AP Exam Vocab • Cahokia – One of the largest urban centers created by Mississippian people‚ containing 30‚000 residents in 1250. • Transoceanic migrations- a population migration across oceans • Beringia- a subcontinent bridging Asia and North America‚ named after the Bering Straits. • Athapascan- A people that began to settle the forests in the northwestern area of North America around 5000 B.C.E. • Clovis tradition-A powerful new and sophisticated style of tool making‚
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originally resigned in the Great West. The boundaries were established in tribes along the Great West. 2. The Indian wars in the West were often savage clashes. Colonel Chivington’s militia massacred Indians at Sand Creek‚ Colorado in 1864.In 1866 a Sioux war party attempted to block construction of the Bozeman Trail and they ambushed Fetterman’s command and the Indians left not a single survivor. 3. The spread of diseases led to the fall of the Native Americans. In the West‚ white soldiers spread
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and a bridge for John Dunbar a white man of great standing in the white community‚ and also for the Sioux Indian’s who were misunderstood and stereotype often. They relied on multiple forms of communication to break down the barriers that stood between them‚ and create some bridges toward becoming friends. Stereotyping on both sides was a huge barrier as well as the bridge between John and the Sioux. If it had not been for the stereotyping between them there would have been no interest in trying
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Indians found themselves caught in between their own traditions and the westward-pushing white man. Indians fought one another as with the Comanche over the Apache‚ the Chippewa over the Cheyenne‚ and the Sioux over the Crow‚ Kiowa‚ and Pawnee. By this time‚ the Sioux had become expert horsemen and effectively hunted buffalo on the Spanish beasts. Whites’ diseases were still striking at Native Americans. And‚ whites struck at the massive buffalo herds. Relations
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The Civil War and Its Ending of Slavery This paper is about the civil war and about how it ended slavery with the emancipation proclamation . I will also talk abou the physical loses of the war. The South‚ overwhelmingly agricultural‚ produced cash crops such ascotton‚ tobacco and sugarcane for export to the North or to Europe‚ but it depended on the North for manufactures and for the financial and commercial services essential to trade. Slaves were the largest single investment in the
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Negative and Positive Impact of the Transcontinental Railroad Jeff Neukirch History 101 American History to 1877 Dr. Kimberly Weathers 26 June 2012 The Impacts of the Transcontinental Railroad On May 10‚ 1869 as the “Last Spike” struck by Leland Stanford now connected the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads across the United States at Promontory Summit in the Utah Territory. The transcontinental railroads now complete and America is now destined to move to the forefront of the
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Americans off their lands all because the federal government wanted the U.S. to expand and obtain Manifest Destiny. The main Native American and tribe that stood against the federal government was Sitting Bull‚ Chief of the Sioux and entire Lakota nation. He led a large amount of Sioux warriors in many battles against the American government that were fought over the rights and lands of the Lakota nation. He was against the American government and the forceful ways that they took over Indian lands‚ and
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In 1855‚ when Alexander II‚ son of Nicholas I‚ came to power as Tsar of Russia he was faced by many problems. Russia‚ being the backwards place it was needed reform. The gap between the noble class and the peasant class was enormous and causing problems. The serfs were being treated horribly; the legal system and educational system were in desperate need of changes. There were also governmental issues that needed to be addressed. Russia could use as much reform as possible; Alexander II saw these
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The painting is called The Bulgarian Martyresses‚ painted in 1887. Around a year ago‚ during April to May in 1886‚ Bulgarian created an organization against the Ottoman Empire‚ called April Uprising. More than a thousand of Muslims were killed. The army of Ottoman Empire brutally suppressed the revolt‚ made the Europe and United Sates strongly protest about it. Three weeks after the official report of the American diplomats Eugene Schuyler said:
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interesting tribes.The tribes that live in Canada like the Inuit‚ Haida‚ and the Sioux all have unique stories.The Inuit‚ Haida‚ and the Sioux have their differences and they have things in common‚ I will tell all of those right now. The Inuit‚ Haida‚ and the Sioux have many things in common. All of these tribes live in Canada.(Inuit) Northern Canada‚ (Haida)West coast of British Columbia (Queen Charlotte Islands)‚ (Sioux) Southern Manitoba. They all have a traditional myth (that they like to tell during
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