Here are the key dates‚ terms and essay questions for all material that will be covered on test 1. The material is divided by the Lecture Topics. The Lecture Topics correlate to the titles on the Syllabus. I reserve the right to amend these study guides when necessary. Please contact me with any questions. --Professor Hagy The Pre-Columbian World 1492 & Beyond: Conquest Chronology 1300s: rise of the Aztec 1469: Isabela & Ferdinand marry‚ creating a united Spain 1481: Portuguese
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Massachusetts. The mounting tension in Massachusetts exploded in Apr.‚ 1775‚ when General Gage decided to make a show of force. Warned by Paul Revere and William Dawes‚ the Massachusetts militia engaged the British force at Lexington and Concord (see Lexington and Concord‚ battles of). Patriot militia from other colonies hurried to Massachusetts‚ where‚ after the battle of Bunker Hill (June 17‚ 1775)‚ George Washington took command of the patriot forces. The British remained in Boston until Mar. 17‚
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Parliament’s authority. These men brought information to British higher ups such as a rumored stockpile of cannons and ammunition in Concord. Having a random site of a vast amount of weaponry was clearly seen‚ by us Loyalists‚ as a danger to the colonies. General Thomas Gage‚ the appointed governor of Massachusetts who placed Boston under martial law‚ led the King’s troops to Concord. With no other intention then to confiscate the hazardous stockpile of arms in the possession of the American colonists and
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It started on July 21‚ 1861 at Manassas‚ Virginia. The day Confederates decided to go North and get the Union. What the Confederates didn’t know was the territory which helps benefit the Union. Soon many northern citizens rode out to see the battle had to quickly leave and head back to the capital Washington. The Union troops started to panic after they heard the Confederates were coming. They left later in the day and were 25 miles away from Washington D.C. . My son wrote “We arrived by railroads
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REACTION PAPER “A ROSE FOR EMILY” BY FAULKNER This story is a kind of sad and sorrow‚ Emily was a unhappy girl who lost her father and later she discovered that her fiancé was homosexual‚ this was too much for her and she decide to kill her boyfriend and live with the dead body for 40 years until she died. Here we can see that she doesn’t’ live in real life‚ she was in a fantasy‚ her pain turn her in a fantasy and she create a barrier; she was totally outside of reality‚ analyzing
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The colonists would find out that the goals they wanted to obtain would take more than determination and will. They soon realized they needed a leader and a militia soon after the first battle of the war‚ Lexington and Concord‚ took place (Pg.127). British marched to Concord to seize gunpowder and to detain Hancock and Adams. This failed miserably. Both Adams and Hancock escaped and not much gunpowder was seized. The American’s had
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A Midnight Ride Paul Revere was an American Patriot who lived in the 18th and 19th century. He is the subject of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “A Midnight Ride” one of the most famous American poems. He was known as a son of liberty and was a key person in America’s fight for liberty. Revere was a messenger‚ a silversmith‚ a dentist‚ even a writer‚ but through all of his professions‚ duties and responsibilities Paul Revere remained loyal‚ brave and committed to his country
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Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson has had many accomplishments in his life. To start out he helped his brother William at a school for young women‚ which was established in their mother’s house. His first wife’s name was Ellen Louisa Tucker. They met in Concord‚ New Hampshire on Christmas day in 1827. Ellen married Emerson when she was 18 years old. (Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ Biography.com) Emerson was invited to serve as a junior pastor and was called on January 11‚ 1829. Ralph Waldo Emerson was chaplain to
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disliked Washington and usually refused to live there‚ even after Pierce became an U.S. Senator in 1837. By 1841‚ Pierce and his wife had had enough of Washington‚ and he resigned from the Senate‚ moving his family back to New Hampshire. Returning to Concord early in 1848‚ Pierce continued his law practice and gave strong support to the Compromise of 1850. In June 1852 the Democratic national nominating convention‚ unable to choose among Stephen A. Douglas‚ James Buchanan‚ Lewis Cass‚ and William Marcy
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The American Revolution began over the Navigation Act which was supposed to regulate the colonial trade. The purpose of was to encourage British shipping and allow Great Britain to retrieve monopoly of the Britain colonial trade and to benefit the British merchants. The cause of the American Revolution is the Navigation Act. The Navigation Act is a series of laws that did not allow foreign ships to trade between Britain and its colonies. This started in 1651 and lasted over 200 years. They
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