....S. History ©2014 Unit 3—Expansion and Reform (1815-1850) 1. Why was the primary characteristic of the “Era of Good Feelings” (1815-1819) after the War of 1812? 2. How did the Industrial Revolution affect the nation’s economy?. 3. How was nationalism reflected in domestic and foreign policies during the Era of Good Feelings? 4. Describe the sectional issues and events that brought an end to the Era of Good Feelings. 5. What was “Jacksonian Democracy”? 6. Describe the impact of federal government’s Indian policies under Andrew Jackson. 7. What issues impacted American politics while Andrew Jackson was president? 8. What was the Second Great Awakening and what effect did it have on social movements in the mid-1800s? 9. Identify the major reform movements of the mid-1800s. 10. What effect did the women’s rights movement have? 11. Identify significant figures in the abolitionist movement and describe their efforts to end slavery. 12. How did territorial expansion into Texas lead to conflict and change? 13. Explain how “Manifest Destiny” resulted in westward expansion. 14. Describe how the Mexican War resulted in increased sectionalism. 15. Which territorial acquisitions were a result of the Mexican War? Flashcards: http://www.quia.com/jg/2615676.html Words to know 1. nationalism 2. protective tariff 3. internal improvement 4. sectionalism 5. doctrine 6. suffrage 7. patronage 8. nullification 9. reform ...
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...Changes in the U.S. Sobek Khufu HIST105-1202A-05 – U.S. History Abstract With America’s new found independence; territories had to be defined. As the country’s population grew; there also grew a need for the expansion of the land mass and all of the natural resources that come along with it. Territorial expansion became an integral part of the growth of the United States and the foundation of the country we see today. Keywords: Territorial expansion, country, natural resources, history The territorial expansion event that I have chosen to write about is the Louisiana purchase of 1803. The actual purchase of the state of Louisiana happened more by chance than by intention. What began as an attempt to regain access to navigate the lower Mississippi river evolved into one of the surprise territorial expansions in United States history. In reaction to Spain suddenly retracted an agreed upon treaty that allowed the United States to have access to the lower Mississippi river in 1802; the then President of the United States sent James Monroe to Paris to join with Robert Livingston to assist in negotiate the purchase of New Orleans and West Florida from the French. This maneuver was intended to secure control of the Mississippi, which was a vital trader route. However, as fortune would have it; Napoleon Bonaparte, who by this time had become a great military leader; was preparing for an impending war in Europe and needed a financial war chest. So, in April of 1803, Napoleon...
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...Week 2 Appendix B Causes of the Revolution HIS115 / HIS 115 / (VERSION 3) / Week 2 Discussion Question HIS115 / HIS 115 / (VERSION 3) / Week 3 Appendix C Outcomes of the Revolution HIS115 / HIS 115 / (VERSION 3) / Week 3 Discussion Question HIS115 / HIS 115 / (VERSION 3) / Week 4 Constitution Paper HIS115 / HIS 115 / (VERSION 3) / Week 4 DQs HIS115 / HIS 115 / (VERSION 3) / Week 5 Appendix D Two Party Politics HIS115 / HIS 115 / (VERSION 3) / Week 5 War of 1812 HIS115 / HIS 115 / (VERSION 3) / Week 5 DQs HIS115 / HIS 115 / (VERSION 3) / Week 6 19th-Century Ideas HIS115 / HIS 115 / (VERSION 3) / Week 6 DQs HIS115 / HIS 115 / (VERSION 3) / Week 6 Andrew Jackson’s Presidency HIS115 / HIS 115 / (VERSION 3) / Week 7 The Western Experience HIS115 / HIS 115 / (VERSION 3) / Week 7 Discussion Question HIS115 / HIS 115 / (VERSION 3) / Week 8 Lincoln and Slavery HIS115 / HIS 115 / (VERSION 3) / Week 8 Territorial Expansion and Slavery HIS115 / HIS 115 / (VERSION 3) / Week 8 Discussion Question HIS115 / HIS 115 / (VERSION 3) / Week 9 Civil War Paper HIS115 / HIS 115 / (VERSION 3) / Week 9 Discussion Question HIS115 / HIS 115 / (VERSION 3) / Week 9 Civil War Presentation Powerpoint Activity mode aims to provide quality study notes and tutorials to the students of HIS 115 v3 COMPLETE CLASS in order to ace their studies. HIS 115 V3 COMPLETE CLASS To purchase this visit here: http://www.activitymode.com/product/his-115-v3-complete-class/ Contact us at: SUPPORT@ACTIVITYMODE...
