QUESTIONS TO ANSWER (potential DBQ’s!): How would other schools of historiography view the West? How accurate is Turner’s thesis? What is your historiographical view of the West’s importance in American History? Five Important Groups 1. Miners 2. Railroads 3. Ranchers 4. Farmers 5. Native Americans (Plain Indians) Consider what brought them to the West‚ what brought about the conflicts and why‚ and how those conflicts got resolved 1) Miners California Gold Rush 1849 lead to an influx
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Chapter 1 Business Ethics- principles‚ values‚ and standards that guide behavior in the world of business Principles- specific pervasive boundaries for behavior that are universal and absolute (freedom‚ speech‚ equal rights) –the basis for rules Values- used to develop norms that are socially enforced (integrity‚ trust‚ accountability) Development of business ethics Before 1960’s: -Questioning capitalism -“living wage” income -New Deal-blaming business for economic woes -Individual
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Chapter 4 Growth and Crisis in Colonial Society 1720-1765 Freehold Society in New England Puritans created a yeomen society of independent farm families who owned their land as freeholders- without feudal dues or leases by 1750‚ rapidly increasing population outstripped the supply of easily farmed land‚ challenging the freehold ideal. A. Farm Families: Women’s Place Men were head of the household no time for anything. They did many labors by 1750‚ family sizes decreased due
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continent. 2.The theory of “Pangaea” exists suggesting that the continents were once nestled together into one mega-continent. The continents then spread out as drifting islands. 3.Geologic forces of continental plates created the Appalachian and Rocky Mountains. 4.The Great Ice Age thrust down over North America and scoured the present day American Midwest. 2.Peopling the Americas 1.The “Land Bridge” theory… 1.As the Great Ice Age diminished‚ so did the glaciers over North America. 2.The theory
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close popular vote but by the comfortable margin of 170 to 124 votes (for all the Whigs combined) in the Electoral College N. Big Woes for the “Little Magician” 1. Martin Van Buren‚ eighth president‚ was the first to be born under the American flag 2. An accomplished strategist and spoils man—the “wizard of Albany”—he was also a statesman of wide experience in both legislative and administrative life 3. From the outset the new president labored under sever handicaps a. As a machine-made candidate
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Chapter 30: Conservative Resurgence‚ Economic Woes‚ Foreign Challenges ‘74-89 (I thought we were done reading! ) Personal Pursuits and Diversions: Yuppies (young urban professionals) were all about fitness/consumerism: labeled the “Me Generation” for selfishness Jaws‚ Rocky‚ Star Wars‚ disco‚ Disney World‚ Super Bowl‚ cable TV‚ punk rock (SEX PISTOLS!) Stuff like Springsteen’s “Darkness at the Edge of Town”‚ movies Nashville and Chinatown showed problems/corruption Changing Gender Roles
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Chapter 4: The Bonds of Empire‚ 1660-1750 A. Rebellion and War‚ 1660-1713 The Restoration (1660) did not resolve England’s political conflicts within colonies. a. Royal Centralization‚ 1660-1688 1. Restoration monarchs had little use for representative government. Proprietor of New York (future James II) forbade the NY assembly (lower legislative chamber) to meet. 2. Massachusetts persisted in self-government‚ insisting voting rights on property ownership rather than church membership. In 1661
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Hector R Castillo 9/30/2014 Chapter 2 Assignment 1: Homework Short Answer 1. What does a professional programmer usually do first to gain an understanding of a problem? A professional programmer gains this understanding by working directly with the customer. 2. What is pseudocode? The word pseudo means fake‚ so pseudocode is fake code. 3. Computer programs typically perform what three steps? 1 input is received. 2 Some process is performed on the input. 3 Output is produced 4. What
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STUDY GUIDE: Chaps. 2 GEOL 111G-Survey of Geology At the end of each chapter are Review Questions and Key Terms. To study for the final‚ be sure to know the answers (or where to find the answers) for the given review question numbers and know the definitions of the key terms indicated. The Key Terms have page numbers for reference in the textbook. CHAPTER 2 Review Questions: #’s are based upon the 10th edition. These may be different in older or newer editions. 2. What was the first line of
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APUSH Chapter 11 Key Terms “revolution of 1800”: The transfer of power from Federalists to Democratic Republicans. The transfer was so peaceful and it was going to back to the spirit of the revolution of 1776. By restoring original American ideas. 2. Thomas Jefferson: 3. Midnight judges: Judges that came to Adam’s right before he his term was over. So they were all to sign the federalist papers. Which were all later revoked by the new congress under Jefferson. 4. John Marshall: Chief
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