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    AP US History Chapter 11

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    People Elias Howe and Isaac Singer • Singer’s life was not going well in the beginning • He was penniless • Unsuccessful actor‚ ticket seller‚ carpenter‚ and inventor • By 1860‚ singer grew fabulously wealthy • In 1850‚ he had come upon and quickly improved a sewing machine similar to one patented in 1856 by Elias Howe. • Elias Howe sued Isaac Singer for patent infringement and won in 1854 • Since Singer lost‚ he had to pay Howe patent royalties John Deere • Was

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    between Britain and its American colonies in many ways. It changed things such as cultural groups inhabiting the American colonies and the way the colonies were taxed. Document one clearly shows the difference in the changes of cultural groups‚ before the war mostly French and English with Spanish in the far south inhabited the east of North America which was affected. After the war there were no longer any French dominate areas on the maps I viewed. This was a political change. In document

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    What Is Freedom? Reconstruction 1865-1877 Four days after the meeting Sherman issued Special Field Order 15: It set aside Sea Island and a large area on the South Carolina and Georgia coasts for the settlement of the black families on 40 acre plots of land. He offered them broken mule too. With Slavery dead‚ which black institution strengthened after the war? a. The free blacks’ church b. The secret slave church c. The back family d. The free blacks’ schools e. ALL OF THE ABOVE- Correct

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    Chapter 18 Ap Us History

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    The US’s victory in the Mexican War resulted in renewed controversy over the issue of extending slavery into the territories‚ a possible split in the Whig and Democrat parties over slavery‚ the cession by Mexico of an enormous amount of land to the US‚ and a rush of settlers to new American territory in California 3. The Wilmot Proviso‚ if adopted‚ would have prohibited slavery in any territory acquired in the Mexican War 4. The debate over slavery in the Mexican Cession threatened to split

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    46. Supporters of Populism 47. William Jennings Bryan EXTENDED RESPONSE 1. The time period‚ 1877-1897‚ is known as the “Gilded Age”. Why is it called this? What social‚ economic‚ and political issues were prevalent during this time period. What did the Government‚ farmers‚ and minority groups (women‚ African-Americans) do to alleviate the challenges posed before them? 2. Industrialization began to emerge in America after the Civil War. What developments led to

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    Chapter 4- storyline The Chesapeake said life was nasty‚ brutish‚ and short because there were diseases‚ the climate was unhealthy and life expectancy was less than 20 years of age. Although life was unhealthy for humans‚ it was healthy enough to grow tobacco. They didn’t have anybody to plant the tobacco because life expectancy was short and people were dying because of the harsh diseases‚ so they got indentured servants‚ who were people who voluntarily mortgaged the sweat of their bodies for several

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    Ap Us History Court Cases

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    Marbury v. Madison (1803‚ Marshall). The court established its role as the arbiter of the constitutionality of federal laws‚ the principle is known as judicial review Fletcher v. Peck (1810‚ Marshall). The decision stems from the Yazoo land cases‚ 1803‚ and upholds the sanctity of contracts. McCulloch v. Maryland (1819‚ Marshall). The Court ruled that states cannot tax the federal government‚ i.e. the Bank of the United States; the phrase "the power to tax is the power to destroy"; confirmed the

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    1865  The US Civil War ends with General  Robert E. Lee and his officers surrendering  their swords.    1865­  President Lincoln is assassinated.    1865­ Thirteenth Amendment     1865­ Freedman’s Bureau     1866­ Civil Right’s Act    1866­ Ku Klux Klan created    1866­ National Labor Union    1867­ Military Reconstruction Act    1867­ Grandfather Clause    1867­ Indian Peace Commission     1868­ Fourteenth Amendment    1869­ President Ulysses S. Grant    1870­ Fifteenth Amendment 

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    The films Before Sunrise and Before Sunset are said to represent the so-called slacker genre. Slackers are individuals in society who have no direction and no reasonable expectation or realistic goals in life. This term is mainly used with Generation X’ers (people born between 1961 and 1981) (Casto‚ “What’s A Slacker Movie?”). Slacker movies are films that deal with the ordinary day-to-day life of these people. In Before Sunrise and Before Sunset the characters sense of wandering and the feel of

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    1. In the United States‚ the significant change represented by the Supreme Court’s decisions concerning Dred Scott (1857) and Brown v. Board of Education (1954) best illustrates the * ability of government to revise tax laws. * desire of minority groups to be recognized. * disappearance of prejudice and discrimination. * continuing struggle of African Americans to achieve equality. 2. The United States Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) was important because

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