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...Given the relative weakness of the 16th century Europe, how do we account for the fact that European nations came to dominate most of the world by the end of the 19th century? In the 16th century, majority of the population in Europe was living in poverty. Europe paled in comparison to the great empires of the Ming, Ottoman and Mughal. Though Portuguese and Spanish represented Europe civilization to set sail and explore new lands in search of new settlements and viable trade routes, the Chinese empire lead an expedition of a massive scale larger than ever known earlier than that time with a different motive. Such expeditions imply these major empires could be suitable candidates for world domination. However, they became insignificant in the world politics arena due to internal declines and isolation. Strong and impregnable as they seem, these great empires had their weaknesses and suffered downfalls due to inefficient government and inadequate resources. The Ottoman Empire has expanded beyond what its resources could sustain. Coupled with widespread corruption and incompetent leadership, the empire’s armies suffered and became vulnerable to its Christian and nomadic rivals. The Mughal empire leader Aurangzeb, expanded his empire in name of purifying Islam hence weakening alliances with Hindu princes and disrupted the already fragmented social order. With focused expansion of territory using obsolete armies and tactics, the empire was drained of its wealth and fell when civil...
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...much of Asia by sending settlers to populate the land or by taking control of governments. The first colonies were established in the Western Hemisphere by the Spanish and Portuguese in the 15th – 16th centuries. The Dutch colonized Indonesia in the 16th century, and Britain colonized North America and India in the 17th – 18th centuries. Later, British settlers colonized Australia and New Zealand. Colonization of Africa only began in earnest in the 1880s, but by 1900 virtually the entire continent was controlled by Europe. The colonial era ended gradually after World War II; the only territories still governed as colonies today are small islands. http://www.answers.com/topic/colonialism#ixzz1lYMQdYfY http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonialism Colonialism is the establishment, maintenance, acquisition and expansion of colonies in one territory by people from another territory. It is a process whereby the metropole claims sovereignty over the colony, and the social structure, government, and economics of the colony are changed by colonizers from the metropole. Colonialism is a set of unequal relationships between the metropole and the colony and between the colonists and the indigenous population. The colonial period normally refers to the late 15th to the 20th century, when European states established colonies on other continents. During this time, the...
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...1) Why did China become weaker in the late 19th century? Be specific and provide details to support your answer. China became weaker in the 19th century because of British control. There was a war between China and Britain over the opium trade, called the Opium Wars. Britain then forced China to sign The Treaty of Nanking (aka the Unfair Treaty), which forced China to pay Britain $18 million for destroyed opium and war costs, give Britain Hong Kong and 5 other treaty ports, tariff all British goods at 5%, and force China to sell the same thing to Britain as it does with other nations. The Chinese fought against Britain and French, but it only made the country weaker and poorer. There was an unsuccessful rebellion, Taiping Rebellion, that severely hurt China. 2) Why was Japan weak in the 19th century, and why did Commodore Perry's arrival spark a crisis in the shogunate? Be specific and provide details to support your answer....
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...always seemed to be controversial among the new American nation, but during the 19th century westward expansion seemed to have a stirring effect, as it was seen as unconstitutional and a mistake to the half the people, particularly the federalists. Moreover, Americans believed that buying more land would entangle the U.S. in foreign affairs, a warning given by George Washington in his farewell address, and cause strain on the original 13 eastern states. However, government officials saw land as a power source and a way to expand the empire and economy. Both supporting and opposing sides influenced the ideas of territorial expansion and caused a changed in federal policy resulting in a new nation stretching from [present...
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...the dawn of the eighteenth Century the Ottomans, while perceived by the Western powers to be in decline, were still a moving force in world politics. The heart of the Ottoman Empire homelands was strategically located at the crossroads of the great trade routes of the medieval world. Situated near the convergence of the Silk Roads, the Indian Ocean Routes, the Volga, the Danube, and the Mediterranean the Ottomans enjoyed political, economic and social influence over a large portion of Eastern Europe, Africa, and the Middle East The many provincial governments and diplomatic outposts in the countries controlled by the Ottomans functioned as effective and essential arms of the central bureaucracy. Encompassing vast swaths of territory, the...
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...economic dominance in the 19th and 20th centuries, however its precise meaning continues to be debated by scholars. For example, cartographers of the nineteenth century used cartography to further fuel imperialism. As scholar Bassett notes, "Maps were used in various ways to extend European hegemony over foreign and often unknown territory."[4] It is better to use terms such as cultural or economic imperialism to describe some of these less formal types of domination.[5] Some writers, such as Edward Said, use the term more broadly to describe any system of domination and subordination organised with an imperial center and a periphery.[6] From a Marxist perspective, imperialism is a natural feature of a developed capitalist nation state as it matures into monopoly capitalism. In Lenin's work Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, he observed that as capitalism matured in the Western world, economies shifted away from manufacturing towards banking, finance, and capital markets, as production was outsourced to the empires' colonies. Lenin concluded that competition between Empire and the unfettered drive to maximize profit would lead to wars between the empires themselves, such as the contemporary First World War, as well as continued future military interventions and occupations in the colonies to establish, expand, and exploit less developed markets for the monopolist corporations of the empires. Imperialism is defined as "an unequal human and territorial relationship,...
