America: land of the free‚ home of the brave. Named after Amerigo Vespucci‚ an Italian merchant and cartographer who explored large parts of what is now South America‚ this country historically always had an enormous attraction on immigrants. Give me your tired‚ your poor‚ your huddled masses yearning to breathe free‚ The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these homeless‚ tempest- tost to me‚ I lift my lamp beside the golden door. This famous part of a poem written on a plaque on the inner
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Babbie indicated eight (8) criteria must be met by a discipline for it to be classified as a science. Identify and discuss this statement. “Science is best defined as a careful‚ disciplined‚ logical search for knowledge about any and all aspects of the universe‚ obtained by examination of the best available evidence and always subject to correction and improvement upon [the] discovery of better evidence.” – James Randi (1987) Earl R. Babbie advocated that a discipline became a science when
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Name _____________________________ Date ________________ Period ____ American History Test 1 A Chapter 1 Exploration and Settlement‚ I. Matching: Match the following descriptions with their proper identities. (25 points) _____ 1. country that focused on developing the fur trade rather than stable settlements _____ 2. _____ 3. colony originally settled to be a safe haven for Catholics _____ 4. _____ 5. colony settled by Puritans to be “a light shining from atop a hill” _____ 6. _____
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Chapter 1: The Meeting of Cultures Beginnings of America: • Nearly 12‚000-14‚000 years ago / 9000 BC migrations reached the southern tip of South America / 15th century AD = contact with Europeans -> brought with them diseases (smallpox) ended in: demographic catastrophe‚ weakened societies‚ aided Spanish/ Portuguese exploration America before Columbus: • Adaptation to surroundings = nomadic bands‚ hunting‚ fishing‚ agriculture -> created civilizations • Population: a lot more people
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his crime family and he demands the same loyalty and respect from them. There are three characters throughout the first movie and novel whose interactions display the authority of the Godfather and the importance placed on loyalty respect and fear. Amerigo Bonasera‚ Nazorine Pitelli and Luca Brasi all had encounters with the Godfather and through interactions we see how others regard the Godfather and to what extent he is given authority; through respect‚ fear and loyalty. The movie begins with
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land. They crossed the land bridge that connected Asia and North America‚ which is now long gone. Leif Ericson was probably the first European to reach America. His discovery was passed on unnoticed and he is not real to the modern world. Amerigo Vespucci came upon the northern coast of South America. A few years later‚ someone credited him for discovering the new world and suggested it be named America. Christopher Columbus is credited for discovering North America. He landed in the Caribbean
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dependent upon Europeans to gain a history and an identity — in this case‚ that of a Hindu from India — who could not and were not expected to make contributions of any kind. 2. DISCOVERY After the “Invention” of America‚ the “Discovery” was begun by VESPUCCI. Returning from his voyages to Brazil‚ he slowly realised that he in fact did not reach a fourth Asian continent‚ but rather a ‘New World.’ These areas are seen as a new part of the world — the old world being Europe. The known world is defined as
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During the 16th and 17th centuries‚ when the Europeans started to come over to the new world‚ they discovered a society of Indians that was strikingly different to their own. To understand how different‚ one must first compare and contrast some of the very important differences between them‚ such as how the Europeans considered the Indians to be extremely primitive and basic‚ while‚ considering themselves civilized. The Europeans considered that they were model societies‚ and they thought that the
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America – the huge “Social Experiment?” Early Exploration of the Americas ➢ The Native Americans – 40‚000 BC ➢ Influence of some early explorers: Leif Erickson (1000)‚ Marco Polo (1295)‚ Columbus (1492)‚ Amerigo Vespucci (1507) ➢ The Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) Factors for European Exploration ➢ Desire for East Asian products & a trade route (Northwest Passage) ➢ Religious Competition ➢ Improved Science & Technology ➢ The “Renaissance Spirit” What factors spurred
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voyage to reach China by sailing west around world ix. Columbus was wrong about earth’s size—ignorant of Americas‚ believed Caribbean were Indies x. Returned with exotic items/native Americans—hailed as a hero xi. Amerigo Vespucci sailed along south American coast‚ concluded land was not Asia—later‚ land was named America xii. Vasco Nunez de Balboa sent to explore America—crossed Isthmus of Panama‚ became first European to see Pacific xiii. Ferdinand
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