...History has shown a tendency to repeat itself. There is a common thread of fear, accusation, and ultimately loss and distress when people feel threatened by change. Dating back from the colonial times to even present day, humans have shown a habit of trying to solve a problem the same way, time after time. By not learning from history, events recur in different forms, but are caused by the same actions and accusations. Unfortunately, there are almost always people persecuted as a result, who end up experiencing misery for, in this case, such irrational and biased beliefs. It seems inevitable for humans to break into hysterics once they feel intimidation. Nonetheless, history finds its way back to the present. Fear is timeless, and as stated in Source A, “The Salem witch trials of the 1690’s were all about the fear of women and their independence, seen by many in the community as a threat to Puritan values.” This proves that even from the establishment of America, people have felt fear and intimidation when change was foreseen. Similar events develop in later times as Source B confirms, “During the late 1940s and early 1950s, the prospect of communist subversion at home and abroad seemed...
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...1. Throughout the 18th century, many manufacturing processes were improved upon during the Industrial Revolution. For this reason, the inventions ultimately changed the livelihoods of Americans across the United States, making their lives much easier and simpler. One of the most famous inventions that greatly impacted how Americans lived was Howe’s sewing machine, which was later improved upon by Isaac Singer. Because of Singer’s sewing machine, it not only “revolutionized” women’s work, but also allowed women to have more leisure time to themselves. Another invention that influenced how people of the 18th century worked was McCormick’s reaper. Instead of harvesting less than a half of an acre a day, McCormick’s reaper now enabled farmers to harvest more than twelve acres a day. Because of the various inventions, it eventually allowed the displaced workers to work on other jobs within places such as the shoe factories, iron foundries, and textile mills. During the nine years between 1845 and 1854, the population of America dramatically increased due to the large influx of Irish and Germans immigrants. After more than a million people died from the deadly potato epidemic, more than two million Irish people immigrated to the United States in search for high-paying jobs and the American Dream. Though the Irish hoped for a successful future in America, they were instead, greeted resistance, as they were unskilled laborers who often fought for low-paying jobs. By the 1850s, many of...
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...AP European History Objectives: Students will be able to 1. explain why the basic structure of society in eastern Europe became different from that of western Europe in the early modern period 2. describe how eastern absolutism worked and why it came about 3. examine who ruled the absolutist states in Austria and Prussia and how they maintained that power 4. discuss the significance of the Turkish invasion and the world of peasants Opener: Pass up your review questions you completed for homework Active Learning: • Student lead discussions on status of peasants and absolutism in Austria and Prussia Direct Instruction: o Powerpoint “Absolutism in Central Europe” Assessment: • Based on class discussion and your note packet answer the questions on Chapter 17 Homework: • Finish answering the review questions Name:______________________ Block:_____________ Chapter 17: Absolutism in Eastern Europe 1. What were the reasons for the re-emergence of serfdom in eastern Europe in the early modern period? 2. Why would the reign of the Great Elector be regarded as “the most crucial constitutional struggle in Prussian history for hundreds of years?” What did he do to increase royal authority? Who were the losers? 3. Prussia has traditionally been considered one of the most militaristic states in Europe. How do you explain this development? Who or...
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...of Exploration and the Columbian Exchange which dominated the majority of the time period. Meanwhile, the presence of cultural diffusion and cultural borrowing remained a continuity throughout both Asia and Europe. These changes and continuities throughout the period would serve to augment the course of history for many years to come. One of the main distinguishing changes for...
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...Brooke Baker A.P US History Court Cases I. Marbury v. Madison a) Issue: i) Judicial v. Executive and Congressional Power ii) Judicial review/separation of powers b) Background: i) 1803 ii) In his last few hours in office, President John Adams made a series of “midnight appointments” to fill as many government posts as possible with Federalists. One of these appointments was William Marbury as a federal justice of the peace. However, Thomas Jefferson took over as President before the appointment was officially given to Marbury. Jefferson, a Republican, instructed Secretary of State James Madison to not deliver the appointment. Marbury sued Madison to get the appointment he felt he deserved. He asked the Court to issue a writ of mandamus, requiring Madison to deliver the appointment. The Judiciary Act, passed by Congress in 1789, permitted the Supreme Court of the United States to issue such a writ iii) Supreme Court must decide constitutionality of Judiciary Act c) Decision: i) John Marshall declares Judiciary Act unconstitutional ii) The Supreme Court has the right of judiciary review d) Significance: i) Impact of Marshall Court ii) Strengthened the judiciary in relation to other branches of government iii) Allows Supreme Court to interpret the Constitution and declare laws unconstitutional II. McCulloch v. Maryland a) Issue: i) Supremacy v. State Rights ...
