ADVANCED PLACEMENT UNITED STATES HISTORY SUMMER 2013 READING ASSIGNMENT CHAPTER 1: "Columbus‚ the Indians‚ and Human Progress" (pp. 1-11) 1. According to Zinn‚ what is his main purpose for writing A People’s History of the United States? To tell history from the viewpoint of the victims and not overlooking what the country has done to become what they are today. It includes the cruelty and hardships the people had to go through. 2. What is Zinn’s thesis for pages 1-11? He will be as blunt as he
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Grammar as Rhetoric and Style The Appositive An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that tells the reader something about a nearby noun or pronoun. In each sentence below‚ the appositive is underlined. The italics shows the noun or pronoun that the appositive details. It turned out that one of the top students‚ Denny Davies‚ had learned of this rule. Kennedy‚ a wiry fifty-nine-year-old who has a stern buzz cut‚ was in 1997 the principal of Sarasota High School. In 1981‚ two professors
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3)The Development of Russia a)Eastern Slavs converted by missionaries from Byzantine Empire to Orthodox Christianity. Eastern Orthodoxy rejects pope‚ but else wise is similar to Rom. Cat. b)Loose but real political unification of eastern Slavic territories under single prince and dynasty c)Feudal division into boyard nobility and commoner peasantry d)After death of Prince Iaroslav the Wise‚ Kievan principality disintegrated into competing political units- 1504 e)The Mongol Yoke and the Rise of Moscow
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CAUSES OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION DBQ This task is based on the accompanying documents. Some of these documents have been edited for the purpose of this task. This task is designed to test your ability to work with historic documents. As you analyze the documents‚ take into account both the source of the document and the author’s point of view Historical Context The French Revolution of 1789 had many long-range causes. Political‚ social‚ and economic conditions in France contributed to the
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The American Revolution The colonists developed a sense of their identity and unity as Americans by the eve of the revolution to a great extent. They discovered who they are and how to become unified progressively from 1750 to 1776 and the documents come from a first hand source as to what the colonists went through and how they progressed as the years went by. Although they wanted to get absolute separation‚ they were adamant on their attempts of becoming independent from England. By the eve
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by the Revolution of 1800‚ the Louisiana Purchase of 1803‚ the Alien and Sedition Acts‚ and by dismissing the excise taxes on America. The Revolution of 1800 started with the presidential election between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson defeated Adams but tied with Aaron Burr when they received the same number of electoral votes. The tie was broken by the House of Representatives. Most Federalists would be in favor of Burr but surprisingly Jefferson won with a total of ten states voting
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structure because it unified power in the state and lessened the amount of chaos. The Han relied on their bureaucratic class of trained officials to exercise political control; whereas in Rome bureaucracy was given as a reward to returned war heroes. The Han’s bureaucrats‚ the Shi‚ were trained in the Confucian ways. This made the officials more reliable and prone to do the right thing. The Shi were also taught to embody the law and enforce it in the state. This method of “lead by example” helped
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TOVREA AP World History 600 BCE-600 CE - Daily Schedule 15B 8000 BCE- 600 BCE Unit Assessment HW: Vocab/Study 2.1 16A In class: Lecture Americas; test analysis; map activity HW: Vocab/Study 2.1 17B In class: Lecture Americas; test analysis; map activity HW: Vocab/Study 2.1 18A In class: Quiz 2.1; Rome video Persia Webquest activity; Lecture What is an empire? HW: Read/Study Dates 19B In class: Quiz 2.1; Rome video Persia Webquest activity; Lecture What is an empire
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Power to the People: The Effects of the French Revolution on European Politics The French Revolution was an event that altered the course of politics in Europe forever. From 1789 to 1799‚ the French people battled for their rights and freedom against the French government and monarchy. A few decades before‚ the Americans successfully declared their secession from Britain after years of discontent. France played a big part in this revolution by aiding the American colonists to gain their independence
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but‚ in general‚ they are useful for the society and help it to become a better one. In this work I am going to explain how‚ the European world changed dramatically as a result of a series of stresses in the late 13th to the mid 15th centuries and how such events as Black Plague‚ the One Hundred Year’s War and the collapse of Papal Power influenced the Medieval European society. The transformation of the Medieval society was long and painful process‚ which lasted approximately 150 years. The development
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