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  2. Tourniquet - Wikipedia

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    Tourniquet being applied to an arm on a training dummy A combat tourniquet commonly used by combat medics (military environment) and EMS (civilian environment).. A tourniquet is a device that is used to apply pressure to a limb or extremity in order to create ischemia or stopping the flow of blood.

  3. History of the United States government - Wikipedia

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    The federal government prepared for an escalation of the conflict with the Force Bill, but the crisis was averted after a compromise was made in the Tariff of 1833. Following this incident, the United States moved away from protectionism. [90] [91] Several parts of government saw major reforms during Jackson's presidency.

  4. Emergency tourniquet - Wikipedia

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    Correct use of tourniquet devices has been shown to save lives under austere conditions with comparatively low risk of injury. In field trials, prompt application of emergency tourniquets before the patient goes into shock are associated with higher survival rates than any other scenario where tourniquets were used later or not at all. [2] [3]

  5. Timeline of the history of the United States (1790–1819)

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    Pennsylvania History, Vol. 68, No. 4, The World of Elizabeth Drinker: Celebrating the Tenth Anniversary of the Publication of Her Diary (Autumn 2001), pp. 465–482; Lazaro, David E. (2001). Construction in context : a 1790s gown from Medford, Massachusetts (PhD). University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Finkelman, Paul.

  6. AP United States History - Wikipedia

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    The AP U.S. History course is designed to provide the same level of content and instruction that students would face in a freshman-level college survey class. It generally uses a college-level textbook as the foundation for the course and covers nine periods of U.S. history, spanning from the pre-Columbian era to the present day. The percentage ...

  7. History of the United States (1789–1815) - Wikipedia

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    Enacting Hamilton's program, the government assumed the Revolutionary War debts of the states and the national government, and refinanced them with new federal bonds. It paid for the program through new tariffs and taxes; the tax on whiskey led to a revolt in the west; Washington raised an army and suppressed it with minimal violence.

  8. Political history of the world - Wikipedia

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    The political history of the world is the history of the various political entities created by the human race throughout their existence and the way these states define their borders. Throughout history , political systems have expanded from basic systems of self-governance and monarchy to the complex democratic and totalitarian systems that ...

  9. AP United States Government and Politics - Wikipedia

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    The material in the course is composed of multiple subjects from the Constitutional roots of the United States to recent developments in civil rights and liberties. The AP United States Government examination covers roughly six subjects listed below in approximate percentage composition of the examination. [2]