In the early seventeenth century‚ relations between American Indians and European colonists were often characterized as much by collaboration and cooperation as by competition. However by the mid to late seventeenth century‚ brutal wars between Indians and colonists broke out in nearly every colonial region‚ from New England down to New Spain. While nearly all colonial regions endured worsening relations between the Indians and Europeans‚ the disputes occurred due to different reasons depending on
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Several events transpired in the years following 1768‚ including the Boston Massacre‚ the smallpox outbreak‚ the rights received by colonists‚ and the establishment of Dartmouth College. The Boston Massacre was a tragedy that struck the Massachusetts area. Smallpox was a disease that spread rapidly throughout the world killing thousands. Colonists’ rights mirrored those born in England. Dartmouth College was founded and their charter signed in 1769. In 1769 and the following years‚ America was the
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T Jackson DBQ How Democratic Was Andrew Jackson? •- -j- "* - * j ^ i ^ i- •>"• \ v * • i ’ " ’ * ** "- A Document Based Question (DBQ) 65 © 2002 The DBQ Project L 1 Jackson DBQ STUDENT GUIDE SHEET How Democratic Was Andrew Jackson? Directions: Many great names in American history are closely connected with an idea or an event - George Washington and the Revolution‚ Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War‚ Martin Luther King and Civil Rights. Andrew Jackson’s name is tied very closely to democracy
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1993 DBQ Early English colonies in America hardly resembled the union of men and women that would later fight against England and build a new country. In fact‚ until the mid-eighteenth century‚ most English colonists had very little‚ if anything to do with the settlers in neighboring colonies. They heard news of Indian wars and other noteworthy events‚ not from the colony itself‚ but from England. The colonies in the New World appeared completely different and the prospect of any unity between them
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Ratifying the Constitution DBQ “…thirteen powerful‚ independent‚ disunited States are in the habit off…refusing to obey our national Congress…I pray that we can act in time to prevent the bad things we fear may happen.” George Washington wrote this in a letter to John Jay (Doc 3). Even the man who is immediately thought of when talking about the start of our nation thought that without a new set of guidelines to run our country by‚ the young country would eventually break apart and the fighting
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were the American colonists. The British’s government had tighter control with the laws (Acts) they made making‚ the colonists revolutionize. In many of the acts it shows the British overpowering the colonists through force which leads the colonists to get hasty and so the rebel. One of the things Britain did was passed the stamp act making colonists furious and speak out. British Control is seen throughout the Sugar Act‚ Quartering Act‚ and Intolerable Acts which made the colonist revolutionize. In
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American Revolution (DBQ) In the time period of 1860 and 1877‚ constitutional and social developments occurred in America that amounted to a revolution. Some constitutional developments were the Secession of 1860‚ the Emancipation Proclamation‚ and Amendments 14 and 15. Some social developments were the Freedmen’s Bureau‚ the Civil Rights Act of 1875‚ and Congressional Reconstruction. Put together‚ all these developments led to a revolution. Prior to 1860 the United States was already split
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Essay Question: What were the Europeans (explorers‚ conquerors‚ and/or settlers) and Native Americans like just before contact and what were their encounters like‚ as the Europeans struggled to establish themselves? Europeans and Native Americans both had very distinct lifestyles and each viewed one another differently due to the encounters they experienced together during the era that Spain‚ France‚ and England were establishing themselves in America. These three European countries were each
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There are many factors that led the colonists to declare their independence from Great Britain. The colonists didn’t believe in any form of taxation. The Navigation Act‚ an act that required goods from non-English colonies to pass to America before being transported to America. The French and Indian War‚ a war between the French and their Indians allies and the British and their Indian allies. This war left Great Britain in a tremendous amount of war debt‚ in effect they made more taxes. The Stamp
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Ways in which economics helped gain independence from colonial rule are colonists. Therefore economics helped them gain independence when colonists joined together and fought Britain to get independence‚ some examples why colonists wanted independence are taxes‚ slavery‚ another example because Britain prohibited trading with the non-British world. The next way economics helped colonists gain independence often seemed motivated by economic factors. Furthermore‚ economic factors that helped them get
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