Megan Kight US History before 1877 Mid-Term 1. Henry the Navigator was the prince/king of Portugal. His mother convinces him to take over Portugal. He starts with Morocco. He decided to invest in the University. He studies sailing. People are now attracted to learn about sailing as well. He goes to Portugal‚ and makes his way down to Africa. He learns longitude. Two merchants go to Ethiopia to find Prestor John. They run across Muslim merchants that tell them they can get around Africa
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Unit 1 – 1491-1607 Unit 2 – 1607-1754 Unit 3 – 1754 – 1800 Unit 4 – 1800 – 1848 Unit 5 – 1844 – 1877 Unit 6 – 1865 – 1898 Unit 7 – 1890 – Unit 8 – Unit 9 – Is History True? Notes Responses History is a complex process that combines historical facts and a historian’s interpretation to those facts The Uses of History Supplicants seek only reassuring confirmation as they prepare to act. The usable past demanded of history consists of the data to flesh out a formula. The demand
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an aristocracy similar to Virginia Colony divided – northern area was mostly small‚ backwoods farmers from V.A. Did not rely on slaves Much more populist than proprietors intended 1729 – colony divided into North and South Carolina Restoration Colonies – New York 1664 – James‚ Duke of York – granted land between Connecticut and Delaware Rivers 1664 – English navy takes New Netherland from Dutch – James names it New York 1685 – 30‚000 people – power divided between old Dutch estates‚ wealthy
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troubling our inhabiting and planting‚ are not to be feared; but that they shall have cause both to fear and love us that shall inhabit with them. They are a people clothed with loose mantles made of Deer skins‚ & aprons of the same round about their middles; all else naked; of such a difference of statures only as we in England; having no edge tools or weapons of iron or steel to offend us withal ‚ neither know they how to make any: those weapons that they have‚ are only bows made of Witch hazel ‚
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1800’s Transportation In order to create regional‚ national and international markets‚ strong commerce‚ trade and transportation are necessary. During the 1800’s‚ social change became more prominent in different areas of the country such as the South and Midwest. As economic prosperity grew‚ the need for new and more efficient means of transportation grew as well. Through the development of new transportation technologies such as canals and railroads‚ America saw a large increase in the monetary
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Question #1 History of music from 1650 to 1800 can be described by three major periods‚ the middle Baroque‚ the late Baroque / early Classical‚ and Classical eras. The middle Baroque can be described as a time of developing and standardizing musical forms‚ styles‚ and conventions‚ and then obeying those conventions in the creation of new music. The second era found the undoing of these conventions in two important areas‚ prompting the end of the Baroque and beginning of the Classical era. The final
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Over the years of 1877 to the 1900’s many changes were occurring. The Southern cities were changing faster than anyone could’ve imagined with new transportation‚ growing industries‚ and the end of slavery. Not to mention‚ the changing role of women. In the New South by the year 1880‚ steel and iron mills were progressing across the North. Railroad construction was fast paced in the 1880s. Comparing 1880 to 1890 the tracks had doubled with Texas and Georgia having the biggest growth. In 1886‚ an
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States emerged from a virulent‚ intense‚ and inhumane civil war and evolved into a new nation during this period. This transition was the culmination of political‚ economic‚ social‚ and cultural movements which transformed the nation. E Pluribus Unum - out of many United States‚ one nation; the United States was forged in the cauldron of these revolutions." -Arnold Toynbee‚ A Study of History The above statement is one that seems to be very true when looking back upon the history of the United
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History of the United States from 1800 to 1900 MW 1:30pm-3:20pm Instructor：Knittel YuChuan Zhou This this personal introduction. The most important thing in life is a course to know yourself. After entering university‚ entered into a new environment -- totally different from my hometown of an environment. Whenever I encounter problems in interpersonal‚ my mind emerge out of such a question: what the hell am I how? After repeatedly the feeling of frustration‚ I found that I own a lot of changes
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American trading network to steer them away from the British * Lewis & Clark set a precedent for many government-financed expeditions * The government published results of these expeditions and photos came after the Civil War * Land Ordinance of 1785 told how Federal Government sold lands * Federal Government sold lands cheap and gave land away to Veterans of 1812 EXPANSION AND INDIAN POLICY * Eastern Indian tribes were being removed from their homelands to Indian Territory *
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