APUSH Chapter 12 Antebellum Culture and Reform Hudson River School – The first great school of American painters‚ based in New York. The painters portrayed that America’s “wild nature” made them superior to Europe. Cooper and the American Wilderness – James Fenimore Cooper was the first great American novelist (The Last of the Mohicans‚ The Deerslayer) His novels “The Leatherstocking Tales” were a celebration of the American spirit and landscape Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry D. Thoreau – rejected
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Republicanism – Political theory of representative government‚ based on the principle of popular sovereignty‚ with a strong emphasis on liberty and civic virtue. Influential in eighteenth-century American political thought‚ it stood as an alternative to monarchical rule. Radical Whigs- Eighteenth-century British political commentators who agitated against political corruption and emphasized the threat to liberty posed by arbitrary power. Their writings shaped American political thought and made
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Vincent Vo Period 6 Buers APUSH DBQ 1: Labor Unions Three decades following the Civil War‚ America was a conflicted time of both poverty and prosperity. While there were indeed a number of powerful men‚ such as Rockefeller and Carnegie‚ the majority of the population consisted of the working class. Entire families worked for exhaustingly long hours in dangerous and unsanitary conditions. Eventually‚ people of the working class started to advertise reforms and form unions. The movement towards organized
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The word “Reconstruction” is recognized in an American historical context as the reorganization and reestablishment of the seceded states after the civil war. However‚ this extend of time suffered a fluctuation of freedoms for African Americans in the southern region of the country. While slavery did not exist anymore‚ reconstruction ended up being fruitful just temporarily‚ and was basically nullified by the regressive pattern that took after the finish of Reconstruction in 1877. On this piece
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APUSH STUDY GUIDE Bold → add more info CHAPTER 1 Juan Ponce de Leon- looked for fountain of youth in Florida. Died by an Indian Arrow Francisco Coronado- Looked for "golden cities" which were actually pueblos. Went to Arizona and New Mexico. Found the Grand Canyon and large "herds" of buffalo John Cabot- Explored northeastern America (1497-1498). English sent him known as Giovanni Caboto (Not entirely sure if he was English himself) Treaty of Tordesillas- Spain celebrated Columbus’s arrival
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The Elizabethan Age is the time period associated with the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603) and is often considered to be a golden age in English history. It was an age considered to be the height of the English Renaissance‚ and saw the full flowering of English literature and English poetry. In Elizabethan theater‚ William Shakespeare‚ among others‚ composed and staged plays in a variety of settings that broke away from England’s past style of plays. It was an age of expansion and exploration
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Nixon’s Détente with Beijing (Peking) and Moscow 1. Nixon hoped to enlist the aid of the Soviet Union and China in pressuring North Vietnam into peace. • Nixon visited communist China in February 1972 • Then he went to Moscow in May and ushered an era of détente or relaxed tension with the two communist powers 2. The U.S. band the USSR started to slow the armistice and
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A Rose for Emily: Antebellum South vs. Modern South William Faulkner wrote‚ "A Rose for Emily." In the gothic‚ short story he contrasted the lives of the people of a small Southern town during the late 1800’s‚ and he compared their ability and inability to change with the time. The old or "Antebellum South" was represented by the characters Miss Emily‚ Colonel Sartoris‚ the Board of Aldermen‚ and the Negro servant. The new or "Modern South" was expressed through the words of the unnamed narrator
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if changes were good or bad rather than drastic. 3. Southern “secession” or “seceded” not “succession” or “succeeded”!!!!! 4. Lack of enough specific outside information to support argument 5. Using historical narrative (telling the story of the era) instead of creating an argument 6. Weak topic sentences – should either introduce social or constitutional change 7. Thesis statements that don’t clearly answer question or don’t take a strong stand – i.e. “sort of a revolution” “kind of a revolution”
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Change became so imperative that by 1910‚ the word progressive began to summarize the American movement‚ eventually grouping the century into the century of progress or the Progressive Era. Though women and industrial workers fighting for their rights
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