AP Essay Henry Wolski 9/28/11 The age of exploration created new opportunities for all the countries involved in it. New trade routes were established to try and locate a northwest passage‚ leading to the development of the triangle trade system. England was the last country to colonize the Americas. The raw materials and goods taken from the Americas were given to the mother country‚ which was the idea of mercantilism. The opportunities created by this
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1. People in motion a. From Berginia to America i. By 12‚000 B.C. humans were in Siberia an western Alaska and Berginia‚ crossing land bridge. ii. By 8‚000 B.C. humans had reached Tierra del Fuego b. The Great Extinction and the Rise of Agriculture i. As glaciers receded and climate warmed‚ those who migrated south and east found good environment ii. Some natives settled down and adopted food cultivation 1) Permanent farm villages began to develop c. The Norsemen
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Unit 5 Diane Arias PI: Panic of 1857: broke out due to California gold inflating the currency and over-speculation in land and railroads. Two groups opposed the idea: Eastern industrialists feared that the free land would drain its supply of workers and the South feared that the West would fill up with free-soilers who would form anti-slavery states‚ unbalancing the Senate even more. The Tariff of 1857 lowered duties to about 20%. North blamed it for causing the panic‚ because they felt they needed
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Throughout the period 1801-1817‚ the government was ruled by the Jeffersonian Republican party‚ whereas the Federalist Party began to slowly fade away from public view. The Jeffersonian Republican party‚ led by Thomas Jefferson‚ professed to favor a weak central government through the support of more states’ rights‚ "...that the states are independent... to...themselves...and united as to everything respecting foreign nations." (Document A). On the other hand‚ the Federalist Party‚ previously led
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APUSH UNIT 3 STUDY GUIDE Articles of Confederation: agreement among the 13 founding states that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution. The new Constitution provided for a much stronger national government with a chief executive (the president)‚ courts‚ and taxing powers Shay’s Rebellion: armed uprising that took place in central and western Massachusetts in 1786 and 1787. The rebellion was named after Daniel Shays
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are a part of American history that had happened sometime before or around the early 1600 through the antebellum era‚ and beyond the history of World War I. The Negro slaves were considered an inferior race according to “middle-class values‚” (Chesnutt 169). The facts are slavery; racism and religion are exposed in history. Nonetheless‚ regionalist authors Charles Chesnutt and Mark Twain had craft stories displaying the realities of the three attributes during the Gilded Age. Of course slavery is
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Wages the Ultimate Problem in the Gilded Age The Jungle was a sad‚ depressing and disgusting representation of the Gilded Age industrial labor. Sinclair aimed at the public’s heart and by accident hit its stomach. Laborers worked hard hours and never saw their families‚ and had a fear that followed them‚ all just for little compensation. Industrial workers lives would have been easier if they had higher wages. The problem with industrial laborers in the Gilded Age‚ represented in Utpon Sinclair’s
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Americans have well understood the significance of the phrase‚ "All men are created equal." Throughout the history of the United States‚ the meaning of the phrase " All men are created equal" has changed and expanded. When this statement was written in the Constitution‚ it was to ensure that people in America would never be subject to a tyrannical and oppressive rule that benefited only the upper class and those in Britain. The people occupying America before the American Revolutionary War were taxed
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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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The impact that industrialization had on the Guilded Age was huge. Companies could manufacture products a lot more efficiently than before. Talented Craftsmen were being fired and replaced by unskilled immigrants that were willing to be paid less‚ and not as many people were needed for a factory to run properly. These are just a few examples of the major impact that industrialization ha on the Guilded age. Industrialization was basically large scale companies obtaining machines to be able to mass
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