The Gilded Age * During the Gilded Age‚ American businesses were transformed: * Massive corporations replaced small‚ family businesses * New technology‚ transportation‚ marketing‚ labor relations‚ & efficient mass-production * By 1900‚ the U.S. was the most industrialized country in the world * 19th-century inventors led to an “Age of Invention”: * Cyrus Field’s telegraph cable * Business typewriters‚ cash registers‚ adding machines * High-speed textile
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APUSH Test Review ch.9-15 1. Men took low-paying jobs as factory hands‚ construction workers‚ and canal diggers‚ while the women took positions as domestic servants in middle- and upper-class homes. They were accused of taking jobs and driving down wages. 2. Finney conducted emotional revival meetings that stressed conversion rather than instruction and discipline. 3. Both of the Great Awakenings were sparked by a declining church attendance; both included ’mass preaching’‚ preachers
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Ryan Casserly Mr. Ferretti APUSH 5 March 2013 1. Agricultural Adjustment Act The Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) (48 Stat. 31‚ enacted May 12‚ 1933) restricted agricultural production in the New Deal era by paying farmers to reduce crop area. 2. Tennessee Valley Authority An independent federal government agency in the US‚ created in 1933 as part of the New Deal proposals. Responsible for the development of the whole Tennessee river basin‚ it provides one of the world’s greatest
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APUSH REVIEW This is intended to be a guide for your exam review. A candidate needs to get about 60% of the 80 multiple choice questions correct to have a good chance to pass the AP Exam (plus 5/6 on each of the three essays). The questions are designed to test your understanding of different aspects of U.S. history: political/diplomatic‚ social/economic‚ cultural/ intellectual. It is not EASY! Prepare Well! Exploration‚ Discovery‚ and Settlement -Europe in the Sixteenth Century -Significant
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“Life’s but a walking shadow‚ a poor player‚ that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot‚ full of sound and fury‚ signifying nothing.” – William Shakespeare The theatre has been a part of entertainment since ancient Greece‚ around 4th century BC or thereabouts. The theatre grew out of festivals in honor of the god Dionysus. Aeschylus created the first play in her honor. The first Greek plays were all tragedies but eventually comedy
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Josiah Strong’s Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis)‚ the development of a new steel navy (which prompted Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan’s 1890 book The Influence of Sea Power upon History‚ 1660-1783)‚ and the rise of imperialism among the European powers seeking to expand into Africa in the 1880s and the Chinese Empire in the 1890s Why did President Cleveland not want to annex Hawaii? Grover Cleveland‚ an anti-imperialist‚ opposed annexation as an infringement upon a soverign nation
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Russia 1890-1917: how was Russia set up to be the nation it is today? Introduction: ‘Imperial Russia’ all started in the 17th century where a man named Tsar Ivan IV ‘the terrible’ battled and defeated the Mongols which were the previous rulers of Russia. He appointed himself the emperor of Russia and his heirs would carry on his principles and his way of ruling throughout the century’s to build a strong nation. The Tsars of the Romanov dynasty would carry on ruling till the last reign in 1890-1917
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Amy Lee 2/3/14 DBQ Question During the period of 1890 to 1925‚ new political and economic opportunities arose for women because the cultural assumptions about women’s roles outside of the home were progressive and modern. Leaders‚ such as Susan B. Anthony‚ were instrumental in implementing these changes. Women were viewed as becoming wiser‚ stronger‚ and better able to protect themselves and their children. This cultural shift which began with this time period allowed for expansion of the traditional
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Kibby 1 Pierce Kibby Thursday‚ February 28‚ 2013 Expansionism DBQ APUSH Expansionism Throughout American history‚ growth has always been present in industry‚ economics‚ technology and many other fronts. This of course began when the first European settlers of America came from England. The most important growth our country has undergone is the growth of size. Starting at a few settlements and evolving into a world power in just a few hundred years illustrates the rate at which
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Neha Rattu 09.06.2014 APUSH Chapter 1 1. Native Americans in the “New World” a. bad omens- lightning struck temple‚ blazing lights in the sky b. BAMM! White people are on the shores :O big shocker (let’s just welcome them‚ forgetting all the bad omens) c. HERNAN CORTES------ 1519 ----- shows his beautiful face to the Indians (key event in the discovery of the New World) d. WHYY DID HE COME? Well‚ in short‚ during the 1400-1500s in Europe‚ there was a lot of
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