AP European History 2011 – 2012 Mr. Porter pporter@montville.net Room 307 Course Description: This course examines the political‚ social‚ economic‚ intellectual and cultural history of Europe from the late Middle Ages and Renaissance to the turn of the 21st century. AP European History is a challenging course designed to be the equivalent of a freshman college Western Civilization course and can earn students college credit. Students are expected to do a considerable amount of reading in both
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was the Ghent Treaty a Failure or a Success in the views of Americans? How Did it affect the country ? Ghent Treaty: Success or Failure? The War of 1812 was fought between the new and fragile United States against the British Empire‚ Canadian Provinces and a few Woodland Indian Tribes. The War of 1812 was an attempt by the Americans to establish their dominance in North America by conquest of the British owned Canadian Provinces. With an under supplied and undermanned army and navy the United
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Key Terms 17th and Early 18th Century | | | |Roanoke |1585 – Lost Colony – Croatan – Sir Walter Raleigh | | | | |Virginia Company
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US AP TERMS: 1920’s Fordney- McCumber Tariff- Created in 1922 raised American tariffs in order to protect factories and farms. Congress displayed a pro-business attitude in passing the tariff and in promoting foreign trade through providing huge loans to Europe‚ which in turn bought more American goods. This was a result of WWI‚ because the government wanted to ensure economic self-sufficiency so that no future enemy could manipulate the American economy. Also‚ many industries wanted to
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taxations caused upheaval protests within the colonies. A successor to the debunked Stamp Act was the Townshend Act which were designed to collect revenue from the colonists in America by putting customs duties on imports of glass‚ lead‚ paints‚ paper‚ and tea. The colonists‚ however‚ objected strenuously (Reid 196). Colonists were outraged‚ and responded by boycotting all British goods which in turn affected the English merchants. This caused British merchants to appeal to Parliament to repeal
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Irene Kim AP Euro Winter Assignment 1/2 Unit I 1. There are several relationships that can be pointed out between the Middle Ages and modern times. One such example is the overpopulation that Europe faced before the Black Death and the overpopulation that the world is facing at this moment. Although not everywhere‚ there is poor sanitation and malnutrition in many areas of the world as there were back then. Another example is the economy and how there were a lack of jobs and pay for people
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Unit 2 Study Guide Industrialization/Immigration 1. Importance of Steel 2. John D. Rockefeller 3. Andrew Carnegie 4. Mass production 5. Thomas Edison 6. Monopolies 7. Horizontal/vertical integration 8. Entrepreneur 9. Corporation 10. American Federation of Labor 11. Haymarket Riot 12. Pullman Strike 13. International Commerce Commission (ICC) 14. Steerage 15. Sweatshop 16. Sherman Anti-Trust Act 17. Karl
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AP Essay Henry Wolski 9/28/11 The age of exploration created new opportunities for all the countries involved in it. New trade routes were established to try and locate a northwest passage‚ leading to the development of the triangle trade system. England was the last country to colonize the Americas. The raw materials and goods taken from the Americas were given to the mother country‚ which was the idea of mercantilism. The opportunities created by this
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“The Third Noble Truth is the Truth of the Stopping of Sorrow: It is complete stopping of that craving…being released from it‚ giving no place to it” (Document1). The spread of Buddhism in China was due to the appeal it had on the people and the influence it made on the culture‚ like the Third Noble Truth states‚ stopping sorrow leads to one being content and being released from any heavy sorrow weighing you down‚ a life which describes and explains the spread of this particular religion in China
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UNITED STATES HISTORY Section H Part A (Suggested writing time-40 minutes) The following question requires you to construct a coherent essay that integrates your interpretation of documents A-H and your knowledge of the period referred to in the question. In your essay‚ you should strive to support your assertions both by citing key pieces of evidence from the documents and by drawing on your knowledge of the period. To what extent and for what reasons did the policies of the
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