TExES I Texas Examinations of Educator Standards Preparation Manual 133 History 8–12 Copyright © 2006 by the Texas Education Agency (TEA). All rights reserved. The Texas Education Agency logo and TEA are registered trademarks of the Texas Education Agency. Texas Examinations of Educator Standards, TExES, and the TExES logo are trademarks of the Texas Education Agency. This publication has been produced for the Texas Education Agency (TEA) by ETS. ETS is under contract to the Texas Education
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During the Second World War, the USSR and the USA, the two great nations in the 1940s united each other to defeat their common enemy, Nazi Germany. Their alliance was however ‘unnatural’ as both countries had conflicting ideologies, capitalism vs. communism and both wanted to spread their power and control in the world. Their incompatible ideologies from the start together with their troubled relationship since 1918 when the west intervened on the Russian civil war on behalf of the White Army, created
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AP* World History Study Guide and Graphic Organizers – Unit 5: The Modern World, 1914 CE – present 1. World War I Students are required to know the causes, major events, and consequences of WWI 1) Causes a) Imperialism i) No new lands to expand into – some nations didn’t have many colonies (Germany, Italy) ii) Rivalries as nations competed for colonies iii) Sometimes armed conflict in colonial lands for control over resources b) Nationalism i) Pride in one’s nation, want one’s nation to
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and were proud to call themselves Englishmen. Several English wars resulted in bloodshed in America: Queen Anne’s War, King George’s War, and the French and Indian War. Rebellions also occurred occasionally, e.g. Bacon’s Rebellion. Taking into account all of this, the American colonies prospered under British rule and existed in relative peace and harmony with their mother country. Beginning after the end of the French and Indian War, the status quo began to change. In the thirteen years from 1763
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|What is the supreme law of the land? | |The Constitution | |What does the Constitution do? | |It sets up the government
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Internet. Unfinished Business The Civil War ended in 1865 with the North defeating the South and, as a result of the defeat, the South had been removed from the Union. At the time our president was Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln needed to come up with a plan to bring the South back into the Union. This period after the war came to be known as “The Reconstruction”. During the reconstruction many events took place that would change the way the present day U.S. is. There
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The Civil War was a very tragic time and event in the United States history. It caused extreme amounts of damage in the South. Leaving cities in ruins, and families without homes or the ability to support one another, or even themselves for that fact. People had no food, no clothes, and no shelter. Something had to be done to rebuild this disaster, but with every plan always comes a failure at some point. That is what I am going to be discussing with you today. The failures and successes
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state of change (Shelley). The most common form of art is Painting, and one of the greatest paintings in the world is Guernica, which was painted by Pablo Picasso in 1937. It is his portrayal of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish civil war. Inside this painting, there are many meanings, some of which have not been discovered yet. Pablo Picasso was born in 1881 in Malaga. He had four children from three different wives (Biography Vid). He was a Spanish painter, draughtsman, and
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Day, celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November, has been an annual tradition in the United States since 1863, when during the Civil War; President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of thanksgiving to be celebrated on Thursday, November 26. As a federal a popular holiday in the U.S., Thanksgiving is one of the major holidays of the year. The event that Americans commonly call the "First Thanksgiving" was celebrated to give thanks to God for helping the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony
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states, markets, citizens and organisations through which collective interests at a global level are articulated. Global governance developed because of globalization which is taking place in the world now and which has led to a restructing of the global order, meaning that events and decisions made outside sovereign states increasingly influence the outcome of political processes within sovereign states. This is the reason why nowadays a lot of issues are decided or determined at a transnational
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