Prompt: Access the validity of the following statement: "Conditions in the United States were ripe for an industrial revolution in the early 1800’s." "Reaping What You Sow": The American Industrial Revolution "The economy of the United States before the War of 1812 was largely shaped by geography..." says Arnold S. Rice. Under Henry Clay’s American system‚ canals‚ railroads‚ and public education paramounted past internal improvements. (Doc B). The inventions oriented towards textile and
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DBQ #3: Analyze how political‚ religious‚ and social factors affect the work of scientists in the sixteenth and seventeenth century The scientific revolution was a time for development and growth in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It was a time for discovery and knowledge. Since this was a new concept‚ it wasn’t widely accepted amongst everyone‚ as we often see when something new emerges. Factors that affected the work of scientists in the sixteenth and seventeenth century were political
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Study Questions for Mann‚ 1491 1. Until quite recently‚ most American history textbooks taught that before Europeans invaded the Americas Indians were savages who lived in isolated groups and had so little impact on their environment that it remained a pristine wilderness. We now know from scientific discoveries that this account was wrong. What is the effect of learning that most of what we have assumed about the past is "wrong in almost every aspect‚" as Mann puts it on page 4? - What
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sugar crops to be easily and cheaply made. Land to grow the sugar crops was also easily accessible during the time of the sugar trade. Document 1 shows a map of the Caribbean and indicates who owned each piece of land at the time. Before the sugar trade‚ Europeans hadn’t utilized this land. This made it easy to acquire and use once sugar
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Lucky because the Inca Empire succumbed to an epidemic of smallpox‚ too advantage of situation by seizing Atahualpa 6. Hernan Cortes-(motive) landed at Veracruz‚ on Gulf of Mexico‚ marched to the city of Tenochtitlan where Aztecs rules. Tlaxcala‚ a state what the arrived at Tenochtitlan‚ thought they were gods offering gifts of gold but was lead to disaster 7. Christopher Columbus-(motive) went to find China but reach Bahamas and then Cuba and then Hispaniola‚ they wanted to convert religion to Christianity
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Instructions for AP BIOLOGY Investigation 12-Fruit Fly Behavior *We will be using Roly-polies (Armadillidium vulgare) to study animal behavior instead of fruit flies. They are members of a family of woodlice in the order Isopoda that are able to roll into a ball. When writing up this lab‚ substitute A. vulgare or “roly-poly” or “pillbug” for Drosophila melanogaster throughout. **You still have to know the basics of fruit fly behavior‚ so be sure to read the lab carefully and save the lab handout
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DBQ The period of the late 1800s and early 1900s was a period during one of the biggest leaps in the industrial movement of America. The industrial revolution’s leaders‚ including Andrew Carnegie‚ John D. Rockefeller‚ and more‚ provided the nation with much needed inventions and transportation‚ thousands of job opportunities‚ and one of the biggest waves of philanthropy the nation has ever seen. The industrial revolution was definitely a period dominated by ’captains of industry.’ ’New and
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Once in the early 1880’s‚ King Leopold of Belgium was the first to colonize‚ or own‚ a private country in central Africa known as the Congo Free State‚ kicking off European imperialism. However‚ the way he managed and took over that region was controversial among European leaders such as Otto von Bismarck‚ who as a result of King Leopold’s actions‚ proposed for a conference to be held regarding the standards for claiming land. This conference was known as the Berlin Conference of 1884. From this
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that Kalphoglou would’ve felt this way because he was a Greek Christian and most likely would be proud of his own history. Similarly‚ in document 7‚ Percy Shelley was also a poet who believed Greek culture was essential for all other cultures to grow. She‚ however‚ was an English romantic poet. It’d be expected for her to praise Greece because romantic poets were all for the Greek revolution and independence. These two weren’t the only people who shared the same point of view on the Greek Revolt.
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he result if European exploration in the early modern time period between 1450 and 1750 negatively impacted the foreign nations that it came in contact with by exhibiting various failed labor systems‚ countries restricting foreign interaction as well as trade and the rise of the Portuguese in the Atlantic Slave Trade. One effect of the expansion of Europeans was various unsuccessful labor systems in the Americas‚ Antonio Vazquez de Espinosa‚ a Spanish missionary‚ expressed his opinion about the
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