Ch. 4 -Culture in Chesapeake: life is short due to diseases. Men outnumber women 6-1. There are weak marital ties due to premarital pregnancies (A 3rd of brides were pregnant b4 wedding). There was a pop. increase w/native-born ppl who developed immunities (Vir. most populous colony in 18th c) -Tobacco in Chesapeake: It was good 4 tobacco cultivation. By 1700 Chesapeake exported 10 mill lbs of it a yr. The tobacco exhausted land& led to western expansion which agitated the Indians. Also‚ it led
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1. Who “discovered” America? Christopher Columbus. Native Americans were already there. 1492. Dutch were the technical discoverers. NA (Russians) came on Bering Strait.ICE AGE. 2. How did the Spanish treat the Native Americans? Results of the European contact with the Natives? Relationship with the Iroquois Confederacy? ∙ Treated badly. As less than people. Massacred and enslaved. ∙ Result of European contact with the Natives? Death to many natives. Pizarro crushed incas. (befriended them and took all their gold
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Ever since declaring its independence from Britain‚ America has developed on the foundation of compromise. Upon the drafting of the Constitution‚ the Founding Fathers were succumbed to compromise in order to incorporate the needs of the different parts of the nation. During the early eighteenth century‚ Americans achieved reconciliation of political disputes‚ predominately between the North and the South‚ through compromise. By 1860 this was no longer feasible and the nation was faced with disheartening
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1. George Creel: The Committee on Public Information was created to rally public support of war. It was headed by George Creel. His job was to sell America on the war and sell the world on Wilsonian war aims. The Creel organization employed thousands of workers around the world to spread war propaganda. The entire nation was as a result swept into war fever. 2. Eugene V. Debs: The Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918 reflected fears about Germans and antiwar Americans. Kingpin
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Evaluate the extent to which religious toleration in the British North American colonies maintained continuity as well as fostered changed from 1607-1700. Prior to the founding of the Massachusetts Bay colony in 1630 religion had not played a large part in the politics and development of the British North American colonies. The first settlers who established Jamestown in 1607 were looking for riches similar to those found by the Spanish in Central America. After finding no treasure and on the brink
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The presidencies of both Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson featured significant foreign policies. Roosevelt favored imperialism and increasing American influence and prestige‚ willing to use force when other means failed; many of his projects‚ such as the Panama Canal‚ succeeded. Wilson was an idealist‚ eager to promote democracy and world peace‚ and unwilling to use force; many of his attempts to encourage democracy and peace‚ such as the League of Nations‚ backfired. While the primary aim of
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1. Describe the conditions of the western "borderlands" of the 1830s as well as the factors attracting American settlers. The U.S expansionists were directing their ambitions to the North‚ West‚ and Southwest‚ but the conflicts between the U.S. and British North America came about over the border between them. In 1839‚ Canadian lumberjacks and the Maine militia began fighting over the boundary between Maine and New Brunswick. The fighting ended in the Webster-Ashburton Treaty‚ which gave over half
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1: Reverend Josiah Strong- looked overseas to convert people. "Our country: its possible future and its present crisis" 2: Theodore Roosevelt- darwinist‚ national parks 3: Henry Cabot Lodge- used darwinism to prove that the world belonged to the strongest nation (america) 4: Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan- "Influence of sea power upon history" stated that control of seas leads to world dominance‚ stimulated the naval race among nations‚ enhanced american navy. 5: James G. Blaine- secretary of
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1.Early American civilization - Incas in Peru‚ Mayans in Central America‚ and Aztecs in Mexico shapped sophisticated civilizations. Cultivation of Maize fed large pops. Didn’t have oxen‚ horses‚ tech. (wheel). Strikingly accuate astronomical observations. Human sacrifices. 2. Cultivation of Maize - Maize‚ beans and squash were the "three-sister" farming‚ with beans growing on the trellis of cornstalks‚ and squash covering the planting mounds to retain moisture in the soil. Produced high populations
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1. The origin of progressivism was the Greenback Labor Party of the 1870’s and the Populist Pary of the 1890’s. Progressive reformers included militarists such as Theodore Roosevelt‚ who thrilled to the stenuous life‚ as well as pacifists such as Jane Addams‚ whose loftiest goals included the abolition of war. The two chief goals of progressivism are to use the state to curb monopoly power and to improve the common person’s conditions of life and labor. Overall‚ the goals of progressives were continuing
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