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...Alex Skelton November 11, 2013 Period 3 APUSH FRQ#2 Andrew Jackson took office in 1829, becoming the seventh President of the United States. Jackson was known for his toughness and his aggressive behavior, which intimidated most people. Due to his strict interpretation of the Constitution, Jackson supported a small and limited federal government. Jackson’s frugal approach and his strict constructionalist views lead to many domestic issues in the country including the Indian Removal Act, the Nullification Crisis, and the 2nd National Bank of the United States. His positions on the issues lead people to question his ability to lead the country. The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830. The act authorized him to negotiate with the Native Americans in the Southern United States for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their homelands. In the 1820s Georgians began to demand that the United States extinguish the Indian title to lands within their state. While the federal government tried to create inducements to convince the Southeastern Indians to leave their homes, the discovery of gold in Georgia led to more aggressive demands for immediate removal. The election of Andrew Jackson to the presidency in 1828 encouraged Georgia and its land-hungry settlers. Jackson made his position clear in his first message to Congress. He told the Cherokees that they had no constitutional means to resist...
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...[pic] Describe or define each item in your own words: [pic] 1. A Globe: a 3D physical thing that has an image of the world on it. [pic] or [pic] 2. Lines of Latitude: latitude lines travel from east to west and help tell absolute locations. [pic] or [pic] 3. Lines of Longitude: longitude lines travel from north to south and help tell absolute locations. [pic] or [pic] 4. The Grid System: is a type of city plan in which streets run at right angles to each other to form a grid. Seattle is an example of this. Absolute Location: is the exact location of something using latitude and longitude. Relative Location: is the relationship of a place to another place. Not an exact point. [pic] 5. Hemispheres: there are four hemispheres on the Earth. Northern, southern, eastern, and western hemispheres that make up the Earth. [pic] 6. Robinson Projection: shows the entire world on one map. [pic] 7. Mercator Projection: a map where all the parallels of latitude have the same length as the equator [pic] 8. Polar Projection: a map drawn to show arctic and Antarctic areas [pic] 9. Great Circle Route: it is the shortest course between two points on the surface of a sphere. [pic] 10. Compass Rose: a circle showing the direction on a map or chart. Used for direction. [pic] or [pic] 11. Map Key: explains the symbols and keys...
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...In Europe during the colonial time period, there were many factors that drove the sugar trade, such as the increasing demand for sugar, the colonization of the Caribbean Islands, and the rise in slavery. The demand for sugar grew at a high rate as more of it was being produced. The production itself was taking place in the European-colonized Caribbean islands, which had the perfect climate for growing cane sugar. The rise of slavery meant very cheap labor, thus leading to more sugar being produced in less time. The colonization of the Caribbean Islands in Europe supported cane sugar growth, leading to the trading of the cane sugar. The location and the climate of these islands is further talked about in Documents 1 and 2. The British, Spanish, and French had colonized the Caribbean by 1750 (Doc. 1). Because they had this land, they were able to make a profit off of new crops that grew there. Jamaica and Barbados, two of the islands, had ideal climates for the growth of sugar cane (Doc. 2). It helped cane sugar to grow more quickly, which led to more sugar being traded. The running of the sugar plantations is examined in Documents 6 and 7. There were many materials needed in order to run a plantation, including three-hundred slaves, nine different houses, and two-hundred twenty-five animals (Doc. 6). This explains how the overhead costs on the plantation were expensive, and how the fact that slaves cost nothing positively affected that. The sugar plantations require...
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...In sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe, the benefits of European exploration, conquest, and cooperation were being reaped. Goods and spices from various European-controlled establishments from around the world were being traded, which lead to an increase in quality of life for the European peoples, a greater demand for export and goods to be traded, and it sent the economies of these European nations soaring. The European nations that were the most successful at the time were Holland, Spain and England. Due to the competitive nature of these nations, and their quest to obtain gold and silver (a common international currency at the time), the leaders of said nations looked for ways to utilize their legislative power to maximize profits in trade and increase their nation’s influence and power. The principle of a government regulating domestic industry and international trade in order to benefit a nation is known as Mercantilism. Mercantilistic policies strengthened the nation’s economy in which it was implemented by bringing about a favorable balance of trade, and consequently expanded the mercantilistic nation’s power and influence. An example of this could be when Queen Elizabeth I of England implemented Mercantile policies in England’s textile industry in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. For some time, English merchants exported wool to the rest of Europe, where it was weaved. In the 1500s, however, a domestic textile industry in England emerged; Merchants...
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...1) The Mecca was known as both an important religious and economic center because it quickly reached prosperity and they followed Muhammad's teachings and became Muslims. 2) The Ka'ba is an example of the connection between Muslims, Christians, and Jews because it contained idols and connected the shrine with stories that the Jews and Christians were also familiar with. Also, they all believed that Abraham was the builder of Ka'ba. 3) A Muslim is different from an Arab, is that a Muslim is one submits themselves to the will of God, while an Arab is a member of Semitic people, originally from the Arabian peninsula. 4) It is accurate to state that Mohammad shared similarities with Jesus Christ and Augustus Caesar. Mohammad shared similarities with Jesus Christ like both teaching and spreading the word of God. They both had many followers, and were able to convert people into their respective religion. Mohammad shared similarities with Augustus Caesar like both being successful in getting their followers to respect the, by being fair and a good ruler to their followers. 5) The connection that exists between the word submission and the terms Islam and Muslim is that the Islam and Muslim faiths were both under the control and believed on the words of God and his teachings. So in order to do so, they had to submit to God. 6) To Muslims, Mecca was more important than Medina. This is because Muhammad, the teacher to Muslims, was born in Mecca. Also, Mecca assumed control of trade...
