Zinn: Chapter 11 Courtney Sever Period 2 Chapter 11: Robber Barons and Rebels Main Ideas - Businessmen monopolized the markets (railroads and steel are two good examples) in exchange for “economic stability” to ensure that they had control over the full market. They would then change prices as they pleased to drive out their competition. - Many workers in the South organized strikes‚ asking for higher wages. Most of these workers were black or members of the Knights of Labor. These strikes were
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1. In a nutshell‚ Professor Howard Zinn’s purpose for writing “A People’s History of the United States” was to offer a history of the United States (from the first settlers all the way to the mid1970’s at the time of publishing) that did not outright lie or “sugar coat” our country’s past. Furthermore‚ Zenn seeks to avoid manipulating our history as a means to calm the reader‚ albeit causing controversy when his book first debuted. Additionally‚ in the word’s of the author himself‚ “If history is to be creative
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southern states in return for the admission of the Mexican war territories (California‚ especially) into the Union as non-slave states. The Act made it easy for slaveowners to recapture ex-slaves or simply to pick up blacks they claimed had run away” (Zinn‚ A People’s History of the United States). This clearly portrays the government’s concern with national unity and power over slave emancipation. These actions also support Zinn’s assertion that "Such a government would never accept an end to slavery
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Chapter 10 The Other Civil War 1. What factors contributed to the growth of monopolies before the Civil War? What are some examples of monopolies formed in the 1850s? 2. What role did the federal and state governments play in the creation of monopolies? 3. Define “working-class consciousness.” Use the following documents to help you. a. 1827 “Address…before the Mechanics and Working Classes…of Philadelphia” b. 1829 Francis Wright’s speech on July 4th c. 1829 George
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contact is the side of the story from the victims. H. These atrocities are absent in many texts because historians try to preserve morality and not let out all the immoral things that happened in America’s history. Zinn compares it to radioactive wastes being buried in containers. I. Zinn means that historians
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Summary of Howard Zinn’s “Violence and Human Nature” In Howard Zinn’s article “Violence and Human Nature” Zinn investigates the belief that violence is an innate trait of human beings. In the end he comes to a conclusion that not all humans are born with a drive to be violent‚ but instead mainly influenced by that person’s natural surroundings and environments. In section one of Zinn’s article‚ he explains three events in which he has experienced which have ultimately shaped his perception of
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AP Biology Reading Guide Chapter 10: Photosynthesis Fred and Theresa Holtzclaw Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education‚ Inc. - 1 - Name_______________________Period___________ Chapter 10: Photosynthesis This chapter is as challenging as the one you just finished on cellular respiration. However‚ conceptually it will be a little easier because the concepts learned in Chapter 9—namely‚ chemiosmosis and an electron transport system—will play a central role in photosynthesis. 1
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Zinn Chapter summaries CH 15 In chapter 15 it talks about the end of World War I temporarily brought prosperity to the United States. With its influence growing in the world‚ the mixture of big business and government was increasingly looking to expand American power overseas. There was still dissatisfaction at home with the pace of reforms. The AFL and the IWW staged a general strike in Seattle in 1919 that resulted in 100‚000 workers walking off the job. This strike was put down by violence despite
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9/18/10 A People’s History of the United States Chapter 2 What are the origins of slavery? Since the arrival of the Virginians to the New World‚ they were desperate for labor. The Virginians were unable to grow enough food to stay alive. During the winter‚ they were reduced to roaming the woods for nuts and berries and digging up graves to eat the corpses until five hundred colonists were reduced to sixty. They couldn’t force the Indians to work for them because they were outnumbered and despite
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Name: ______________________________________________________ Period:_____ Chapter Review: 10 Mendel & Meiosis College Biology 1. An organism that is true breeding for a trait is said to be (a) homozygous (b) heterozygous (c) a monohybrid (d) a dihybrid 2. At the end of meiosis‚ how many haploid cells have been formed from the original cell? (a) one (b) two (c) three (d) four 3. When Mendel transferred pollen from one pea plant to another‚ he was ___ the plants. (a) self pollinating
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