...Power: 1. Institution of Tariff of 1816 a. Designed to protect America, the first tariff of its kind not intended for revenue gains 2. Madison rejects handouts a. Deemed unconstitutional, Madison rejected the proposal for the handouts that would allow for the new transportation system. The rejection of the handouts led to workarounds involving each state having to venture into these projects unaided federally. 3. Federalism dies a. America by this time has moved past the views of federalism, favoring Republicanism, leading to America being a one-partied nation for years 4. Irish in American politics a. The American political system attracted the Gaelic expatriates, and the Irish gained control of full police forces and, notably, New York’s Tammany Hall Work, Exchange & Technology: 1. Nationalism manifested itself in manufacturing a....
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...society was the availability of an abundant supply of water, as provided by the rivers that helped contribute to the ancient civilization in Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia, the area presently know as Iraq, is referred to as the “land between the rivers” (Hollar, 2011). In approximately 3300 BC, the people known as the Sumerians settled into an area known as the Plain of Shintar. In this area where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers converged, there was an amazing and consistent supply of water, which helped these people develop their way of life (Hollar, 2011). The largely watered area gave way to an abundant amount of rich soil. This soil provided the ability to build houses and create irrigation systems. These tasks required cooperation among the settlers, leading to the growth of their newly established government. The soil also allowed the Sumerians to benefit from the their agriculture. The first grown items were barley, emmer, olives, grapes and flax (Hollar, 2011). Task 1-B The process of the diffusion of tea between early human societies began as early as the first century AD. The origin of tea is not historically clear, although it is said to have originated in China (Saberi, 2010). Initially, tea was used for the treatment of various ailments, such as stomach problems and other illnesses (Saberi, 2010). During the Tang dynasty from 618-907 AD, tea earned the reputation of being refreshing and invigorating. During this time, in the late eighth century a book called The Classic...
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...the West. There were more jobs for the settlers, and there was also more land to explore, claim, and build homes or businesses. America even had new people from other places, such as China and Ireland, that were coming to work for the railroads and the mining companies. There were many things that led to the settlement such as economic, social and cultural, and political factors. Settlement in the West was caused by some economic factors such as railroads being built, gold and silver being discovered, and farming. The building of the railroads brought in the Chinese before the American government established the Chinese Exclusion Act, and they were able to do the work Americans did not want to do and for lower pay than what Americans would have wanted; and the railroad would help bring small businesses that people would want around the railroads....
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...-Look at the settlement patterns and describe the effects on both Europeans and Native Americans. As many early English settlers made their homes along the Northern Atlantic coast, later migrants had to find other land less occupied. Many of the English settlers simply found land down the coast, settling all the way to the fringes of the Spanish settlements in Florida. However, each year more and more Europeans came hoping to settle on land and farm. Many of these people went into the “backcountry.” This was a large and culturally diverse area. The backcountry held many people, some many being English, Native American, or Scots-Irish, all trying to live independent of the British control. Scots-Irish played an important role in the development...
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...In Becoming America: The Revolution Before 1776, Jon Butler argues that aremarkable, yet overlooked, transformation took place in the American coloniesbetween 1680 and 1760. This transformation manifested itself in almost everyaspect of colonial life, and changed the socioeconomic makeup of America forever.This gradual revolution included an ethnic and racial diversity, an increasinglymodernized economy, a growing display of power that would form the foundation of the political system and reveal its elf in the colonists’ material lives, and a display of religious pluralism that is not seen even today in some societies. Butler not onlygives an excellent summary of matters such as immigration and indigenous religion,but also gives credible and convincing reasoning that it was the middle years of thecolonial period that would define America — not the victories and defeats of therevolutionary war. In the years between 1680 and 1760, America had becomemodern (aside from technological advancements that would appear throughout the19 th century.)In Peoples...
