The Gilded Age * During the Gilded Age‚ American businesses were transformed: * Massive corporations replaced small‚ family businesses * New technology‚ transportation‚ marketing‚ labor relations‚ & efficient mass-production * By 1900‚ the U.S. was the most industrialized country in the world * 19th-century inventors led to an “Age of Invention”: * Cyrus Field’s telegraph cable * Business typewriters‚ cash registers‚ adding machines * High-speed textile
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Person/Place/Thing | Who/What | When/Where | Significant Individuals | So What:Significance | Chinese Exclusionary Act | President Chester A. Arthur signed the act banning Chinese immigrants from working for 10 years | May 6th‚ 1882 | President Chester A. Arthur | The United States was supposed to offer freedom‚ but instead they passed the first law restricting immigration into the United States. | Knights of Labor | A secret workingmen’s organization formed in 1860 to defend the interests
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2002 AP DBQ In the years following the War of 1812‚ the “Era of Good Feelings” evolved between the years 1815 and 1825. In the first half of this period‚ there was a strong sense of nationalism throughout the United States. However‚ political changes and economic differences between the states warped this nationalism into the sectionalism that divided the country into north‚ south and west regions. Celebrations of unity within the United States soon turned into disagreements concerning representation
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What factors caused America to turn its attention to the world beyond her borders? In the final decades of the nineteenth century‚ America grew hungry for empire and expansion‚ and became incredibly aggressive in its foreign policy Aggressive expansionism became popular in America thanks to the desire to tap overseas markets‚ the yellow press of Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst‚ the racist view that Anglo-Saxons ought to dominate the "backwards peoples" (a view made popular by Reverend
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The 1960’s and 70’s were filled with turbulent changes. The US was still reeling from containment and its domino policy‚ leading it to believe that it had the right to exercise influence in foreign affair. One foreign affair was known as Vietnam. The Vietnam War was the longest war in the nation’s history. This war‚ from both abroad and at home‚ drastically changed the society of America‚ socially‚ economically‚ and politically. It caused for much anti-war sentiment and fueled the counter culture
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The years 1607 and 1629 saw the start of two English colonies in the New World-first Jamestown and then the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Both were mainly populated by people of English origin‚ and yet the differences between the two colonies were significant and evident. As they evolved‚ the two colonies developed contrasting economies‚ societies‚ and institutions. These major differences can be traced to the varying motives for colorizations‚ the types of settlers‚ the geography and climate of the
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Colonial Period to 1750 Presidents: None Foreign Policies and Key Events: * In 1629 a group of non-Separatist Puritans fearing for the faith and the future‚ secured a royal charter to form the Massachusetts Bay Company * During the Great Migration of the 1630s‚ about 75‚000 refugees left England; not all of them were Puritans and only about 14‚000 came to Massachusetts—many were attracted to the warm and fertile West Indies‚ especially the sugar-rich island of Barbados. Important Documents:
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AP Prompt for Scarlet Letter Many authors use contrasting places to represent different forces or ideas. This opposition helps enhance the works meaning and themes. In the Scarlet Letter by Nathanial Hawthorne the use of contrasting places such as the forest and the scaffold scenes to develop the characteristics of sin. The forest represents the freedom of sin‚ the scaffold represents the punishment of sin‚ and both locations are used to acknowledge the presence of sin. The citizens use the scaffold
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In the early 1600s‚ Europeans began to seek a faster route to Asia‚ looking for goods and spices. Ultimately‚ this led to establishing the first two colonies‚ Jamestown in 1607 and Massachusetts in 1621. That is where the similarities end with these colonies. The regions of the two colonies evolved into two completely different societies. There are several reasons why differences in development occurred between the Chesapeake and New England regions. Differences can be seen socially‚ economically
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DBQ: Articles of Confederation The Articles of Confederation are considered to have created a highly controversial period in American history. Ironically‚ these articles also provided a steady form of government for many years after the revolutionary war. For many economic‚ political‚ and social reasons the Articles of Confederation were an ineffective form of government for the United States. Economically‚ the United States was struggling to stay above water. After the war inflation was
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