Summer 2012 Assignments: Due Thursday‚ September 6th. Welcome to AP. US History! The following is a summer assignment to get you started for the new school year. Part I: Textbook Assignment. (Use the textbook if you received it in June or download the PDF files or use the dropbox link) Part II: Free Response Question Essay Part I: Use your American Passages textbook if you have‚ or Download the pdf files titled “AP US CH 1” and “AP US Chapter 2 excerpts” Read. As you read‚ Outline the chapter and
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Myles Barrow December 1‚ 2014 AP U.S History Hellmuth When one reviews American History from 1785-1850‚ it can be concluded that‚ “Americans never learned to add without also dividing”. This is referring to America’s inability to have more land without also having the land divided into sections‚ whether it be north and south or east and west. For example when the Louisiana Purchase was made‚ yes it added more land to the U.S‚ but it also made it so there was another territory that
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J Fircha Honors US History I 2 March 2012 Removal of Indians DBQ All presidents have a legacy; some good‚ some bad. Andrew Jackson’s legacy is the Indian Removal Act. This act was not supported by the Supreme Court‚ made Native Americans leave the places that they called home for countless years‚ and had a huge impact on Native Americans personally. In 1830‚ with consent and encouragement from President Andrew Jackson‚ many Indians were wrongly forced off of their native lands and onto foreign
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Dogs-roving English ships that plundered Spanish treasure ships (1560s) St. Augustine–fort Spain created in Florida 1565 to protect the route of its treasure fleet against English ships‚ French settlers‚ hostile Indians (1st permanent Euro. settlement in US) Comprehensive Orders for New Discoveries-new policy Spanish leaders introduced after military setbacks to pacify Indians by Christianizing missionaries not conquistadores (1573) Ecomenderos-privelaged spanish landowners in NM‚ who were allowed by
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WRITTEN SECTIONS OF AP WORLD HISTORY TEST In the free-response section of the AP World History Exam‚ all students are asked to answer three constructed-response (essay) questions: Part A — An essay that requires comparison and analysis of up to ten “documents” which can include texts‚ pictures‚ graphs‚ maps‚ etc.—DOCUMENT BASED QUESTION (DBQ) Part B — An essay question that deals specifically with continuity and change over time (covering at least one of the periods in the concept outline)
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In America there were many reasons that colonists on both sides of the issue of taxation had for whether taxes on the American people were necessary and justified. In the reading about the colonist’s responses to the stamp act of 1765‚ both sides were represented. The people who were in favor of the stamp act felt that America had created a burden on the British government and that they needed to help lessen that burden on England. They also felt that since the government had protected the colonists
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reality when one acts upon it and history has many impact on helping one reach their dreams. Repeating history is like falling backwards instead of forward‚ a path to obscure one’s dream‚ and not learn from the previous mistakes. History has made dreams possible by having independence‚ freedom and having the opportunity to turn your dream into reality. A woman can be in a male dominant profession if she wants to and that is because of the women’s right. History has shown us a way to turn our dreams into
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Elliott Gengo AP US DBQ Summary 10/7/14 Document A Thomas Jefferson wrote to Gibeon Granger about the powers of the states. Jefferson believes the country is too large to have a single federal government. He believes that the states should have some power too. Jefferson says the Republicans have accepted these rights from the Constitution and the federalists have opposed them. Document B Jefferson tells Samuel Miller that the Constitution doesn’t give the federal government
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Japanese laborers as the Hawaiian population declined. A new treaty allowed Hawaiian sugar to be sold to the U.S. Duty-free in exchange for Hawaii promising to not let any other country interfere in Hawaii. Imperialism #97 Hawaiian King Kalakaua was forced to sign a treaty (Bayonet Treaty) which gave complete control of Pearl Harbor to America. The U.S. Then withdrew the special duty-free status of sugar cane for Hawaii which severely hurt the Hawaiian
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Miguel Raymond European History Essay Final Exam Was Germany to blame for World War 1? Germany was in fact to blame for World War 1. Although there were other countries that were partially to blame for there actions. But it was clear that they played the minor role and Germany played the major one. In 1904 there was a rivalry between nations that increased to a certain extent that caused armies to expand. Certain nations also tried to build alliances. Germany was an imperialistic country
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