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...were, causing the population to grow quickly. By the end of the year, the non-native population of California was estimated at 100,000, (as compared with 20,000 at the end of 1848 and around 800 in March 1848) (in text cite). The onset of new people also caused the once deserted land to grow into communities, which helped to expand and develop the United States. The settlers built the communities with roads, houses, and other important places needed to sustain the town. These grew from small towns to bigger ones as the settlers developed and spread across the land. They not only developed the communities but they integrated different cultures together. People from all over came to California and these settlers had to learn to communicate and coexist with each other. This influx of new people contributed to California becoming an official state of the United States. These actions helped to develop the United States because of environmental resources. The Irish Potato Famine that happened 1845-1849 is another example of environmental resources that brought growth to the United States and diffusion of Ireland. The Irish potato famine occurred because of a few reasons and the landholdings were one of the main issues to cause the famine (in text cite). The other reason for this crisis was the disease that affected the potatoes. These potatoes were what the farmers fed them and their families. So when the potatoes had...
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...In chapter 4 “Toward “The Stony Mountains”” Takaki Explains how were Native American’s land was taken and how they were forced to abandon there homes. In addition, he spelled out how the federal claimed to want to help Indians to survive by accepting the reality of European taking over America, but the laws that was initiated by the government were only pushing native American further west. Takaki wrote, “He supported the efforts of Mississippi and Georgia to abolish Indian tribal units and allow white settlers to take cultivated Indian lands.”(Page 81). The writer was referring to the president Jackson who was elected in 1828. By encouraging white settlers to take over most land in America and the near extinction hunting of buffalo, had to...
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...nineteenth century believed it was their destiny, or fate, to expand over the continent of North America. Many suffered due to Western expansion, alongside a movement built on anti-catholic sentiment and Anglo-Saxon supremacy. Anglo-Saxonism is the concept that the peoples of the British Isles, as well as their descendants in the United States and the British Empire, are naturally "superior" due to their courage, prudence, and, most importantly, their "self-government." (Buenviaje) Due to this, many neighboring countries suffered under these views. In remembrance of the surrounding events, Sarah Quiones Wolfson wrote an article for The Los Angeles Times stating, “Between 1844 and 1849, an influx of Irish immigrants left their ancestral lands to escape religious...
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...Meko Dorsett HIS 200 Dr. Tameka Hobbs 24 August 2012 Chapter 5 Summary – “The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century, 1601–1700 ” Summary: This chapter begins with a portrait of Benjamin Franklin's early life in Boston and his arrival in Philadelphia. This chapter also talks about the growing population and expanding economy in British North America. The most important fact about eighteenth-century colonial America is its remarkable population growth. New England's population increased six fold during the eighteenth century and Natural increase was most responsible for the growth of New England's population during the eighteenth century. Immigrants came to the middle colonies for the perceived economic opportunities. Key Words: Scots-Irish They were a group of restless people who fled their homes in Scotland in the 1600’s to escape poverty and religious oppression. They first relocated to Ireland and then to America in the 1700s. They left their mark on the backcountry of Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia. These areas are home to many Presbyterian churches established by the Scots-Irish. Many people in these areas are still very independent like their ancestors. Olaudah Equiano(1745-1797) African who was sold into slavery and bought his way out-kidnapped as a boy (age 11) from his home he was sold into slavery and sold amongst slave traders many times-he served in the Seven Years' War as a captain's boy and was then sold to a slave trader where he went...
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...on Ireland. Many famous Irish myths stem from stories about Celtic warriors. The current first official language of the Republic of Ireland, Irish comes from Celtic language. At the end of the 8th century and during the 9th century Vikings, from where we now call Scandinavia, began to invade and then settle into and mix with Irish society. The Vikings founded, Dublin,...
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...John Mason was the founder of this colony. After being governor of Portsmouth, he and Sir Ferdinando Gorges, one of the Council leaders, received a grant, in 1622, for the area between the Merrimack and Kennebec rivers, in America. Mason and Gorges split the land. Mason took the territory that lied between the Merrimack and Piscataqua rivers, and named it New Hampshire. Gorges took the remaining land. This New England colony was named New Hampshire in honor of actual Hampshire, England. The colony was founded in 1623. After working as secretary for King James I, George Calvert wanted to create a colony in America. King James died, so his son, King Charles I, became the ruler of England. In 1632, King Charles I approved the charter for George...
