liberated by the Soviet Army in April 1944. More than 280‚000 civilians‚ most of whom were Jews‚ were deported or killed during the Axis Occupation. Jews have lived in Odessa since the eighteenth century. Five Jews established themselves in Odessa in 1789‚ soon after the Russians took control of it. In 1795‚ the Jewish population increased to 240. Also‚ evidence
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AP US HISTORY FREE RESPONSE QUESTIONS SINCE 1990 I. Colonial Time 1607 - 1775 1. Throughout the colonial period‚ economic concerns had more to do with the settling of British North America than did religious concerns. Assess the validity of this statement with specific reference to economic and religious concerns. (90) 2. For the period before 1750‚ analyze the ways in which Britain’s policy of salutary neglect influenced the development of American society as illustrated
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AP US HISTORY FREE RESPONSE QUESTIONS SINCE 1971 I. Colonial Time 1607 - 1775 1. Puritanism bore within itself the seeds of its own destruction. Apply this generalization. (74) 2. In the seventeenth century‚ New England Puritans tried to create a model society. What were their aspirations‚ and to what extent were those aspirations fulfilled during the seventeenth century? (83) 3. Between 1607 and 1763‚ Americans gained control of their political
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The period I chose to focus on was the Antebellum Period of 1789-1812. From this period the three things I chose to touch upon were the Cotton Gin‚ Early Industrialization and the Rise in Manufacturing in the North‚ and the canal system during the Antebellum Period in American history. This period is considered to be the period right before the civil war and after the War of 1812. It was described by the rise of abolition and the gradual polarization of the country between abolitionists and supporters
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Chapter 9 The Confederation and the Constitution 1776-1790 The Pursuit of Equality The Continental Army officers formed an exclusive hereditary order called the Society of the Cincinnati. Virginia Statue for Religious Freedom- created in 1786 by Thomas Jefferson and his co-reformers; stated that religion should not be imposed on anybody and that each person decided his/her own faith. The Philadelphia Quakers in 1775 founded the first anti-slavery society. The 1st Continental Congress called
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George Washington‚ elected the first president in 1789‚ set up a cabinet form of government‚ with departments of State‚ Treasury‚ and War‚ along with an Attorney General (the Justice Department was created in 1870). Based in New York‚ the new government acted quickly to rebuild the nation’s financial structure. Enacting the program of Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton‚ the government assumed the Revolutionary war debts of the states and the national government‚ and refinanced them with new federal
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William Truman March 5th 2014 Timeline Part I Major Event/Epoch in American History Time Period/Date(s) Description and Significance of the People/Event(s) to American History 1) Describe three different American Indian cultures prior to colonization. 1421-1521 1492-1504 1541- 1937 Aztec Indians: They were located in central Mexico and they spoke Nahuati language. In 1520-1521 Small pox hit‚ between 10% and 5o% of population was affected. The government was a system of
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been flung out into the courts of the building by the revolutionary captors‚ and after suffering grievous diminution and damage were finally stored up and forgotten in the vaults of the library of the (socalled) Arsenal. Here they were discovered in 1840 by Francois Ravaisson‚ who devoted himself to their arrangement‚ elucidation and
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AP U.S. History and AP English Language and Composition AP AMERICAN STUDIES Course description: This course examines the development of the American character and culture through the study of history‚ literature‚ art‚ music‚ and film. This integrated approach to the literary‚ political‚ social‚ and economic patterns of our past and present develops in the students the capacity to work critically‚ independently‚ and collaboratively. This course satisfies the requirements of AP U.S.
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criminal investigation for the police. The Citizens were responsible for watching there own community. And there was no training or pay for doing any of these duties. The policing styles used during this time were followed by the English. During the 1840s‚ The Metropolitan America‚ Focused mainly on the crime prevention rather then post-crime detection and punishment. Police Officer started to get paid to perform their duties and there was 24-hour coverage. In the Frontier America Businessmen would
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