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Dec 8, 2007 5:36 AM
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How many strips on the US Flag
What is the exact name of the country between Canada and Mexico
Who did we buy Louisiana from (person)
How did we get Florida
What/who are Mississippians
Which state is the 1st state.
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Dec 11, 2007 3:46 PM
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How many strips on the US Flag
13
What is the exact name of the country between Canada and Mexico
The United State of America
Who did we buy Louisiana from (person)
Napoleon
How did we get Florida
Purchased in 1819 from Spain
What/who are Mississippians
People from Mississippi
Which state is the 1st state.
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Dec 14, 2007 11:24 PM
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Did you have to look up any?
The Mississippians are people from Mississippi , however, thats not really what I was looking for.
The Mississipians were just one of a long list of people that were in the Americas for a very long time.
The Paleo-Indians, beginning about 12,000 B.C., lived in small family groups. They are also called Bluff Dwellers because some lived in caves or under bluffs by streams. They lived alongside or near streams and wandered in the uplands. They probably moved frequently, following herds of mammoth and mastodon. They gathered greens, seeds, fruits, nuts, roots, and mushrooms. They hunted eggs, insects, small animals, and fish, as well as big game like mastodon.
Later, in the Archaic period, (beginning about 7,000 B.C.), Native Americans depended less on big game like mastodon, which had become scarce due to overhunting. Animals we recognize today like deer and bear, squirrel and raccoon, became the focus of their hunts. As acorns from nearby woods became a bigger part of their diet, they had to travel less in search of food. Village sites began to be semipermanent. People moved from streams to hills as the seasons changed, returning to the same sites each year.
Agriculture probably was practiced originally almost by accident. Seeds dropped on the trampled open ground around the campsites grew to provide food on a regular basis. As food became easier to find, people had more time to make finer tools and clothing.
During the Woodland period, (beginning about 1,000 B.C.), inhabitants of the Ozarks probably continued to rely heavily on hunting, while gathering and agriculture became more important in areas with better soils outside the region.
In the Mississippian period (beginning about AD 900) Native Americans in major river bottoms developed great cities with large ceremonial mounds and defensive earthworks. These cities, based on agriculture, developed outside the Ozarks. The Ozark bottoms could not support a large population.
Now, according to the History Channel TV show, we are going to have to rethink the "first American". Seems artifacts have been found that date to around 25,000 years ago and suggest several different sources, one was along the northern route from europe to iceland, Greenland and then to Canada, the other is from China/Russia and traveled the Pacific Kelp foest all the way to Baja Mexico.
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Dec 18, 2007 2:03 PM
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No, didn't need to look them up.
I didn't know the native American angle on the Mississippians though, very interesting, thanks. BTW, is this really on the US Citizen test? Are they really asking archeological questions?
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Dec 20, 2007 11:48 PM
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M-R
You asked, " BTW, is this really on the US Citizen test"
No, there was nothing hear, so I put some easy questions up.
Sorry to miss lead you.
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I have to admit that I forgot the first state being Delaware, even though it is on their license plate. i just remember that NH was number 9 which was enough for the constitution to take effect. I'm more of a Jeffersonian Anti-Federalist myself, but I guess we had to pay back the war debt somehow.
I know that we like to say we "bought" Florida from Spain, but didn't the US Army invade under Jackson, a full year before we bought it. I'm pretty sure we went to try to remove the Seminoles, not to mention that the Southern states didn't like the fact that escaped slaves had a refuge in Florida.
Our national expansion is pretty blood soaked. I guess we just couldn't learn to extend the liberties our nation was supposed to preserve, to the natives and the African-Americans, oh or the Mexicans.
The US was founded on such noble principles, but I think for most of our history, we have failed to live up to them. But at least we have the founding principles to remind us of how far we have to go.
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Mar 9, 2008 10:38 PM
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Siyo,wrong and wrong
(What is the exact name of the country between Canada and Mexico
The United State of America)Turtle Island
(Who did we buy Louisiana from (person)
Napoleon)How could yuou buy something that we never sold?