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...U.S. & World History Themes One significant environmental factor that has contributed to the development of Egypt’s civilization is the bond between the Nile River and the Egyptian people. The Nile River provides a large amount of water. Soil is a great productivity caused by the Nile. The water levels began to rise each July and the floods reached their full height by the end of August. The flood began to recede, at the end of October, leaving deposits of silt behind (Metz, 1990). This helped flourish the land to produce an abundance of crops for food and trade. This also attracted settlers. With the cultivating success, the Egyptian society evolved rapidly. The Nile River was also the main way to transport goods, trade with outlying communities and to communicate (Hoyt, 2013). It has shaped the life of the Egyptian society. Dr. Robert Whiting describes the geographical process as a way things spread from one place to another (Whiting, PHD, 2013). Among the early human societies, tea is an important part of diffusion. Tea was discovered in China. The ideal climate in the country was perfect for harvesting the tea leaves. Tea can be traced back to 600 BC. It is believed that tea was used for herbal medicinal qualities. Tea became a popular drink during the Tang Dynasty of China (618AD) Tea then spread to Japan in the 6th century, by a priest studying in China. The tea was used for rituals for medicinal use, it is very popular beverage in today Japanese culture....
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...In his book, Baker states that, according to a social anthropologist named Audrey Smedley, the same exact traits used by the English “to depict the Irish as savage in the seventeenth century were used to classify African Americans and Native Americans as savages during the following three centuries” (Baker, 12). This implies that England is the country where the origin of racial categories dates back to. It came to be when the English were in conflict with the Irish. And while it was not a direct contributing factor, this may have eventually led a contributing factor to the idea of categorizing people in the United States which was conquered by many early European settlers. According to the lecture slides, the term “race” in the United States “was a social mechanism invented during the 18th century to refer to those populations brought together in colonial America: the English and other European settlers, the conquered Indian peoples, and those peoples of Africa brought in to provide slave labor” (Stovall, 12). This means that the term is utilized by certain people in the United States to refer to people of different physical, social, and cultural...
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...The Second Great Awakening was a resurgence of religious fervor in Americans beginning in the late-1700s and continuing into the mid-1800s. The shift of focus in religion to camp meetings and saving souls brought to the clergy not only a mission to improve themselves, but to improve their communities as well. The role of women in the home and denial from formal work or wages led to a movement led by women to improve their communities. Drinking was extremely heavy in the early to mid 19th century, with drunkenness causing many problems in factory productivity and an increase in domestic violence. The temperance movement in America worked to curb or completely prohibit alcohol consumption out of a religious motivation, much like the Puritans. The message of community improvement and religious activism made alcohol an easy target for the Second Great Awakening. 4b. Temperance was victorious through the growing political power of the American Temperance Society. Quickly after its establishment in Boston, thousands of local groups formed across the country where people could pledge to stop drinking and spread pamphlets about the sins of alcohol. One major victory for the temperance cause was the Maine Law of 1851, which made it illegal to manufacture and sell alcohol in the state of Maine. Although the laws did not last very long before being repealed, many other states...
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...reformers from both Spain and Portugal had eroded the traditions of the Iberian Catholic monarchies, yet the ideas of Enlightenment and political alternatives to royal sovereignty could be found. The conservative anti-government outlook of the South was thus created as Latin America chose independence over living under monarchal rule. The same applied to the Scot-Irish people who always felt that they had left Ireland against their will, as they had no choice at all. They were mainly Protestant residents from Scotland, who had been settled on land seized from native Irish. They were also discriminated against by the Irish parliament because of their Presbyterian religion instead of following the Irish dominated Anglican Church. The Puritans were a group of religious reformists who had the aim of “purifying” the Anglican Church. This started in the 16th century with John Calvin and began leaving England in 1608. They formed the larger group among the settlers, and were wealthy. By the 1640s, their population had grown to a whopping 10,000 and they spread out forming the present states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine and New Hampshire. They were not only wealthier than the other settlers, but they were also educated and more intelligent. They stressed on literacy with the main aim...
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