the United States of America marginalizes the Ojibwa culture. The community way of life is damaged. Nanapush alludes about the destructions “I heard the groan and crack‚ felt the ground tremble as each tree slammed earth. I weakened into an old man as one oak went down‚ another and another was lost” (Erdrich 2004: 9). Thus the members of the Ojibwa tribe are divided against one another. People become greedy. They are against themselves. Kashpaw family becomes greedy. Paying taxes becomes their main
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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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APUSH Chapters 1-5 Study Guide Columbus’/Spanish treatment of the native Americans [book & our documents] Early settlements in North America - prior to Columbus [generalization of what they were like] Influence of horses on Native Americans Chesapeake & the Lower South: Early settlement conditions – disease ridden small settlements originally established for the discovery of gold and profit. Not intended to become long term and inhabited by mainly young single men with few women or families
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Introduction: The book I read was Lewis and Clark Among the Indians: By James P. Rhonda. It included a lot of other information that helped me understand Lewis and Clarks view towards the Indians. It introduced me to a new name of the Lewis and Clark Expedition‚ the Corps of Discovery. This book was written in the 3rd person as a narrative. It was written for the purpose of informing the reader of the Corps of Discovery and its major components‚ also to help the reader understand the relationships
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“The 1950’s were an era of conformity and complacency.” Give reasons for either agreeing or disagreeing with this statement. The statement‚ “The 1950’s were an era of conformity and complacency”‚ is untrue to a certain extent. Though it is true that the post WWII America has the highest standard of living that no other countries can match‚ the 1950s‚ backed by the Second Red Scare‚ really had been a time period of tension and anti-communism. The 1950s‚ inspired by the Soviet nuclear spying
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From 1875 to 1900 the United States was experiencing the free enterprise associated with the Gilded Age. This was the day of big business’s and “Captains’ of Industry.” Due to almost no government regulation‚ corruption was a recurring problem that Labor Unions tried to tackle. Despite good intentions‚ Labor unions were mostly unsuccessful in improving the position of workers during this time period because of their inability to organize successfully‚ the power of the employer‚ and the negative public
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James McManus Mr. Colameco AP United States History 7 January 2013 Example Document Based Question Nearly all of the reasons for agrarian discontent in the late 19th century stem from three areas: land‚ transportation‚ and money. The farmers were fighting the perceived threats posed by monopolies and trusts‚ railroads‚ and the demonetization of silver. The American farmer during this period already had his fair share of problems which‚ compared to the success of the industrialized businessmen
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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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