Question: Was the Constitution written to be a landmark document or was it simply a compilation of compromises? After the American Revolution had ended in 1783‚ the states were left in a vulnerable position. Although the states had won the war and gained their independence‚ there was still a huge war deficit‚ fear of invasion from England or other countries like France or Spain‚ a virtually non-existent army of 600 men‚ no strong trade route to bring in money‚ Indian hostilities and a very weak
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In America there were many reasons that colonists on both sides of the issue of taxation had for whether taxes on the American people were necessary and justified. In the reading about the colonist’s responses to the stamp act of 1765‚ both sides were represented. The people who were in favor of the stamp act felt that America had created a burden on the British government and that they needed to help lessen that burden on England. They also felt that since the government had protected the colonists
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The Triumphant Side of the American Revolution The American Revolution was a war between the thirteen colonies of America and the British that took place from 1775 to 1783. The colonies‚ which had not yet been unified‚ wanted freedom from the domineering British and their "taxation without representation". This saying‚ coined up twenty years prior to the beginning of the war‚ was a major slogan for the revolutionaries. The quote means‚ "If citizens are not represented in the government‚ then the
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This quote’s meaning is very powerful to me. My second choice is "Henry‚ if love is all around you‚ like huckleberries‚ why do you pick loneliness?". I choose this quote as my second because of its truism. This quote is correct‚ love is all around us. The emotional atmosphere this quote created for me was both a sense of awakening and dissapointment. My third choice out of the eight is "You want to be a matchmaker‚ Lydian? Find me something innocent and natural and uncomplicated. A shrub-oak. A
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The Second Industrial Revolution affected the regions of the United States differently. Use this chart to compare the effects of the revolution on the North‚ South‚ West‚ and Midwest. In the chart‚ you will identify the political‚ social‚ economic‚ population‚ and transportation changes that the revolution brought to each region. Part 1 – Complete the following chart using information from the lesson. Regions Chart Category North South West Midwest Political Labor Union were formed and
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After the Civil war in the United States‚ Corporations grew significantly in number‚ size‚ and influence between the 1870s and 1900s. Big business impacted America’s economy‚ politics and as well as the Americans responses to these changes. Big business began when entrepreneurs in search for wealth and success combined their business into massive corporations. Vertical and horizontal integration were tactics used to make business grow faster. Vertical integration is the acquiring of material from
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Chapter 34 Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War‚ 1933-1941 Use the following to answer questions 1-9: Identify and state the historical significance of the following: 1. Cordell Hull 2. Joseph Stalin 3. Benito Mussolini 4. Adolf Hitler 5. Josef Goebbels 6. Francisco Franco 7. Winston Churchill 8. Charles Lindbergh 9. Wendell Willkie Use the following to answer questions 10-13: Define and state the historical significance of the following: 10. totalitarianism 11. fascism
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Evolution by Natural Selection *** Please review lesson 5.02 to help answer the questions Living things that are well adapted to their environment survive and reproduce. Those that are not well adapted don’t survive and reproduce. Any inherited trait that increases an organism’s ability to survive is called an adaptation. Remember that these adaptations are inherited traits; they are not changes that an individual chooses to make and that increases fitness‚ which is defined as the ability
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Name: Chapter Review Hour: 1‚ 2‚ 3‚ 4‚ 5‚ 6‚ 7 Pages 13 - 14 Chapter Review – Observation Skills True or False: If false‚ correct so that it is a true statement. _____ 1. The word forensic refers to the application of scientific knowledge to legal questions. _____ 2. Good observation skills come naturally to investigators; they do not need to be trained. _____ 3. If we remember seeing something happen‚ we can trust that it happened just as we think it did. _____ 4. Most wrongful
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4. Describe how prokaryotes carry out photosynthesis and cellular respiration when they lack compartmentalized organelles such as chloroplasts and mitochondria. The area of cellular respiration in prokaryotes is the respiratory membrane. For aerobic prokaryote the infoldings of the plasma membrane are similar to the cristae of mitochondria‚ whose purpose in eukaryotic cells is cellular respiration. In photosynthetic prokaryotes‚ the area responsible for cellular respiration is the thylakoid membrane
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