Shaping of North America - Pangea Split North America formed - “America’s Mountains” = Rockies‚ Sierra Nevada‚ Cascades‚ Coast Ranges Peopling the Americas - 35‚000 years ago = Ice Age Glaciers that connected Eurasia with N. America (present day Bering Sea) Nomadic Asian hunters (immigrant ancestors of the Natives) Trekked across the Bering isthmus for 250 centuries Reached far tip of S. America (15‚000 miles from Siberia) By the time Europeans arrived in 1492‚ 54 million people inhabited
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Chapter 7 APUSH the Jeffersonian Era I. The rise of cultural nationalism i. Religion began to adjust to the spread of Enlightenment rationalism. a. Patterns of education a. All male citizens should receive free education. b. Endorsed the principle of public education‚ but did not create a working system of free schools even up to 1815. c. 1815- 30 private secondary schools in MA‚ 37 in NY‚ etc. d. Female illiteracy rate was 50%. e. Judith Sargent –
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Kyle Whisman Government – B1 2/15/15 DBQ The definition of democracy is “a form of government where the supreme power is vested within the people and exercised by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.” The main principles of democracy include majority rule with minority rights‚ competing political parties‚ individual liberty‚ and free elections. These ideals have been the foundation of American democracy since the Declaration of Independence. However‚ other democracies value
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Ariana Biagioni DBQ: Topic A: The Ancient Near East November 24‚ 2013 Professor Goldman During the time of Dynasty 18 in Egypt‚ many religious‚ economic‚ and social connections were created amongst the various regions in the Near East. In these regions‚ new groups of people‚ religions‚ and empires were formed. The Near East helped surface civilization. It established centralized governments‚ law codes‚ and writing systems. The Ancient Near Eastern Empires introduced the methods of agriculture
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Amber Lewis APUSH and AP Language Assignment 2nd period One huge change that has been brought on due to the social and political changes in our country is the overall interpretation of our coalitions‚ to our nation and ourselves. Because of the increase of nationalism‚ we‚ Americans‚ have changed our social boundaries and opened more opportunities for equality in the United States. As changes were beginning to happen‚ America grew troubled as it attempted to keep up with its political amendments and growing economy
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1. 601. Federalists opposed the acquisition of Canada because A) there were too many French there. B) Canadian business would prove too competitive. C) it was too agrarian and would give more votes to the Democratic-Republicans. D) they believed that the Canadians could never become Americanized. E) too many Indians lived there. C 2. 602. During the War of 1812‚ the New England states A) supported the United States’ war effort. B) lent more money and sent more food to the British army than
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Brandon Nieves 12/4/14 Ms. Pearson APUSH The War of 1812 Throughout the course of history‚ the United States and Great Britain always seem to be bumping heads with each other constantly. They can never settle on the same page as they seem to have their differences on each other’s point of view. It all started with the American Revolution when the colonists demanded independence from Great Britain and now the United States find themselves going against Great Britain once again. This is known as
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Analyze the responses to TWO of the following to Secretary of State John Hay’s view that the Spanish American War was “a splendid little war”; William Jennings Bryan‚ Theodore Roosevelt‚ Alfred Thayer Mahan‚ Emilio Aguinaldo When Secretary of State John Hay stated that the Spanish American War was a “splendid little war”‚ he received mixed responses from people such as William Jennings Bryan‚ Theodore Roosevelt‚ Alfred Thayer Mahan‚ and Emilio Aguinaldo. Some people of the Philippines‚ especially
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During the 1930s‚ unemployment and insecurity had pushed up the suicide rate and decreased the marriage rate. The population growth was also declining as couples had economic troubles. In the initial postwar years‚ the economy struggled; prices elevated 33% from 1946-1947 after the wartime price controls were removed. An epidemic of strikes swept over the country in 1946. In 1947‚ the Republican Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act over President Truman’s veto. It outlawed the "closed" (all-union)
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In New England‚ population increases gradually outstripped the availability of land. As the freehold ideal came under greater pressure‚ New Englanders responded in a variety of traditional and creative ways. Farm Families: Women’s Place Men played the dominant role in both politics and domestic matters in New England society. Women were subordinate to their husbands and had few rights under law. Daughters typically had a lesser position than sons. A woman’s place was in the home‚ serving as
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