American History Exam Review Unit 1&2 1. Name the empires that were located in America before the arrival of Europeans. The Inca‚ the Olmec‚ the Maya‚ the Aztec‚ the Moundbuilders‚ the Iroquois‚ the Five Civilized Tribes. 2. Name where each tribe was located ( North or South America) and one accomplishment for each of the empires. 3. What was a joint stock company? A joint stock company was when people bought shares in companies that were hoping
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Slavery is an important part of American history because it affected both the north and south. Slaves were an important part of the economy for the south seeing as how it was an agricultural based economy and without slaves there wouldn’t have been such a rich economy. Slaves farmed and processed their cash crops such as cotton‚ sugar‚ and rice. Although‚ slaves were a main part in the southern economy slavery was not approved of by the all of Americans. There were activists that were for slavery
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Colonial American faced several hardships in the new land‚ it was very challenging for any individuals who came by to either escape poverty‚ achieve their dream or to gain religious freedom. However‚ that didn’t stop them in what they wanted to do. Benjamin Franklin‚ Thomas Jefferson and Phillis Wheatley are great set of examples. Therefore today‚ I will be discussing what they communicate about the hardships of this new land‚ new government‚ and new culture. You may perhaps recognize
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In American History X‚ the key determinant ideal is the "capacity of oneself to change". That is‚ our behavior is a result of environmentally deterministic events‚ and thus we have the ability to change our thoughts‚ our behavior‚ and our life situation. In doing so‚ we hold a virtually limitless power to determine the circumstances surrounding our lives and the consequences of those circumstances. The focus of the story centers around the primary character‚ Derrick‚ as we witness his tremendous
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Social 1865-1990 The Presidential victory of the Republican Party in 1860 and the secession of the powerful agrarian states of the South placed the federal government in the hands of the business interests of the North and East. In the years that followed occurred the fundamental change from an agriculture/industry nation to a unified industrial nation. The political changes of the Civil War and Reconstruction were the violent manifestations of this profound change. Statistics of the nation’s economy
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Summary The movie American History X is about a guy named Derek. When he was a teenager he lost his father because a black man killed him. He grew up remembering that his father did not like colored people at all. He got involved in neo-Nazi movement. The neo-Nazi group did not like that refugees were coming over the border and taking their jobs. They also did not like that the black race was taking over Venice Beach. Derek was incarcerated for three years because one day they were at the basketball
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reformers in the period 1865-1914 discussed the growing gap between wealth and poverty in the United states. Compare and contrast 3 of the following authors’ explanations for this condition and their proposals for dealing with it. A. Henry George‚ Progress and Poverty‚ b. Edward Bellamy‚ Looking Backward‚ c. Andrew Carnegie‚ The Gospel of Wealth‚ d. William Graham Sumner‚ What Social Classes owe to Each Other‚ e. Upton Sinclair‚ The Jungle During the period of time between 1865 and 1914‚ America went
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To what extent did the American Revolution fundamentally change American society? In your answer be sure to address the political‚ social‚ and economic effects of the Revolution in the period from 1775 to 1800. Notes from Mr. Williams: This essay was given to 2nd period APUSH on their first in- class essay. Included were 10 documents (if interested in seeing them‚ please come into class). The DBQ writer needed to take ideas and topics from the documents‚ and ADD significant outside fact and
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Once the Americans were free from British control after the American Revolution‚ they started to reevaluate their politics‚ the economy‚ and society. After America broke away from what they saw as a corrupt and damaging government‚ they altered how they wanted to govern their society‚ even though they returned to a more centralized government similar to the British. Those who weren’t educated‚ as viewed by the elite‚ didn’t experience a lot of change however the concept from the revolution still
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English-Native American relations in the 17th and 18th centuries were marked by a series of particularly vicious wars won by the English. The English exercised the mandate of victory to insist that the Native Americans submit to English sovereignty and either confine their activities to strictly delimited tracts of land near areas of English settlement or move out beyond the frontier. Wars and Enforced Migrations h Disease was also a grim factor in the American colonies‚ where the majority of
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