IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS FROM For the Record FIVE of the following will appear in Part A of the Final Exam. You will identify and discuss the significance to American history of TWO of them. (10 marks). 1. George Washington - Letters about Shays’ Rebellion (1786) – p.150 -George Washington wrote this letter addressing Shays’ Rebellion and the danger of disunion among the states. -He was writing to tell them that the Republic they had just fought for was in danger of collapsing in on itself. He
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to suffocate american commerce on mississippi) communication and transportation summer of 1788 were primitive‚ US was very rural‚ LESS than one america in 30 lived in places with 8‚000 people or more vast
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Help page for writing a Free Response Question essay (FRQ) and a Document Based Question essay (DBQ). I have found another informative page of how-to-tips here. It will open as a google doc. Please read this as well! The thesis examples are very helpful examples. Example of an 8 essay from The War of 1812 DBQ..clickA Meadows War of 1812 DBQ.docA Meadows War of 1812 DBQ.doc DetailsDownload29 KB . This would have received a 9 if it had more historical outside info to back up the well organized
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II. Eisenhower Administration A. Massive retaliation; nuclear weapons prevented USSR attack. B. Containment policy to prevent war/attack. C. Interstate Highway System to ^ US defense against Communism. D. CIA overthrowing/prevention of spread of Communism. E. Korean Armistice/Peace treaty b/w China/North Korea & US. F. Domino Theory‚ eco/mil aid to Southern Viet to build stable/anti communist state. G. SEATO‚ helped strengthen anti-communist countries. H. Eisenhower Doctrine‚ aid to any
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Cory Bonda 10/10/10 AP US HISTORY Mr. Mangan DBQ #6 Jacksonian Democrats‚ Protectors of the Constitution During the 1830’s and 1820’s the Jacksonain Democrats viewed them selves as the protectors of the Constitution from other parties who had a loose on the constitution. This statement can be viewed as both true and false as the Jacksonian Democrats did not live up to their promises. With the veto of the bank‚ Indian Removal Act‚ Jackson did little to defend the United States Constitution
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pilgrims realizes that God would want al colonist to unite for the general good for the colony (Doc 1). Document 1 shows the audience that the colonist has come a long journey together and the document is used to let the audience know that God wants us to unite and still continue the journey together. They wanted to unite because it will offer a better ordering and preservation that god would want. In the fundamental order connecticut‚ colonist wanted colonist to gather and unite because for require
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This is a CHANGE question!!!!!! How far is it accurate to describe black Americans as second class citizens the years 1945-55? Plan: The BAD part: After WW2‚ even though black soldiers were recognized by European countries as “Black Heroes”‚ segregation in the Armed Forces still existed. Jim Crow Laws were very strict‚ it promoted segregation in Southern states between 1876 and 1965‚ and this was a very long period of time with very‚ very little de facto change. Black people were segregated
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1. The American Revolution didn’t begin just because of one reason‚ but one major reason that really angered the Americans was when the British dumped tons of tea into Boston Harbor in December 1773 as a protest against the tax laws. The brutal British comeback to this act resulted in sending British troops to Boston and closing Boston Harbor‚ causing pressure and rancor to intensify. The British tried to disband the insurgents in Massachusetts by confiscating their weapons and ammunition and arresting
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During the 17th century there were many colonies settled in the New World. One thing most of these colonies had in common is the fact that almost all of them were settled by the English. If one were to focus mostly on the New England and Chesapeake colonies‚ one would find that although they were settled by similar people‚ they ended up splitting for very different reasons. The New England colonies were searching for religious freedom from the Church of England‚ whereas the Chesapeake colonies were
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President Herbert Hoover‚ a Republican‚ had control of the United States from 1929 to 1933‚ the beginning of the economic downfall. Hoover created a laissez-faire government; the government was not involved in everyday business‚ instead it was a very hands off approach and daily life just took its path. When Franklin D. Roosevelt became president in 1933 the economy was now deep in a huge downward spiral‚ and he raised a new Democratic approach to run the government and United States. The United
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