Raiyat Binzaman September 8‚ 2012 APUSH Mr. Symons Outline: Chapter 1 - The Meeting of Cultures I. America Before Columbus * At first‚ early settlers of America formed small nomadic groups‚ hunting and fishing to obtain food. * Gradually‚ stable civilizations were formed‚ many of substantial sizes and variety. II. The Civilizations of the South * The greatest of these civilizations were in South America and in Mexico * These
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The Spanish and English colonies both moved to North America seeking opportunities. The difference is that the Spaniards sought gold‚ while the English colonists sought freedom‚ religiously or otherwise. Therefore‚ the Spanish settlements in the Southwest and the English colonies in New England had very different approaches to both politics and economic development. The Spaniards had ventured to the United States region of America from their previous Latin America area. They expected to find the
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Following the Glorious Revolution of 1688‚ England: -tightened imperial controls over her American empire. As a result of the Molasses Act of 1733: -many of New England’s largest merchants and distillers resorted to smuggling. The underlying cause of the Seven Years’ War in America was the: -English colonial penetration of the Ohio Valley. The turning point of the Seven Years’ War in America occurred when: -English Prime Minister William Pitt threw his nation’s full military might into the
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1. Mulatto population- a person who is born from one white parent and one black parent‚ or more broadly‚ a person of mixed black and white ancestry 2. Plantation system-The system used in the south that allowed for the rich of the south to have many slaves‚ and kept the poor the same way. A class system that did not allow for movement between classes 3. In what ways did American literature in the early nineteenth century reflect the New Democracy of the Jacksonian age? 4. The text’s
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Chapter 26: Postwar America at Home‚ 1945-1960 American Stories An Entrepreneur Franchises the American Dream Ray Kroc – ambitious salesmen that expanded McDonalds. * Understood that restaurants should operate in a place with more traffic(highways) * Understood that the franchise notion provided the key to rapid economic growth * Sensed the importance of uniformity and standardization * Understood the mood of the time – the quiet conformity of people searching for the key to American
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Chapter 18 - Renewing the Sectional Struggle‚ 1848-1854 I. The Popular Sovereignty Panacea The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the Mexican-American War‚ but it started a whole new debate about the extension of slavery‚ with Northerners rallying around the Wilmot Proviso (which proposed that the Mexican Cession lands be free soil); however‚ the Southerners shot it down. Before‚ the two national parties‚ the Democrats and the Whigs‚ had had strong support from all over the nation;
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While the causes of the Civil War can be attributed to various factors‚ the principal cause is considered to be sectionalism. Sectionalism is a term that describes a situation in which the needs or desires of individual parts become more important than the well-being of the greater whole. Such was the situation between the Northern and Southern states leading up to the Civil War. The two regions were marked by various differences‚ and the war was ultimately the result of both sides staunchly
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Chapter 1 Lady of Cofitachequi: Cofitachequi was a paramount chiefdom encountered by the Hernando de Soto Expedition in South Carolina. They encountered the Chiefdom of Cofitachequi in April of 1540‚ at the Mulberry Site‚ a large platform mound at the junction of Pine Tree Creek and the Wateree River‚ near present-day Camden. Paleo-Indians: First Americans. Nomadic hunters of game and gatherers of wild plants‚ they spread throughout North and South America‚ probably moving as bands composed of
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1. (1607) Jamestown was formed: This event was significant because it was the beginning of the English colonies in the New World. Jamestown the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. The colonization was funded the by Virginia Company. After this colony was formed‚ more people started to come over from England. Without these colonists the Virginia colony would be much different. It also helped them learn about what kind of people they needed to send over. At first they sent over gentlemen
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Up until 1750‚ Britain practiced salutary neglect toward their colonies in North America. Although a sense of mercantilism existed‚ Britain’s lack of supervision gave the colonies a chance to govern independently and to develop separately from Britain. Britain’s salutary neglect toward the colonies influenced the development of legislative assemblies‚ commerce‚ and religion by forcing the colonies to become more independent‚ therefore further developing characteristics of and desires to be a sovereign
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