During the period between 1865 and 1900‚ the lives of many African Americans had changed in both political and social ways. They had a lifestyle transformation. Politically‚ African Americans were able to vote. As for socially‚ African Americans were beginning to be viewed as equals. African Americans were given the opportunity to vote. There opinion began to matter. As Alfred H. Ward expresses in his art black men waiting in a line‚ it means much more than a single file. Displaying the men
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The first thing you need to do is review the DBQ rubric sheet‚ your essay & my comments. - Did you answer the prompt …or did you merely interpret documents? - If you tried to do POV‚ did you get it or not? Look closely at what you wrote for POV. General Comments: - The word is Confucian –not Confusion‚ Confucious‚ nor even Confucionis. You need to write the right word so at the AP reading they don’t laugh at you J! - These are pretty decent DBQ’s
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“directed towards the poor”‚ as Nicolas Versoris says in his Book of Reason (Doc. 3)‚ resulting in extensive casualties in the middle and lower classes. It kept people from traveling to places that may carry the disease‚ such as the group of gentlemen Sir John Reresby‚ and English
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In the years leading up to the American revolution it was evident that a new identity was developing for colonist. Stemming from the Seven Year’s colonists were slowly discovering a new way of viewing the mother country and themselves. By the eve of the American revolution most colonist had adopted the identity of British citizens fighting to protect their liberties. A strong bond of unity can be seen from colonists’ shared opinions and agreed course of action‚ while a large loyalist population supports
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By the eve of the Revolution‚ the colonists had developed a strong sense of unity as Americans. Many events leading up to the American Revolution had been responsible for a small part of uniting the coloists together as Americans. One of the first visible steps was the French and Indian War (0). Especially after the embarassing failure of Braddock’s battle‚ Britain’s strong and invincible image was shattered in the eyes of the colonists. The war also bolstered colonial self-esteem‚ and united the
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Question: Was the Constitution written to be a landmark document or was it simply a compilation of compromises? After the American Revolution had ended in 1783‚ the states were left in a vulnerable position. Although the states had won the war and gained their independence‚ there was still a huge war deficit‚ fear of invasion from England or other countries like France or Spain‚ a virtually non-existent army of 600 men‚ no strong trade route to bring in money‚ Indian hostilities and a very weak
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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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Chapter 16: Atlantic Revolutions‚ Global Echoes‚ 1750–1914 I. Atlantic Revolutions in a Global Context A. “world crisis?” B. Uniqueness of the Atlantic revolutions C. The Atlantic as a “world of ideas” D. Democratic revolutions E. Global impact of the Atlantic revolutions II. Comparing Atlantic Revolutions A. The North American Revolution‚ 1775–1787 1. Revolutionary? 2. English in England and English in America 3. New taxes and ideas from the Enlightenment 4. A revolutionary
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A lot of people view “knowledge” as how smart you are‚ or what you know and what you don’t‚ but there is much more to what “knowledge” really is. According to Charles van Doren‚ knowledge is the accumulation of information and the understanding of how things work. There are three types of knowledge: knowledge in particulars‚ general knowledge‚ and certain knowledge. Particular knowledge is knowing where you are well enough to survive and general knowledge is understanding concepts. Van Doren gives
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Before the eve of the revolution the American colonist had developed a sense of their identity and unity to the extent that they all wanted freedom from the empirical power ‚ Britain‚ but at the same time they still wanted their own individual powers and freedoms from the rest of the colonies. The colonists knew that in the instance that a war with Britain was to happen that it was a join or die prospect ( Doc. A). In document A it also shows that all colonies had found that unity was the only way
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