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...My eyes sank into the American Progress painting during class, looking at every little detail of the painting. The painting depicts Native Americans running away from the angelic-like figure. I wonder how Manifest Destiny started and what lasting effects it had. Manifest Destiny had many lasting effects on the U.S. Not only did Manifest Destiny shape the territorial expansion the U.S. had in North America, but it also came with the loss of cultural diversity and environmental degradation. When historians or teachers talk about Manifest Destiny, they praise it and only look at the positive things Manifest Destiny did. Manifest Destiny is a dark piece of the United States' history, Manifest Destiny removed Native Americans from their land, sometimes...
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...the theory that persons, groups, and races are subject to the same laws of natural selection as Charles Darwin had perceived in plants and animals in nature. According to the theory, which was popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the weak were diminished and their cultures delimited, while the strong grew in power and in cultural influence over the weak. Social Darwinists held that the life of humans in society was a struggle for existence ruled by “survival of the fittest,” a phrase proposed by the British philosopher and scientist Herbert Spencer. The social Darwinists—notably Spencer and Walter Bagehot in England and William Graham Sumner in the United States—believed that the process of natural selection acting on variations in the population would result in the survival of the best competitors and in continuing improvement in the population. Societies, like individuals, were viewed as organisms that evolve in this manner. The theory was used to support laissez-faire capitalism and political conservatism. Class stratification was justified on the basis of “natural” inequalities among individuals, for the control of property was said to be a correlate of superior and inherent moral attributes such as industriousness, temperance, and frugality. Attempts to reform society through state intervention or other means would, therefore, interfere with natural processes; unrestricted competition and defense of the status quo were in accord with biological selection....
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...The United States of America (commonly called the United States, the U.S., the USA, America, and the States) is a federal constitutional republic consisting of fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Pacific and Caribbean. At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km2) and with over 314 million people, the United States is the third- or fourth-largest country by total area, and the third-largest by both land area and population. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. Paleoindians migrated from Asia to what is now the United States mainland around 15,000 years ago. The descendent and isolated Native American population was greatly reduced by European contact, primarily by disease brought by explorers and traders. European colonization occurred, beginning about 1600, chiefly from England. The United States emerged from thirteen British colonies located along the Atlantic seaboard, which developed their own...
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...capitalist countries of the world in the recent past. Globalization in particular has led to the birth and expansion of neo-colonialism. Puerto Rico forms the most significant example of this movement. First, it was a colony of Spain for about 4 centuries. However, through war, the country managed to kick out their colonial masters in 1898. Thereafter, the United States, a modern colonial master was obtained. As a consequence, struggle for independence and nationalism of the country has been frustrated by the hegemonic power created by the United States. Further, the economy of the country has been extremely downtrodden and this forms the focus of the paper. On 3rd May 2017, Puerto Rico was officially declared the largest bankrupt nation by the public bond market of the United States. As stated by Gonzalez (2017), the economy of the country has reached a breaking point with a debt of $123 billion owed by the government and public corporations to the bondholders. This is ironical for a country that has been dubbed by many as a perfect tourist destination. The poverty level in the country...
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...Precise: The Jeffersonian Era Manifest Destiny was an era of territorial expansion of the United States, which started from the end of War of 1812 to the begging of the American Civil War 1860. It was the belief that the United State was destined to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. It was originally a political phrase of the 19th Century, first used by Jacksonian Democrats to promote the invasion of the Western United States. When America decided to initiate the westward expansion the land was not owned by America. A majority of the land was owned by the British, and the Native Americans. In order to receive this land Americans needed to drive the Native Americans and the British out of the territory. This would mean that a war must be fought and many lives lost just so that the American people can own more land. The Americans forced some of the Native American tribes to relocate hundreds of miles away in a new land which was foreign to them. The journey was a very tough one and there was no promise of a good life in the new location. Many Native Americans died on this journey and some even died after they were settled in the new lands. The Oregon territory was owned by Britain and America after the War of 1812. In order for the Americans to own the Oregon territory they must first eradicate the British. America made a treaty with Britain in order to be the sole owner of this land. America acted very aggressive in obtaining this treaty. The eradication...
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...Power and the Balance of Power The first concept that we will discuss is power, and its related concept, the balance of power. Power is an important concept in global relations, and a fundamental idea within the school of thought known as Realism. Realism is based on the assumption of anarchy, or the absence of a central order, as the key description of global relations. This is supposedly a self-help system, in which states compete with each other for power. Power is defined as the ability to get someone to change their behaviour in a direction desired by a stronger actor. The idea of power and the balance of power go back only 300 years, but there is evidence, according to Realists, that the Ancient Greeks and Romans pursued power politics. The idea of the balance of power is that interstate interaction will be stable if states, operating under Realist principles, seek to balance each other in their relations. By acting prudently, "carefully, with foresight, avoiding rash acts," no state will seek to upset the system. Each state will check the others, and no state will grow powerful enough to overthrow the others. A state that seeks domination will be defeated, so no state will attempt this. The classical balance of power operated only under a certain number of conditions: 1. There were a large number of states for alliance formation. 2. There were clear geographic confines in the system e.g. the European continent. 3. There must be flexibility/freedom...
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