Unit 10: The Gilded Age Economic & social changes 1865 – 1920 Part one: The Last Frontier The Final settlement of the Trans-Mississippi West Historiography THE FRONTIER THESIS: Frederick Jackson Turner The Significance of the Frontier in American History – July 12‚ 1893 1890 Census – no more defined frontier line; had pockets of settlement spread out Turner Thesis: spirit and success of US is directly tied to westward expansion; a turning point in American Identity American Identity:
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T he Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is a political and economic anachronism. Twenty-five years ago the establishment of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico was the official U.S. response to the worldwide process of decolonization. It was the "showcase of democracy" for colonial peoples and underdeveloped countries‚ the U.S. model of how a country could pull itself out of poverty "by its own bootstraps" through an intimate political and economic relationship with the United States. By 1977‚ the Commonwealth
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Lesson 1 Notes Causes of the Civil War -Slavery-gave South a great amount of economic and political power in the nation -Northern economy demanded cheap labor-drew nation’s attention of slavery -Lincoln’s election precipitated the secession of Southern States and the creation of the Confederacy Competing Notions of Freedom -North wanted to end slavery and also punish the south -they wanted to economize the South so they could provide the North with raw materials (cotton‚ lumber) for their
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New York City The first native New Yorkers were the Lenape‚ an Algonquin people who hunted‚ fished and farmed in the area between the Delaware and Hudson rivers. Europeans began to explore the region at the beginning of the 16th century--among the first was Giovanni da Verrazzano‚ an Italian who sailed up and down the Atlantic coast in search of a route to Asia--but none settled there until 1624. That year‚ the Dutch West India Company sent some 30 families to live and work in a tiny settlement
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Louisiana Sheriff Elections By Norman Clark‚ M.P.A. PhD Student‚ Political Science Department Louisiana State University 307 Stubbs Hall‚ Baton Rouge‚ Louisiana 70803-5433 225.287.6547 Nclar11@LSU.edu Paper was presented at the 93rd Annual Meeting of the Southwester Social Science Association‚ March 27- 30‚ 2013‚ New Orleans‚ Louisiana. This paper is a section of a dissertation in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctorate of Philosophy in the Department
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Colonial America 1607-1763 Prince Henry The Navigator – Portuguese prince who encouraged navalmen to explore the African coast for weak spots in the muslim defense‚ started famous navigation school in Portugal Christopher Columbus (1451 – 1509) – Italian navalman who sailed under the Spanish flag‚ in october 12 1492 sailed the ocean blue‚ discovered the islands off the Bahamas‚ discovery marked the beginning of the exploration and the conquest of the new world Amerigo Vespucci – Italian navigator
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Bold Experiments in an Era ofIndustrialization‚1877–1929 This part covers the following chapters in Henretta et al.‚ America’s History‚ Seventh Edition: Chapter17 The Busy Hive: Industrial America at Work‚ 1877–1911 Chapter 18 The Victorians Meet the Modern‚ 1880–1917 Chapter 19 “Civilization’s Inferno”: The Rise and Reform of Industrial Cities‚ 1880 –1917 Chapter 20 Whose Government? Politics‚ Populists‚ and Progressives‚ 1880 –1917 Chapter 21 An Emerging World Power‚ 1877–1918 Chapter 22 Wrestling
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AP Exam Vocab • Cahokia – One of the largest urban centers created by Mississippian people‚ containing 30‚000 residents in 1250. • Transoceanic migrations- a population migration across oceans • Beringia- a subcontinent bridging Asia and North America‚ named after the Bering Straits. • Athapascan- A people that began to settle the forests in the northwestern area of North America around 5000 B.C.E. • Clovis tradition-A powerful new and sophisticated style of tool making‚
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AP Notes: Unit 6-The Gilded Age Part 16: The Last West and the New South (1865-1900) This chapter details the goings on in the South and the West following the Civil War‚ including the Jackson Frontier Thesis. A. The West: Settlement of the Last Frontier. Following the War‚ many Americans now turned to settling the West‚ as the land between the Mississippi and the pacific had been referred to as the “Great American Desert.” Why? Gold in California‚ fishing and farming in Oregon‚ etc. Although
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Document Type: Critical essay‚ Interview Full Text: COPYRIGHT 2001 Gale Group‚ COPYRIGHT 2007 Gale‚ Cengage Learning Full Text: [(interview date 1 January 1996) In the following interview‚ Kreilkamp provides an overview of Kincaid ’s life and literary career upon the publication of The Autobiography of My Mother‚ and Kincaid comments on her relationship with the New Yorker‚ publishing‚ and gardening.] A teenage girl in the mid-1960s abandons her home on Antigua‚ a tiny island
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