America's mission in terms of setting an example, expansion into the west, and by intervention abroad. • Transportation Revolution- early 1800s, development of steamboats, canals, and railroads. Faster transport of people, products, and knowledge. • National Road- First major improved highway in the United States to be built by the federal government. Connection between the Potomac and Ohio Rivers and a gateway to the West for thousands of settlers. • Communication Revolution- Samuel Morse
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Churchill’s ‘Iron Curtain’ speech and the threat of communist takeover in Greece. * No suggestion that the US envisaged any long-term military or political entanglement in Europe beyond the time it took to establish political and economic reconstruction there. * Each side regarded the other as a threat to national security and being expansionist and a global strategic threat. * By September 1946 the emergence of the Cold War was seemingly irreversible. Why Truman introduced
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less resistance than Joseph Brooks faced while trying to wrestle the governorship from Elisha Baxter in 1874. Of the three thousand people involved in the latter battle, two hundred died. After the Civil War, especially starting with the post-Reconstruction period, racism was another widespread problem in Little Rock. The city was subject to much negative media and attention over the Little Rock School District’s integration process, which happens to provide the setting for one of the subplots in
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Project Jacob Honeycutt The capital of Nicaragua is Managua. Three other cities that are important in Nicaragua consist of León, Granada, and Ometepe. Leon is the 2nd largest city in Nicaragua and it is located along the Rio Chiquito river on the west side of Nicaragua. Granada is in western nicaragua and is Nicaragua's 6th most populated city. And lastly, Ometepe which is in the center of Lake Nicaragua. Nicaraguan food includes a mixture of indigenous, Spanish cuisine and Creole cuisine. Since
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As stated by John Winthrop in the 17th Century, Americans have committed the cardinal sin of putting their own good ahead of the common good of the nation. However, Americans of different races, classes, and genders have experienced a variety of obstacles in maintaining their own good. Over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, these obstacles caused conflicting and changing meanings of individualism, community, and freedom according to Foner, Plunkitt, Etulain, Buder, Gilfoyle, Bernstein
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Chapter 23 1. “Waving the bloody shirt”: * a term used during elections for those who fought in the Civil War * many used this to win the election during the reconstruction 2. Tweed Ring: * “Boss” Tweed * Corrupt powerful in machine politics 3. Credit Mobilier Scandal: * Union Pacific railroad company created a construction company to steal money from the government- gov. pays for railroads * Important because government money was stolen 4. Panic of 1873:
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The Civil War played a great part toward the United States future as a united society, however, the role that Tennessee contributed to the Nations outcome was an interesting one yet partly complicated. Tennessee found itself engulfed in a war that would largely affect not only the Tennesseans; but the American civilians, Soldiers and the Country that was to come out of the war that no one could win. The Civil war, tore apart the country by North and South, Unions and Confederates, Northerners were
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new Confederate Territory of Arizona. Efforts to secede in Maryland were halted by federal imposition of martial law, while Delaware, though of divided loyalty, did not attempt it. A Unionist government in western parts of Virginia organized the new state of West Virginia which was admitted to the Union on June 20, 1863. Following South Carolina's unanimous 1860 secession vote, no other Southern states considered the question until 1861, and when they did none were
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the Civil War. They did an overwhelming effort to secure rights for liberated slaves during Reconstruction. The Wade–Davis Bill In 1840, two Radical Republicans, Senator Benjamin from Ohio and Henry Winter Davis of Maryland proposed this bill willing for Reconstruction of the South. It demanded the reliability of 50 percent people of readmitting to the union. Andrew Johnson and his plan for Reconstruction In 1864, Abraham Lincoln nominated Andrew Johnson, who was democratic representative from
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analyze their importance in the Reconstruction era:(3 pts each) b.The assassination of Lincoln – c.The rise of the Ku Klux Klan – d.The impeachment of Andrew Johnson – C. After the Civil War, the final struggle over western lands between whites and native Americans took place. Use 1-2 sentences to define the following terms that have to do with the American West after 1870. ( 2 pts each)
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