Supreme court justice and civil rights activist.
b. Legal counsel for the NAACP, he guided litigation that destroyed the legal under
pinning's of Jim Crow segregation. As counsel to the NAACP, he utilized the judiciary
to champion equality for African Americans. In 1954, he won the Brown v. Board of
Education case,
c. The nation's first black Justice.
Characteristics of Sumerian Cities - ✔✔a. Sumerians inhabited various city states. City
Center.
b. Each centered around a temple called a Ziggurat.
c. They believed that a God owned each city.
d. Since the Sumer city states were not united, they fell to the Babylonians.
Rachael Carson, Silent Spring - ✔✔a. Example drawn from real communities where the
use of DDT had caused damage to wildlife, birds, bees, agricultural, domestic pets, and
even humans.
b. It was observed that the eagles had started to disappear and they weren't
reproducing, falcons started to die, etc. The symptoms in these deaths were very much
universal
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