APUSH Ch 11 Vocab Cotton Slavery and the Old South King Cotton = cotton exports would make the South economically prosperous and make New England dependent on them to support the Northern textile industry Deep South = lower South nicknamed the “Cotton Kingdom” for its recently settled areas that were dominated by cotton production De Bow’s Review = journal containing everything from agricultural reports‚ statistical data‚ and economic analysis to literature‚ political opinion‚ and commentary. The
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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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U.S. History Europe England: Economics – enclosure o Economy began to revive o Enclosure: property owners fence off land for grazing Squatters kicked off Hiof land => landless population o Colonies = solution for landless peoples Merchant capitalism o Merchants in look for investment opportunities Development of joint-‐stock companies Nationalism o Spain = Britain’s greatest rival o Defeat of Spanish
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APUSH Summer Assignment Chapter 1 1. Mayans Same Aztecs Yucatan Peninsula | Irrigation | Central Mexico | Tikal | Temples | Tenochitlan | Approx. 300AD-800AD | Hieroglyphics writing style | Approx. 1325AD | 20‚000 | Hierarchy | 200‚000 people | Mainly farmers | The use of religious rituals | Human sacrifice | Large religious centers | Declined due to drought around 800 BCE | Used Trade routes | 2. Tribe | Political Structure | Economy | Location |
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Essay #2 Origins of Anti-slavery and Pro-slaver The origins of the anti-slavery and pro-slavery arguments during the antebellum period and even ongoing into the Age of Jackson had to do with religious‚ moral and economical conflicts and differences in the North and South of the United States. Many of which were caused by new inventions that lead to industrialization‚ the new constitution that created new parties and strengthened the Nationalist. In the anti-slavery argument early abolitionists
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Chapter 2 Notes: Indian & European Relations in the 1600s Spain in North America 1560s: Spanish give up search for Indian gold. Focus on defending their empire from English (who were plundering treasure ships and Caribbean ports) and French Protestants (who began to settle in Florida though the Spanish had already claimed the land). Spanish establish fort at St. Augustine‚ Florida (1565) to protect route of the treasure fleet. They also massacre French Protestants. Raids by Native Americans
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1987 DBQ The misinterpretation and different views of what was stated in the Constitution contributed to the sectional discord‚ tension and failure of the Union. The Constitution was written almost a century before all these problems occurred‚ they could not have foreseen such issues back then. Although the Constitution was written very well for that time period‚ it does unfortunately contribute to the failing of the Union. The Constitution was written so it could be interpreted differently by
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1850s DBQ Between 1850 and 1861‚ underlying issues and events brought about discord and tension in the United States. These issues revolved around the radically different views on morality‚ from the North’s views to the South’s. The tensions stemmed from views and understandings of the Constitution’s purpose and uses being in opposition to the viewpoint of the other territory. The tensions caused by the differing beliefs were slowly built up since the American Revolution. Slavery‚ being an established
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Portuguese and Spanish Slavery Thus when Portugal and Spain established the first American colonies‚ they first introduced Africans as a labor source in the New World. Both encountered difficulties turning the native American people into a slave labor force. The Spanish were more successful as they encountered the settled agraian societies of the Andes and central Mexico. The Spanish engaged in a debate concerning the humanity of the Native Americans. The Native Americans were in the end turned into
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DBQ Essay Slavery was a growing problem. Slavery became an even more of disrespect‚ on the uproar in the Southern economy. Though efforts to securely save the union were ever existing‚ they were outweighed by the opinions brought upon by divisions among societies in the North and South‚ group reforms in the North‚ involving the North in runaway slave issues‚ the idea of nullification‚ political differences‚ and the increased population and influx of antislavery immigrants in the North‚ creating
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