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    The Sociology of Native Americans and Early American Colonists Culture Clash: Native Americans and European American Colonials Gender‚ Class‚ & Race in Early America Before the arrival of the first European settlers‚ numerous tribes of Native Americans were allowed to establish themselves across the American continents in isolation and without interruption from outside forces. When the Mayflower finally arrived in 1620‚ the English settlers and Native Americans were so vastly different it is

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    The American Civil War‚ which erupted in 1861‚ was the culmination of a series of profound and divisive events between the North and South. One significant event was the Missouri Compromise of 1820. This legislation was designed to maintain a balance between free and slave states‚ admitting Missouri as a slave state while Maine entered as a free state. Additionally‚ it established the 36°30’ line‚ north of which slavery was prohibited in the Louisiana Territory. Although it temporarily quelled sectional

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    Paul Pham Mr. Homan‚p 1 American History III‚ 6.0 20 January 2016 The Invisible Empire America was viewed as a land that offered equal freedoms and opportunities for people of any race or religion yet there was a group that prided itself on denying those freedoms to people who were not Protestant and a White-Anglo Saxon. The South was torn apart after the civil war. Frustrated with antebellum South‚ six Confederate veterans by names of Captain John C. Lester‚ Major James R. Crowe‚ John D. Kennedy

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    The results of the Industrial Revolution were extraordinary and reflected in all sectors of human life‚ In the nineteenth century‚ technology advanced‚ reaching first the United States and later the whole of America‚ as it will be presenting in classes from number 3 to number 6. In addition‚ the consolidation of this new industrial capitalist society will confront colonialism in the American continent‚ causing several countries in America to fight for independence‚ as we will see in classes number 7

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    The Catholic Church during the early 16th Century was rooted throughout Europe. The Church influenced every country and its respective monarchs through the Church’s wealth and power. The Catholic Church placed a tight hold on the general populace with individuals who went against the Church being branded as heretics and excommunicated. The wealth and power of the Church eventually caused the quality of the clergy to deteriorate. Priests became corrupt and subjected to their physical desires. They

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    APUSH To what extent was late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century United States expansionism a continuation of past United States expansionism and to what extent was it a departure? Throughout the history of the United States‚ America had a desire to expand its boundaries. The United States acquired most of it’s land during the nineteenth and early twentieth century with a brief break during the Civil War and Reconstruction. However‚ the way America went about graining new lands

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    What if the American Civil War never happened? It could have if the Crittenden Compromise would have passed. The Crittenden Compromise was one of the last attempts to stop a war from happening in America. The Crittenden Compromise is one cause of the Civil War. It would have allowed the southern states to have slaves‚ and the northern to not. It also would have allowed the Confederates to maintain their beliefs in slavery being useful and right. First‚ the Crittenden Compromise was important

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    Exam 3 – Women’s Rights Movement Beginning in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries‚ women’s rights movement and their rejection of traditional gender roles have been a controversy all over the world. Many females have battled to regain their stigma of what is appropriate and what is not. There have and always will be many individuals whom believe that women should have no rights at all. While there are also others whom suppose that women should have the world owed to them for the many ways

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    American History Notes Ch.1 * 1000-1200 AD … Cahokia community * Part of the Woodland culture (Missisipian people) * Pop. 10‚000-20‚000 * Gone by the time Europeans come to America * Lived along the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers * Lived in houses * Farmers * Traders * Largest civilization in US * Moral Code * Mound builders The great serpant mound is theirs * May have went extinct because of drought‚ locusts

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    The Americans first came to the New Land because they wanted to escape the persecution and political abuse of power in Britain. Furthermore‚ debtors and young men came to America for a new life. To accommodate the settlers‚ the US government expanded westward. However‚ American expansion did not demonstrate progress because each expansion moved America further from its ideals and more towards Britain’s flaws. Progress is movement towards a goal. But America was not moving towards its underlying goal;

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