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Primary Professional Military Education PPMEs All Blocks Test Bank. Block 1 Defending the New Nation: Who was the last active Continental Navy officer and the first U.S. Navy commissioned officer? John Barry Why were the border lakes between the U.S. and Canada of strategic importance during the War of 1812? The Americans planned to win the war by conquering Canada and needed control of the lakes to do so. Which of the following was NOT an innovation in naval warfare introduced...

Place the events in the correct chronological order. 1. 2. 3. ● a. Following border disputes, Congress declared war on Mexico ● b. The United States formally annexed Texas. ● c. Thousands of people flocked to California in search of gold RATIONALE Sectional tensions over slavery increased as the nation expanded westward. This process began in earnest after Congress annexed Texas in 1845, and intensified after Congress declared war on Mexico in 1846. At the war's end, the U.S...

Place the events in the correct chronological order. 1. 2. 3. ● a. Following border disputes, Congress declared war on Mexico ● b. The United States formally annexed Texas. ● c. Thousands of people flocked to California in search of gold RATIONALE Sectional tensions over slavery increased as the nation expanded westward. This process began in earnest after Congress annexed Texas in 1845, and intensified after Congress declared war on Mexico in 1846. At the war's end, the U.S...

Social Contract - ANSWER-An agreement between people and government in which citizens consent to being governed so long as the government protects their natural rights. Natural Rights - ANSWER-the idea that all humans are born with rights, which include the right to life, liberty, and property State of Nature - ANSWER-A theory on how people might have lived before societies came into existence. is a condition in which all of us live individually and solitarily, prior to the existence of so...

Primary Professional Military Education PPMEs All Blocks Test Bank. Block 1 Defending the New Nation: Who was the last active Continental Navy officer and the first U.S. Navy commissioned officer? John Barry Why were the border lakes between the U.S. and Canada of strategic importance during the War of 1812? The Americans planned to win the war by conquering Canada and needed control of the lakes to do so. Which of the following was NOT an innovation in naval warfare introduced by the U.S. betwe...

Place the events in the correct chronological order. 1. 2. 3. ● a. Following border disputes, Congress declared war on Mexico ● b. The United States formally annexed Texas. ● c. Thousands of people flocked to California in search of gold RATIONALE Sectional tensions over slavery increased as the nation expanded westward. This process began in earnest after Congress annexed Texas in 1845, and intensified after Congress declared war on Mexico in 1846. At the war's end, the U.S...

Exam (elaborations) PPMES Block 2 - Navy History and Heritage Block 1 Defending the New Nation: Who was the last active Continental Navy officer and the first U.S. Navy commissioned officer? John Barry Why were the border lakes between the U.S. and Canada of strategic importance during the War of 1812? The Americans planned to win the war by conquering Canada and needed control of the lakes to do so. Which of the following was NOT an innovation in naval warfare introduced by the U.S. bet...

PPMES Block 2 - Navy History and Heritage Block 1 Defending the New Nation: Who was the last active Continental Navy officer and the first U.S. Navy commissioned officer? John Barry Why were the border lakes between the U.S. and Canada of strategic importance during the War of 1812? The Americans planned to win the war by conquering Canada and needed control of the lakes to do so. Which of the following was NOT an innovation in naval warfare introduced by the U.S. between 1775 and 1815? ...

SEJPME Module 3 lesson 4 ish and on This command diagram highlights the "big picture" of the National Military Command Structure. Notice that the operational chain of command runs directly from the President to the SecDef and then to the Unified or CCDRs. This is a clear and unambiguous line of authority. A goal of Goldwater-Nichols was to "strengthen civilian authority in DoD" and to "place clear responsibility on the commanders of unified and specified commands for the accomplishment of m...

Primary Professional Military Education PPMEs All Blocks Test Bank. Block 1 Defending the New Nation: Who was the last active Continental Navy officer and the first U.S. Navy commissioned officer? John Barry Why were the border lakes between the U.S. and Canada of strategic importance during the War of 1812? The Americans planned to win the war by conquering Canada and needed control of the lakes to do so. Which of the following was NOT an innovation in naval warfare introduced by the U.S. betwe...