2011 DBQ: (Form A) 1. Analyze the international and domestic challenges the 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
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Westward Expansion and Sectionalism (1840-1861) At the end of the Mexican War during Polk’s term as president‚ many new lands west of Texas were yielded to the United States‚ and the debate over the westward expansion of slavery was rekindled. Southern politicians and slave owners demanded that slavery be allowed in the West because they feared that a closed door would spell doom for their economy and way of life. Whig Northerners‚ however‚ believed that slavery should be banned from the new territories
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The Compromise of 1850 was effective for the southern states even though California was a slave free state in 1849 when California joined the union. (1) Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois managed to push this agreement for California to enter the Union as a free state but there were concessions made to slave owners about other acquisitions. (1)With this result the people in the southern states felt a relief of tension and a cause for celebration. This gave the southerners the right to retain
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AP US HISTORY 2011-2012 Course Overview: AP US History is designed as a college level history course with corresponding academic expectations for high school 11th graders. Chronologically‚ AP US History covers the vast expanse of our nation’s past from colonial beginnings in the 1600s to the present. Several themes of American History will emphasized for students to be able to think conceptually about our nation’s past. Such themes will include American diversity‚ culture‚ identity‚ economic
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Most of the reasons concerning agrarian discontent in the late nineteenth century stem from supposed threats posed by monopolies and trusts‚ railroads‚ money shortages and the demonetization of silver‚ though in many cases their complaints were not valid. The American farmer at this time already had his fair share of problems‚ perhaps even perceived as unfair in regards to the success industrialized businessmen were experiencing. Nevertheless‚ crops such as cotton and wheat‚ which were once the
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In the 1930’s‚ economic disaster and the rise of political extremism contributed to a Japanese society where war and violence were glorified. With 65 million people crammed on Japan’s little islands‚ population was suffocatingly dense. With so many mouths to feed‚ Japanese agriculture was pushed to its limits. The overworked Japanese land could not produce enough food to feeds its people and Japan was forced to rely heavily on imports. Mass starvation ensued. Daughters were sold into prostitution
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The Progressive Era was a thirty year period in which the United States was completely reformed. Actions were taken to improve working conditions for laborers‚ create a sexually unbiased work system and regulate the economy. President Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson both helped create a more direct democracy in which the people would have a voice. During those thirty years‚ amendments 16 to 19 were ratified to regulate and reform the country. Muckrakers were writers who worked for the printing
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THE COMPROMISE OF 1850 A little after the Manifest Destiny‚ the U.S. faced a series of troubles of sectional balances over whether or not the land acquired should be free or slavery states. The Compromise of 1850‚ proposed by Senator Henry Clay‚ included measures that dealt with the land acquired specifically from the Mexican War. Until 1845‚ it had seemed likely that slavery would be confined to the areas where it already existed. It had been given limits by the Missouri Compromise in 1820 and
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APUSH Mrs. Passerelli APUSH The stock market crash in the 1920’s shook the nation from top to bottom. There was immense amount of chaos through the country because people had lost their entire life savings and weren’t ever going to get them back and some people because of sudden poverty were turning into homeless citizens. All banks had to shut its doors for the public because there was no more money left to give. President Hoover and his administration used the “leave it alone” approach‚ which
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The motivations of American Revolutionary movement‚ at its peak from 1765 to 1780‚ are a much disputed subject between historians like Bernard Bailyn and Esmond Wright. One of the questionable motivations is the demand for no taxation without representation from the colonies at the time. It becomes clear through the documents of the Virginia House of Burgesses and Stamp Act Congress as well as letters from Thomas Jefferson that no taxation without representation was the primary motivation and unifier
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