the Townshend Acts. These Acts held a tax on glass‚ white lead‚ paper‚ paint and tea. The colonists fought this Act greatly. They took the act as least serious as possible‚ defying it at all costs. They found ways to smuggle and import/export goods at higher efficiency than the seditious Acts allowed. As the British learned of these endeavors‚ they landed two regiments of troops in Boston; what followed was the unfortunate Boston "Massacre" in which 10 British redcoats shot 11 colonists. To
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to charter the bank again in 1832 and refused to put federal money into the national bank but put it into pet banks which put the nation into an economic depression‚ Panic of 1837; also united Henry Clay‚ Daniel Webster‚ and other Jackson haters to form the Whig party which saw Jackson as “king” instead of president * Early-mid 19th century women- cult of domesticity that women should do housework etc.; later women began to get education beyond elementary and were inspired by the Second Great
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imported goods‚ and create roads and canals. The south was angry because they felt the American system did not take into consideration their needs and they were excluded. They thought the system only looked out for the north. Without the approval from the south‚ Clay could never pass the system. 6. The separation between north and south influenced everyone to act nice‚ and make everyone happy because of the tension that was forming. They wanted everyone to be content. The name “good feelings” refers
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The Progressive Era reformers and the federal government did bring about many reforms at the national level. The Progressive reformers were able to bring issues such as women suffrage‚ and black rights into the consciousness of Americans‚ but these two reforms were forgotten by President Woodrow Wilson. The reformers were more successful with improving working conditions in the meat packing industry. The more successful reforms by the federal government were trust busting and the passage of child
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History Unit 2 Exam Review 1. The causes of the Depression were easy credit; people were easily able to receive loans‚ lack of financial regulation; the government did not regulate financial services and the shirking demand for exports; Canada relied heavily on exports to boost the economy but as demands decreased‚ prices did too. 2. People faced living conditions in which they had no choice but to receive relief. In order to receive the relief they were forced to hand over their drivers’
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Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois offered different strategies for dealing with the problems of poverty and discrimination faced by Black Americans at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. Using the documents and your knowledge of the period 1877-1915‚ assess the appropriateness of each of these strategies in the historical context in which each was developed. In reference to the years between 1877 and 1915‚ I assessed that‚ based on between each of
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During the 1600s‚ British citizens left England and began settling in the Chesapeake and New England regions‚ yet these regions developed differently. Migrants came to the New World with distinct motives that‚ in effect made the regions develop differently; the New Englanders came in search of religious freedom while the Chesapeake settlers came in search of economic prosperity. The New Englanders search for religious freedom caused them to develop a diverse economy‚ societies with tightly bound
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First‚ the author of document B‚ Adam Smith‚ indicates that the assembly line‚ a manufacturing process in which the product is assembled from one workstation to another workstation‚ improve the the speed and quality of making the product. The reason why it helped the cause of industrialization
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The three colonial regions of British North America had differences economically and socially. Massachusetts Bay in New England struggled with farming due to the rocky land. However Virginia‚ a southern colony‚ and middle colonies had fertile land and had warmer weather. Despite the fact that all three regions were settled by English Colonists‚ all regions had different religious points of view. Farming and religion are differences economically and socially that separated the three colonial regions
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United States. A unitary president‚ or in other words a single-person‚ would provide quicker and more aggressive action than a multi-person executive council. However‚ even though the president is an independent position‚ the Constitution still states forms of checks and balances through the legislative and judicial branch. Article II also states how to select the president. The writers of the Constitution were opposed to Congress or the people electing the president‚ so the compromise was to establish
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