Under the Articles of Confederation‚ the government was weak and states were like independent countries. So to try and fix these problems The United States Constitution was founded. It established America’s national government and guaranteed certain basic rights for its citizens. However‚ it wasn’t working as planned so it had to be ratified. After the adoption of the Constitution George Washington and Thomas Jefferson helped to establish a stable government. They did this by creating a separation
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Chapter 15 Vocabulary Deism- the liberal religious philosophy of the late 1800s that believed in a Supreme Being who had created a knowable universe and endowed human beings with a capacity for moral behavior. Unitarians- the spin-off of Puritanism of the early 1800s that held that God only existed in one person‚ not the Trinity. Second Great Awakening- the movement that arose in the early 1800s in reaction to the growing liberalism in religion. Charles Grandison Finney- the greatest of the
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Witchcraft DBQ (Many of the people who were persecuted as witches from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries were those of a seemingly inferior mindset‚ those who are blamed for problems in the community and those who were social outcasts.) This time period occurred throughout the Protestant‚ Catholic and Scientific revolutions. The victims of the witch trials were usually persecuted in Europe as a whole however focused on areas like South Western Europe. Witches were usually people who were
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named New Immigrants flooded into the US. Because of this Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act of 1921 which only allowed 3 percent of Europeans to come the US. Soon after‚ the Immigration Act of 1924 was passed cutting the 3 percent to 2 percent. This also ended all Japanese immigration. The US was anti-Europe and in this case they decided to isolate themselves from Europe. 2. Immigration became a big thing in the US. Europeans began flooding into the US and many were having a problem with it
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AP World History Comparative Essay Generic Rubric Overview Basic Core Historical skills and knowledge required to show competence. Expanded Core Historical skills and knowledge required to show excellence. 1. Has acceptable thesis. 1 Point (addresses comparison of the issues or themes specified) 2. Addresses all parts of the 2 Points of the question‚ though not necessarily evenly or thoroughly. (Addresses most parts of
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large amount of gold‚ planning to sell it for a profit. In order to lower the high price of gold‚ the Treasury was forced to sell gold from its reserves. "Boss" Tweed employed bribery‚ graft‚ and fraudulent elections to milk New York of as much as $200 million. (Tweed Ring) Tweed was eventually put into prison. A Carnival of Corruption In addition to members of the general public being corrupt‚ members of the federal government also participated in unethical actions. The Credit Mobilier scandal erupted
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Students in AP World History are expected to be able to write three different types of essays: a document-based question (or DBQ)‚ a change-over-time essay‚ and a comparative essay. You can probably gather from the names what you need to do in each essay – the document-based question provides you with a set of documents on which to base your essay; the change-over-time essay asks you to analyze the changes and continuities that occurred within a certain period of time; and the comparative essay asks
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similar beliefs and birthplace as Andrew Jackson 10. Admission of Texas (1845) – it was approved by the majority of both houses of congress to invite texas as the 28th state 11. Oregon Country - Northwestern territory in dispute between Britain and the US‚ subject of "Manifest Destiny" rhetoric in 1844 12. Hudson‘s Bay Company – created by britain for profitable for trading in oregon with indians of the pacific northwest 13. Oregon Trail (1840s) - Two-thousand-mile-long path along which thousands of
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DBQ Political‚ religious‚ and social factors affected the work of scientist in the sixteenth and seventeenth century in many ways. They were the reasons why natural philosophers questioned‚ studied‚ and continued to find new information in their discoveries. Developing a new scientific worldview must have required an abundance of controversy dealing with these important factors. There were people who believed that the discoveries made should not interfere with political power. *Thomas Hobbes
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DBQ Introduction: In the late 18th century‚ Europe experienced a substantial amount of urbanization due to the increase of industrialized factories‚ especially in the textile industry. Question: Describe the inventions that improved production and the European marketplace through the pre-Industrial Revolution. How did these advances affect social classes? Document 1: Letter from Leeds Cloth Merchants (a major center of wool manufacture in Yorkshire)‚ 1791. Defending the use of machines. “yet
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