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    History 11 Take Home Final Please be prepared to transfer your answers to a scantron when you arrive at the final. Bring #2 pencils. 1. As evidenced by the formation of the Lowell Female Reform Association in 1844‚ female workers in New England textile mills had changed their methods of resistance to deteriorating working conditions. What new method were they using? a. They organized a nationwide product boycott. b. They called for the passage of state legislation to shorten the workday. c

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    People’s’ History of the United States was to tell the history from the viewpoint of the weak‚ the ones conquered‚ instead of the classic viewpoint from which history is told of the victors‚ those who conquered‚ the ruling class‚ etc. The reason for Zinn’s dispute of Kissinger’s statement comes directly from Zinn’s own ideological view on how history should be told. Kissinger states 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. that “History is the memory of the states”‚ while Zinn holds to that history told

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    Since its official birth date‚ November 10‚ 1775‚ the United States Marine Corps has passionately and powerfully defended our nation’s interests on land and sea‚ and successfully protected the lives‚ property‚ and generic well being of its citizens as part of the United States Armed Forces. As the primary purpose and drive‚ the U.S. Marine Corps maintains Fleet Marine Forces of combined air and ground units to seize and defend advanced Naval bases‚ and for land operations that are carried out as

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    Many times in the United Stateshistory‚ during crises‚ the citizens looked towards to their president to guide them through the situation. In some cases‚ the president did a good job and other times they made it worse. The presidents that handled an American crisis well are J.F.K. and F.D.R. on numerous occasions. The crises that Kennedy helped the U.S. citizens through were the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis. The crises that Roosevelt helped the U.S. citizens through were

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    History of the United States from 1800 to 1900 MW 1:30pm-3:20pm Instructor:Knittel YuChuan Zhou This this personal introduction. The most important thing in life is a course to know yourself. After entering university‚ entered into a new environment -- totally different from my hometown of an environment. Whenever I encounter problems in interpersonal‚ my mind emerge out of such a question: what the hell am I how? After repeatedly the feeling of frustration‚ I found that I own a lot of changes

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    History of Natural Resources Management in the United States By Peter T. Smith NR1 When North America was first settled and colonial development began‚ during the 1700s‚ forest covered about 40% (820‚000‚000 acres) of the nation not including Alaska. The eastern part of the states was the first to be settled. Settlers had many obstacles to overcome and most critical of such obstacles were how to feed‚ warm‚ and shelter themselves. The answer to these problems for them at this time was forest. Forest

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    Areopagitica and its place in United States History Areopagitica‚ by John Milton‚ was a speech designed and written to denounce the use of licensure and decry the suppression of free speech and the press. Essentially‚ this document set the stage for modern laws regarding free speech and freedom of the press in the United States‚ making this document one of the penultimate articles in terms of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. The First Amendment allows for freedom of both speech

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    New Nation Following the Civil War‚ the United States was a country that had experienced great loss and had gone to great lengths to either maintain or abolish slavery. As a nation‚ they were given the difficult task of repairing the damaged country as a whole‚ but especially the south and its economy. Their job was to not only to restore the country‚ but to modernize it and make it stronger compared to other nations. The task presented to the United States‚ its president‚ and its government as a

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    a bill that demanded that at least half of the voters in a conquered rebel state take an oath of allegiance to the United States before reconstruction could begin‚ prohibited ex-Confederates from participating in the drafting of new state constitutions and also guaranteed the equality of freedmen before the law. 5. Lincoln refused to sign the Wade-Davis bill into law and proceeded to nurture the formation of loyal state governments under his own plan. 6. Lincoln endorsed suffrage for southern blacks

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    men had to take an “iron-clad” oath (saying that they never partook in the Confederate war effort) -All officers above the rank of lieutenant‚ and all civil officials in the Confederacy‚ would be disfranchised and deemed “not a citizen of the United States” 6) The Wade-Davis Manifesto Was issued to Newspapers by some Radical Republicans‚ it contained an unprecedented attack on a sitting president by members of his own party. They accused Lincoln of usurpation of presidential powers and disgraceful

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