George Washington was born on February 22‚ 1732. His parents were Augustine Washington (1694-1743) and his second wife‚ Mary Ball Washington (1708-89). Mary gave birth at his family’s plantation on Pope’s Creek in Westmoreland County‚ in the British colony of Virginia. After Washington’s father had passed away when he was about 11‚ it’s likely that he helped his mother manage the plantation. By the late 1760s‚ Washington had experienced firsthand the effects of rising taxes imposed on American colonists
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Study Guide 1. Truman foreign policy between 1945-1952- I-Aid to Greece and Turkey to defend against communist pressure S- Support free people resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. 2. U.S. economic expansion post-WWII- I-Savings from WWII‚ expansion defense spending‚ improved technology‚ baby boom‚ expansion of consumer society. 3. 1950’s Red Scare- I-Fear of communist spies undermining the gov’t and misdirecting foreign policy 4. American
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Elections= 1920: the Republican candidate‚ Warren Harding‚ obscure senator‚ defeated the Democratic candidate‚ Ohio Governor James Cox‚ the Socialist Party candidate‚ Eugene Debs. Republicans opposed U.S. admission to the League of Nations. Republicans received 61% of the pop vote. Calvin Coolidge completed President Harding’s term and was then elected for a second term. Boston police strike gained him popularity. 1924: Calvin Coolidge‚ Republican‚ and a Wall Street lawyer‚ John Davis‚ a Democrat
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The conflict that took place in the 1790s between the Federalists and the Antifederalists impacted American history. The Federalists‚ led by Alexander Hamilton‚ who had married into the wealthy Schuyler family‚ represented the urban mercantile interests of the seaports; the Antifederalists‚ led by Thomas Jefferson‚ spoke for the rural and southern interests. The debate between the two concerned the power of the central government versus that of the states‚ with the Federalists favoring the former
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I. Seeing Red I. The “Red Scare” of 1919-20 resulted in Attorney General. Mitchell Palmer using a series of raids to round up and arrest about 6‚000 suspected Communists. A. The Red Scare severely cut back free speech for a period‚ since the hysteria caused many people to want to eliminate any Communists and their ideas. 1. Some states made it illegal to merely advocate the violent overthrow of government for social change. 2. In this time period‚ anti-foreignism
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Chapter 11.2 Notes 1. The Beginning of Settlement Guiding Question: What encouraged settlers to move west to the Great Plains? * The Great Plains is a vast region of prairie roughly was of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains. * Settlers faced many challenges with the weather * In this dry grassland‚ trees naturally grew only by the rivers and streams. * To get water they often had to drill wells more than 100 feet deep * Eventually this land turned into
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Revolution fundamentally change American society? In your answer be sure to address the political‚ social‚ and economic effects of the Revolution in the period from 1775 to 1800. Notes from Mr. Williams: This essay was g iven to 2 nd period APUSH on their first in - class essay. Included were 10 documents (if interested in seeing them‚ please come into class). The DBQ writer needed to take ideas and topics from the documents‚ and ADD significant outside fact and analysis. Notice that this
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Kevin Powroznik APUSH RRQs Chapter 3 4. How did King Philip’s war‚ Bacon Rebellion‚ and the Salem witch trials illustrate a widespread crisis in British North American in the late seventeenth century? Towards the end of the seventeenth century‚ series of crises rocked the European colonies of North America. Both Social and political issues and crisis’s emerged such as King Philip’s war‚ Bacon Rebellion‚ and the Salem witch trails. King Philip’s war was one of the bloodiest and bitter wars
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Analysis of a Commercial Bleach Lab Guidelines Name‚ Exp. Name‚ Number‚ Date (we did lab)‚ Partner(s) Purpose Compound Names‚ Formulas‚ and Molar Masses (5 used – no formula or molar mass for starch) Reactions (use the four listed on the front page of the lab) Procedure/Observations Include initial observations and final observations/odors‚ masses of KI… Results (Data Table) Make a table that has your data of KI masses‚ and the three volumes (from the three trials) needed to titrate the
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Ch. 7 (pp. 249-263) The War of 1812 William Henry Harrison General of US army Thought to attack Lake Erie Captain Oliver Perry and the Battle of Lake Erie Constructed fleet of vessels for war Destroyed british squadron at Put-In-Bay and won Brits pulled back from Detroit Harrison defeated Brit and Indian force in Battle of Thames Treaty of Ghent Britain’s goal- peace in Europe‚ not any war demanded territorial concessions from US- but gave way because they never controlled Great
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