(How did we get Florida
Purchased in 1819 from Spain)again,not possible they did NOT own it,the Peoples (just like killumbus did with those he "found")were murdered horribly,or sold into slavery
(What/who are Mississippians
People from Mississippi) A GREAT Native culture here thousands of years before Euros ever knew they were lost,or knew about bathing
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Mar 16, 2008 12:34 AM
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How many strips on the US Flag.
>>Trick question. It has 13 STRIPES, but as many strips as a commie can cut the fabric into.
What is the exact name of the country between Canada and Mexico.
>>Another trick question. If you travel to Mexico from Canada north across the north pole (say W100 deg long.), then back south across the south pole and back up through South America, you go through many many countries...Russian federations, India, Antarctica, and back north to Mexico.
Who did we buy Louisiana from (person)
>>Tricky, tricky...A good American might say Napoleon. But it as actually his foreign minister, Marquess de Barbé-Marbois that offered the whole territory after Napoleon realized that he needed quick cash. [Payday loans were not yet common.] We actually bought it, however, from Barbé Marbois, who signed the treaty for France. The USA only wanted to buy New Orleans, but ended upwith the whole territory up to Saskatch.
How did we get Florida
>>Everyone knows that our founding fathers from New York retired there.
What/who are Mississippians
>>Mississippian was a subperiod of the Carboniferous period lasting from roughly 359 to 318 Ma (million years ago). So it was organisms that lived at that time.
Which state is the 1st state.
>> WISCONSIN! GO PACKERS!
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Mar 17, 2008 4:15 PM
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How many strips on the US Flag? 13
What is the exact name of the country between Canada and Mexico? United States of America
Who did we buy Louisiana from (person)? Napoleon
How did we get Florida? We bought Florida from Spain. In 1819, by terms of the Adams-Onís Treaty, Spain ceded Florida to the United States in exchange for the American renunciation of any claims on Texas and $5 million.
What/who are Mississippians? The Mississippians developed advanced societies in eastern North America before the arrival of Europeans.
Which state is the 1st state. Delaware
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Apr 6, 2008 4:00 AM
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Well I knew the answers to 2,3,4 and 5. Since they've already been posted, I won't repeat. I didn't how many stripes on the flag or the 1st state though.
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Apr 19, 2008 5:00 AM
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How many strips on the US Flag , Most got this right, 13.
What is the exact name of the country between Canada and Mexico.
The Declaration of Independence set on paper the name of our country. "The United States Of America"
Who did we buy Louisiana from (person). While it is true that someone other than Napolian signed the legal documents for the sale. Napolian was given the athority to sell the land at a nigotiated price, the price peramiters were met and Napolian signed off on the sale.
How did we get Florida
I don't believe any money changed hands.
http://books.google.com/books?id=-vk3wM-6i3MC&pg=PA17&lpg=PA17&dq=How+jackson+got+florida+from+spain&source=web&ots=34azyUVKY5&sig=Q7DQVfyJr2q0VBbYzIB4x1Tk-94&hl=en
What/who are Mississippians
were explained
Which state is the 1st state. Delawear
Ron
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May 18, 2008 3:24 PM
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There are 13 strips on the US Flag
The country between Canada and Mexico is "the United States of America"
We bought Louisiana from Napoleaon
We acquired Florida from Spain as a result of the War of 1812
Delaware is the first state.
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We did not get Florida in the war of 1812, The rest are CORRECT
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Aug 11, 2009 10:08 PM
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How many strips on the US Flag
I dunno how many strips, but there are 13 stripes - lol
What is the exact name of the country between Canada and Mexico
America
Who did we buy Louisiana from (person)
What person? Wasn't it the French Guv?
How did we get Florida
I'm pretty sure one of the future Pres invaded it and took it from Spain...
What/who are Mississippians
People who live on riverboats on the Miss River, some are casinos
Which state is the 1st state.
D.C.
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