--UNIT ONE & TWO: EXPLORATION AND CONQUEST--- MAJOR EXPLORERS Balboa 1511: goes to Panama and is the first explorer to see the Pacific and the Americas Ponce de Leon (Spain) 1513: getting older seeks Fountain of Youth -- goes to Florida to prevent aging Magellan wants to circumnavigate the world gets killed in the Philippines but one of his boats successfully makes it given full credit -- Spain gains worldly agriculture Cortes major Spanish figure followers were
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Chapter 39 Terms to Know * Stagflation: during the 60’s & 70’s‚ the U.S. was suffering from 5.3% inflation & 6% unemployment; refers to the unusual economic situation in which an economy is suffering both from inflation & from stagnation of its industrial growth. * Vietnamization: President Richard Nixon’s strategy for ending U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War‚ involving a gradual withdrawl of American troops & replacement of them with South Vietnamese forces. * Silent Majority: phrase
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Unit 5 Diane Arias PI: Panic of 1857: broke out due to California gold inflating the currency and over-speculation in land and railroads. Two groups opposed the idea: Eastern industrialists feared that the free land would drain its supply of workers and the South feared that the West would fill up with free-soilers who would form anti-slavery states‚ unbalancing the Senate even more. The Tariff of 1857 lowered duties to about 20%. North blamed it for causing the panic‚ because they felt they needed
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Throughout the period 1801-1817‚ the government was ruled by the Jeffersonian Republican party‚ whereas the Federalist Party began to slowly fade away from public view. The Jeffersonian Republican party‚ led by Thomas Jefferson‚ professed to favor a weak central government through the support of more states’ rights‚ "...that the states are independent... to...themselves...and united as to everything respecting foreign nations." (Document A). On the other hand‚ the Federalist Party‚ previously led
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APUSH UNIT 3 STUDY GUIDE Articles of Confederation: agreement among the 13 founding states that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution. The new Constitution provided for a much stronger national government with a chief executive (the president)‚ courts‚ and taxing powers Shay’s Rebellion: armed uprising that took place in central and western Massachusetts in 1786 and 1787. The rebellion was named after Daniel Shays
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EUROPEAN HISTORY DBQ . 1. Explain the reasons for the adoption of a new calendar in revolutionary France and analyze reactions to it in the period 1789 to 1806. Historical Background: On November 24‚ 1793‚ the National Convention adopted a revolutionary calendar to replace the Gregorian calendar (established by the Roman Catholic Church in 1582). New Year’s Day was moved from January 1 to September 22‚ the founding date of the French Republic‚ and this date in 1792 marked the beginning
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John Reda Anne D’Orazio – 20th Century U.S. History Summer Session 1 Multiple Choice Howard Zinn’s The Twentieth Century Chapter 1: 1. D 2. THERE WAS NO QUESTION TWO 3. C 4. B 5. C 6. B 7. B 8. A 9. D 10. C Chapter 2: 1. B 2. A 3. B 4. C 5. D 6. B 7. C 8. A 9. A 10. D Chapter 3: 1. A 2. A 3. C 4. A 5. A 6. D 7. C 8. A 9. A 10. D Chapter 4: 1. A 2. C 3. D 4. B 5. C 6. B 7. A 8. B 9. C 10. B Chapter 5: 1. D 2. B 3. C 4. A 5. C 6. B 7. B 8
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Key Terms 17th and Early 18th Century | | | |Roanoke |1585 – Lost Colony – Croatan – Sir Walter Raleigh | | | | |Virginia Company
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was the Ghent Treaty a Failure or a Success in the views of Americans? How Did it affect the country ? Ghent Treaty: Success or Failure? The War of 1812 was fought between the new and fragile United States against the British Empire‚ Canadian Provinces and a few Woodland Indian Tribes. The War of 1812 was an attempt by the Americans to establish their dominance in North America by conquest of the British owned Canadian Provinces. With an under supplied and undermanned army and navy the United
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New Era Through World War January 25‚ 2014 Response Paper #1 Daily Life in the US 1920-1940 The 1920s is an era remembered as the “Roaring Twenties”. The age of mass marketing had begun. With a model T in every driveway and the stock market soaring‚ the 1920s made more than a few men millionaires. The 1920s will always be remembered for its speakeasies‚ Babe Ruth‚ Amos and Andy‚ Charles Lindbergh‚ and the flapper. This must have been a very exciting time to be alive‚ without the knowledge
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