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...In the mid-seventeenth century, England, France, and Spain were all competing for colonies and trade routes along the world. While each country had been sending explorers out since the last fifteenth century, it wasn’t until the mid-seventeenth that colonization really started. All three of these countries were trying to become not only the wealthiest but the most powerful as well. And no other place promised as much wealth or power as the New World did. Each of these three countries had the same basic motivation for why they wanted to colonize the New World; expansion, power, and most importantly wealth. The differences came about in where these three countries chose to create colonies, and then how those colonies would be populated and governed. These differences were reflections of the countries themselves, and played the biggest role in the success or failure of the colonies themselves. England sent colonists mostly made up of the middle class, farmers, and tradesmen. They found their homes on the Atlantic coast. Early on these colonies were limited to just modern day Virginia and Massachusetts, but soon spread all the way down the coast and further inland. The French colonies took a slightly different approach. Sending almost entirely fur traders and merchants, along with a few missionaries, most of their colonies were just trading outposts primary located in Canada and then later in Louisiana. Spain then took a drastically different approach, sending only conquistadors...
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...To demonstrate their rejection of the Mongols, the Ming emperors a. severed relations with the Middle East and Central Asia and closed the borders to foreigners. b. built the Great Wall of China and deported all Mongols. c. changed the official language from Mongolian to Chinese. d. marched all the Mongols to the Korean border. e. formed close ties with the Manchu instead. a The emperor Yongle improved the imperial complex built by the Mongols called the a. Imperial House. b. Forbidden City. c. Heavenly Gates. d. Dragon's Court. e. Red Square. b Because Mongols controlled access to the Silk Road after the overthrow of the Yuan, the emperor Yongle put an emphasis on a. trade by ships. b. overland trade through India and Arabia. c. trade through Buddhist monasteries. d. trans-Pacific exploration. e. none of these; trade decreased because people could not afford to travel by Silk Road and pay Mongol tariffs. a Zheng He's primary accomplishment was a. converting barbarians to Islam. b. discovering new lands in the East. c. bringing wealth to China. d. acquiring Ming tributary states. e. discovering the Philippines. d Why didn't Ming China develop seafaring for commercial and military gain? a. The emperor feared outside contacts and influence. b. The peasantry were a strong voting lobby and refused to support it. c. The merchants were opposed to losing their domestic markets. d. The Mongol threat from the north took priority over...
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...As America entered the twentieth century, it was a nation transformed by immigration, industrialization, and urbanization. As the nation abandoned its agricultural past and embraced its factory-driven future, tremendous tensions gripped its society. These challenges led in part to the rise of the progressive movement, which sought to strengthen the American economy and political structure. The progressives were successful to a great extent in improving urban life and eliminating much of the political corruption which plagued the nation. An important area of reform was urban living conditions. Cities were constantly growing due to the increasing availability of jobs. This led to a need of lots of housing, quickly. It was built cheaply and most areas in the city turned into tenements and slums where crime went unpunished. Many families were crammed into the small buildings, most of which were unsanitary. Thus, disease quickly spread. However, the industrial revolution the nation experienced around the early 1900s led to improved city housing. This is because of the new technology that let richer people move farther out of the city and ride back in on the new automobiles and trolley systems. Since the wealthy moved out, a larger amount of poorer people could move in. Although there were no great reform movements due to the changing technology urbanization underwent a major reform. Another key area of reform was the Government reform. Laissez-faire capitalism overtook the nation...
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...Men and women have always been different, each having there own strengths and weaknesses, never the less each gender has played a pivotal role in the development of the world we have today. Even though Gender equality has made huges leaps in progress over human history, it is shown in early civilizations the vast differences in the treatment and expectations of men and women. In this essay three primary source documents will be reviewed and analyzed, to clearly pinpoint the key similarities and differences regarding gender relations. Each source document will be relating to a different civilization at a different time. It is important to note that even in similar historical time frames gender roles ranged greatly from one civilization or empire...
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... More and more silver entered the Chinese economy through the Manila trade, which became a main business hub for trade between south Chinese merchants and the Spanish. When the Spanish conquered the Aztecs and Incas, they mined for silver (mostly) and gold, most all of which was sent toward China for manufactured goods. Some historians have suggested that one-third to one-half of all the silver mined in the Americas went to pay for the much demanded Chinese porcelain. It is interesting to think that a country which turned its focus inward, with the intent on keeping the rest of the world out, became the center of it. While many people, including myself, first think of the discovery of North America as the primary focus at this point in history, it is important to realize that the progress there only aided in reinforcing the “center”. All arrows were pointing toward China. ...
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