THE SHAPE OF EARLY AMERICA A. Early American Settlers • Came from the British Isles • Puritans who settled in Massachusetts • Wealthy Royalist cavaliers and their indentured servants migrated to Virginia • Quakers migrated to the Delaware Valley colonies of West Jersey‚ Pennsylvania‚ and Delaware B. British folkways brought to the New World • People in the South prefer fried foods- same as southern and western England • People in the hollows of Appalachia who manufactured “moonshine” are
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Tiffany Baker October 22‚ 2011 Period 0 Chapter 9 Outline The Confederation and the Constitution I. The Pursuit of Equality A. Fight of separation of church and state with the Congregational Church‚ and the Anglican Church. 1. The Anglican Church struggled for divorce between religion and government. 2. Thomas Jefferson and his co-reformers won a complete victory with the passage of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. B.
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societies emerged in - S/Cent. America and Mexico • Peru- Inca Empire (Cuzco and Machu Picchu)(over 6 million people) o Created a complex Political System o Network of Paved Roads that brought tribes together(under single rule) o No system of writing or paper • Yucatan Peninsula- Mayas (Mayapan) o Written Language o Numerical System like Arabic o Accurate Calendar o Advanced Agriculture • Mayans succeeded by Aztecs- Cent. And S Mexico (Tenochtitlan) o once nomadic warrior tribe from north o Elaborate
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was right at the time because there was no american literature. All of the books had to be imported from England or other european countries. This does not mean Americans had not been writing‚ they just did not write novels. They wrote political papers and pamphlets just not novels. American literature received got a kickstart from the surge of nationalism following the war of 1812. Washington Irving was the first American writer to get national recognition but he followed themes of old world
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CHAPTER 1 Theme: The first discoverers of America‚ the ancestors of the American Indians‚ were small bands of hunters who crossed a temporary land bridge from Siberia and spread across both North and South America. They evolved a great variety of cultures‚ which ranged from the sophisticated urban civilizations in Mexico and Central and South America to the largely semi nomadic societies of North America. Applying evidence- * Paleo Indians-utilized land bridge as a important hunting tool(nomadic)
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AP U.S. History Multiple Choice Worksheet – Chapter 10 Mr. Jones Make the best selection. 1. When the new government was launched in 1789‚ a) the nation’s population was doubling about every twenty-five years. b) Most people lived in the fast-growing cities c) Most people lived west of the Allegheny Mountains d) New York was the largest city in the nation e) Great Britain refused to establish diplomatic relations with the United States 2. Regarding central authority‚ early Americans
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APUSH Unit 7 Study Terms Nat Turner: -Preacher and prophet who believed God had given him a message to rebel; August 22 1831 group of slaves in Southampton County‚ Virginia started a rebellion with Turner as the leader; went from plantation to plantation‚ after 48 hours white forces stopped the rebellion‚ executed many‚ Turner was last to be captured; So what? -Killed over sixty whites -Last slave rebellion of this kind during pre-Civil War period (armed resistence hadn’t ended) William
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AP Exam Vocab • Cahokia – One of the largest urban centers created by Mississippian people‚ containing 30‚000 residents in 1250. • Transoceanic migrations- a population migration across oceans • Beringia- a subcontinent bridging Asia and North America‚ named after the Bering Straits. • Athapascan- A people that began to settle the forests in the northwestern area of North America around 5000 B.C.E. • Clovis tradition-A powerful new and sophisticated style of tool making‚
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Tamara Singh APUSH 1993 DBQ Essay The 1700 hundreds was a time for people’s imaginations able to soar free in their heads and see the “New World” for all its infinite possibilities. There were many reasons for people to look for refuge or wealth in the newly discovered world. Some wanted to escape from harsh laws and strict religions of the European government‚ and others went for glory and money. When the new colonies like Jamestown was formed‚ so was two new societies. Both areas were
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Chapter eight asserts that the birth of the Revolutionary War occurred from 1763 to 1775 because of political values in the colonies‚ British legislation‚ and violent conflicts between the colonies and Britain. After the Seven Years War‚ even though they were the most powerful force in North America‚ Britain was heavily in debt and needed a way to pay for the war they had just fought and won. At the same time‚ the American colonies were enjoying their continent without any French involvement and
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