1) Irish Potato Famine. 1845-1849. Called the Great Famine. In the early 19th century‚ Ireland’s tenant farmers struggled to provide for themselves and to supply the British market with cereal crops. By the early 1840s half the Irish population‚ mostly the rural poor‚ became to depend almost exclusively on the potato for their diet. The rest of the population also consumed it in large quantities. A heavy reliance on just one or two high-yielding types of potato greatly reduced the
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AP Questions‚ 1980-2007 1 List of AP and AP-related questions from the past twenty-seven years. [Compiled by Steve Armstrong] (Updated‚ May 14‚ 2007) Questions labeled “AP” are Copyright © 1980-2005 College Entrance Examination Board and Educational Testing Service. All rights reserved. 1607-1763 AP 2007 Alternate The Colonial Period The French and Indian War (1754-1763) altered the relationship between Britain and its North American colonies. Assess this change with regard to TWO of the following
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Matthews was a cult leader and was acquitted for the poisoning of Elijah Pierson. The Folgers‚ cult members‚ attempted to implicate Truth for the murder. Meanwhile‚ Peter took a job on a whaling ship in 1839. He wrote his mother three times between 1840 and 1841. When the ship docked in 1842‚ Truth could not find her son anywhere on the boat‚ and never heard from him
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E C U L A R 14 THE ARTS 15 S C I E N C E 16 C O N C L U S I O N : T O W A R D S 1 8 4 8 MAPS NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX 253 277 297 309 321 332 339 MAPS i Europe in 1789 2 Europe in 1810 3 Europe in 1840 4 World Population in Large Cities: 1800-1850 5 Western Culture 1815-1848: Opera 6 The States of Europe in 1836 7 Workshop of the World 8 Industrialization of Europe: 1850 9 Spread of French Law page 309 310 311 31a 314 316 317 318 320 PREFACE THIS book traces the transformation
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United States faced between 1968 and 1974‚ and evaluate how President Richard Nixon’s administration responded to them. (Form B) 1. Explain the ways that participation in political campaigns and elections in the United States changed between 1815 and 1840‚ and analyze forces and events that led to these changes. 2010 DBQ: (Form A) 1. In what ways did ideas and values held by Puritans influence the political‚ economic‚ and social development of the New England colonies from 1630 through the
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CHAPTER 23 The Early Industrial Revolution‚ 1760–1851 I0.Causes of the Industrial Revolution A0.Population Growth 10. In the eighteenth century more reliable food supplies‚ earlier marriage‚ high birthrates‚ and more widespread resistance to disease contributed to significant population growth in Europe. England and Wales experienced particularly rapid population growth. 20. Rapid population growth meant that children accounted for a relatively high proportion of the total population
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2024 Born in New York in 1815‚ Elizabeth Cady Stanton lived during multiple social reform movements‚ including the abolitionist‚ temperance‚ education‚ and prison reform movements. From childhood‚ Stanton was aware of and formed strong opinions on unjust legislation due to her father’s role as a lawyer and Justice on the New York Supreme Court. In adulthood‚ Stanton became a member of the abolitionist movement and married Henry Stanton‚ an abolitionist lecturer‚ in 1840. While attending the World
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Before the year of 1848‚ the Italian faced a lot of difficulties to urge the unification movement. Until‚ 1848‚ the situation had been changed and directly contributed to the unification movement. After 1815 Italy was once again a mere geographical expression. Austria was to control a large part of Italy directly‚ that is‚ Lombardy and Venetia‚ and indirectly through the restored Bourbon Kings in some minor Italian states. Italian unification was once
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his times influenced Hugo’s social views and politics‚ which included a deep concern with human rights‚ social injustice‚ and poverty as the root of evil. Born in Besançon‚ France‚ in 1802‚ Hugo grew up in the years of Napoleon Bonaparte’s empire. In 1815 the empire collapsed at the battle of Waterloo‚ which Hugo describes in detail in Les Misérables‚ and a constitutional monarchy was established. Hugo’s father was a general in the Napoleonic army with republican sympathies while his middle-class mother
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export of machinery‚ skilled workers‚ and manufacturing techniques. The British monopoly could not last forever‚ especially since some Britons saw profitable industrial opportunities abroad. The years of power and danger The Danger at Home‚ 1815-32‚ Reform : The industrial revolution changed many sectors in Britain beginning with agriculture that dominated the British economy for centuries as new farming systems
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