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13 original colonies - Delaware - Pennsylvania - New Jersey - Georgia - Connecticut - Massachusetts Bay - Maryland - South Carolina - New Hampshire - Virginia - New York - North Carolina - Rhode Island The Great Lakes - Huron - Ontario - Michigan - Erie - Superior Two largest rivers - Mississippi River - Missouri River Seven continents - North America - South America - Europe -Africa -Asia Australia -Antartica carrying capacity the number o...

US Regents Review 2023 Exam Questions with All Correct Answers Uncle Tom's Cabin - ANSWER Harriet Beecher Stowe's book about the brutality of slavery How the Other Half Lives - ANSWER A book by Jacob Riis which photographed the conditions of tenement living during the Industrial Revolution. John Locke - ANSWER Influenced... •the founding fathers •The Bill of Rights (natural rights) •"Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" •Checks and balanc...

What is the tariff of 1816? Protected tariff designed to aid new american industries In McCulloch v. Maryland, the Supreme Court did what? *end legitiment means not prohibited law constitutional In the convention of 1818, the US and Grt Britain agreed to? *10 year joint occupation of Oregon The issuance of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823 was prompted by? Fear of France/ Latin America/**Spanish Rule What were the provisions of the Missouri Compromise? Was a slave stat...

Civil Procedure I — Final Exam Subject Matter Jurisdiction - ANS The power of a court to hear a particular type of case. Federal courts are of limited jurisdiction; they do not have broad SMJ like state courts do. Concurrent Jurisdiction - ANS The state courts can hear the majority of claims that can be heard in federal courts. What do you need to have SMJ in a Federal Court? - ANS Constitutional and Statutory Authority Majority are brought under Federal Qu...

Noah Webster, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and James Fenimore Cooper were all significant as - Answer-contributors to a more distinctly American literature. All of the following reflect the views of Americans expressed by Alexis de Tocqueville and other early nineteenth century European visitors EXCEPT - Answer-Americans exhibited a strong sense of social deference. Besides mass production through the use of interchangeable parts, Eli Whitney also influenced American history by his invention of the ...

Natural Law - ANSWER-Philosophy which emphasizes the individual's right to make personal choices as long as those choices do not interfere with another's right to make personal choices. Legal Positivism - ANSWER-Philosophy which emphasizes the institutional rule of law and which distinguishes law from morality. "Hard cases make bad law." Sociological jurisprudence - ANSWER-Philosophy which promotes society's values as the measuring stick for right and wrong; it evaluates a legal rule ...

Civil Procedure: Jurisdiction & Venue - Can a litigant raise personal jurisdiction challenges in an amended answer? - Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(h) permits litigants to raise personal-jurisdiction challenges for the first time in an answer that is amended as a matter of course under Rule 15(a)(1). Civil Procedure: Law Applied by Federal Courts - Erie Doctrine (Diversity Jurisdiction) - Erie R. Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938), the court is to apply whatever law would be applied by...

APUSH Period 4 Review | questions and answers Louisiana Purchase - 1803 purchase of the Louisiana territory from France. Made by Jefferson, this doubled the size of the US. Lewis and Clark Expedition - Jefferson sent them out to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Territory; the explored as far west as the Pacific Ocean (guide Sacagewa) Marbury v. Madison - This case establishes the Supreme Court's power of Judicial Review Judicial Review - Allows the court to determine the constitut...

Civil Procedure Final Exam litigation - ANS the process by which parties seek to resolve their dispute by going to court Sources of legal authority - ANS A. 1) constitutions (highest form of law); 2) statutes (acts of congress, peoples reps from each state); 3) court rules (procedures in every court system); 4) case law primary, and potentially binding ; 5) treaties; 6) regulations; 7) ordinances stare decisis - ANS top down precedent, must abide by decided cases-This e...

B - ANSWER-1. John Winthrop told the Puritans that their society would be regarded as "a city upon a hill." But first he explained that there would always be inequalities of wealth and power, that some people would always be in positions of authority, and that others would be dependent. His statements best illustrate the Puritans' (A) reaction to unsuccessful socialist experiments in the Netherlands (B) acceptance of the traditional belief that social order depended on a system of ranks (C) i...