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    The United States expansion and acquiring new territories began around 1820 and concluded around 1849. Settlers began to move west over the Appalachian Mountains in the early 1800’s. They settled into new states and claimed their new territories. They began to invade California‚ lands belonging to Mexico‚ and Texas. In the mid 1800’s the US took control over all land belonging to Mexico‚ and southern parts of Oregon. The US then progressed to control land from coast to coast. Before the 1820’s

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    Summary Chapter 11 11.1  The WW1 led to the rise of governments all around Europe and Asia. A Italy  leader Benito Mussolini  convinced his country they needed a strong leader and government so in 1919 he founded Italy’s Fascist Party. A communist Vladimir Lenin started to gather all of Russia’s weaker territory to form the Soviet­Union  Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler became dictator of Germany. In Asia‚ Japanese military leaders took control of a political system that had been weakened by economic stress

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    Bethany McDaniel AP World History Summer 2012 Assignment Chapter 1&2 Question 1 How did beer lead to the development of cities in Mesopotamia and Egypt? Grains grew widespread in the Fertile Crescent (The crescent shaped area which had an ideal climate and soil for growing plants and raising livestock‚ it stretches from Egypt‚ up the Mediterranean coast to Turkey‚ and then down again to the border between Iraq and Iran.) causing the unintentional discovery of beer. The Fertile Crescent’s extremely

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    Cotton Diplomacy During the 1850’s‚ the vast differences between the North and the South brought about the impending notion of war between the two. The South knew that the North had them beat on every level. The North had manufacturing capabilities with factories that could produce supplies necessary for outfitting an army. Also‚ the North’s population of 22 million was nearly three times the population of the South. The South only had nine million people‚ four million of whom were black slaves

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    "A History of the Word in Six Glasses" "Beer in Mesopotamia and Egypt" (Chapter 1 and 2) How might beer have influenced the transition from hunting and gathering to agricultural-based societies. Beer might have/had influenced the transition from hunting and gathering to agricultural-based societies. One way beer could have done this was that after the discovery of beer‚ the demand for beer began to increase. With increase demand for beer‚ farming would increase taking away time to hunt and gather

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    Divorce in the United States Divorce involves the recognition that a marriage has hopelessly failed and that at least one of the partners has no desire to continue the marital relationship. Divorce legally dissolves a marriage‚ and permits the partners to remarry if they choose. Divorce differs from an annulment‚ which declares a marriage invalid because of some flaw in the contract. The early American settlers brought with them three different views on divorce: 1) the Roman Catholic view

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    In chapter I‚ The Mindsets‚ of her book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success‚ Carol S. Dweck celebrates the fact that the beliefs we have about our potentialities to strive in life are determined by the way we approach the circumstances that we encounter. Starting from this broad idea‚ she ended up categorizing those beliefs into two sets of mindsets‚ which are the fixed mindset and the growth mindset. On one hand‚ the fixed mindset relies on an ideology of a constant reconfirmation of our potentiality

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    electricity‚ and not many being educated. Chapter 1. This chapter is about William’s friends‚ his everyday life‚ and magic. William’s best friends are Gilbert‚ Geoffrey his cousin‚ and Peter. They usually do things like buy candy‚ race cars they made‚ play soccer‚ cut designs into wheels of trucks‚ and have spit-ball wars. William also believed in magic‚ and magicians who “cure illnesses”‚ or “cast curses” on people‚ or other things like that. People pay thousands of kwacha for magicians to help

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    party arose from the ashes of the old Russian Empire. But It was also a time for Prosperity for countries like the United States. America will roar in the 1920’s. It was an age of melodramatic and political change. The Cleveland Indians won their first world series in 1920.On January 1‚ 1920 - For the first time‚ the 1920 census indicates a population in the United States over 100

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    In Chapter 1 “ Columbus‚ The Indians‚ and Human Progress”‚ it explained to the readers how Spain was looking for gold and silver to make Spanish richer using the Columbus expedition. At that time Columbus was promised to get 10 % of the profit and he will be a governorship over new-found lands‚ and the fame that would go with a new title: Admiral of the Ocean Sea. The first expedition‚ Columbus reported to the Court in Madrid was extravagant. He insisted he had reached Asia (but it was wrong because

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