Name: Date: Ch.3 AP Government More Practice Questions 1. Federal officials’ perceptions of national needs came to dominate the allocation of federal grants during the A) Reagan administration. B) Great Depression. C) World War II era. D) post–Civil War era. E) 1960s and 1970s. 2. During the 1960s and 1970s‚ federal grants to states were increasingly based on A) the demands of the individual states. B) what state officials perceived to be important state needs. C) the power
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Slavery was one of the biggest reasons why the American Civil War began. The American Civil War started on April 12‚ 1861. The civil war went on for four years. It was caused by the disagreements over slavery and the states. The North and South both believed in different ideas. They did not agree on the same thing. This had an impact on both sides. The North didn’t believe in keeping slaves‚ while the South did believe in keeping slaves and wanted to have and keep the slaves that they could. This
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Explain how the role of an accountant has changed over time. Discuss the role of the accountant in modern business. I. Introduction. Thesis statement: Many changes have happened in Accounting in the last few years. Most of which are differences in styles and also ways to implement this knowledge in modern business. II. What are an older-style accountant and modern accountant? 1. Overview of the situation in the past. 2. Previous information about an older- style accountant
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The Civil War era was determined by the unresolved issues of the Revolution. Two of the main issues being would the United states be a dissolvable group of sovereign states (The Confederacy) or an indivisible nation with a central government; the other being if the nation announcing itself to the world as an equal nation where all are created equal would maintain its identity as the largest slave owning country in the world. In January 1861‚ seven Southern slave states individually declared their
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First‚ the Civil War improved anesthesia was by lowering the dosage used for each patient. Anesthesia was used in high quantities of a chemical called chloroform. Before the war began‚ surgeons used to obtain a specific dosage of chloroform‚ soak a cloth into it‚ and then proceed to use the saturated cloth to cover the patient’s mouth and nose. This would then make the patient fall into unconsciousness during the time the surgeon performed on the invalid. However‚ at the start of the Civil War‚ doctors
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Civil War So many major events from the time between 1848 and 1861‚ lead up to the civil war between the Union and the Confederacy. “Historians have identified at least four main causes of the conflict between the North and the South: (1) slavery‚ as a growing moral issue in the North‚ versus its defense and expansion in the South; (2) constitutional disputes over the nature of the federal Union and states’ rights; (3) economic differences between the industrializing North and the agricultural South
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Comprise of 1877. This Comprise set the civil rights for African Americans back for years to come. If only they had worked a better deal for the future of the African Americans in the Southern states. America could be whole different country today. When you go back to see what the civil war was truly about‚ it was too free the African American slaves and to give them the freedoms and rights they deserved. These people had been treated so badly for so many years. The end of the Civil War and the
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During the Civil War‚ there were many great commanders that helped make the war successful. Winfield Scott Hancock is not only known for the Civil War‚ but in the many other wars that he fought bravely in. Hancock is known for when he commanded the Union center‚ and defeated Confederate troops‚ which was known as Pickett’s Charge. Winfield Scott Hancock was born February 4‚ 1824 in Southeastern Pennsylvania. He was one of two identical twin brothers. He was given his name after Winfield Scott‚ the
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It can be said the driving cause for all Soldiers during the civil war was their determination to preserve what they felt was most important‚ to the bitter end. For Southerners in particular‚ the fuel that fed their determination was their personal duty to protect their homes‚ their families’ and their independent way of life‚ at all costs. The men of the Forth Texas Battalion‚ Confederate States of America (CSA) were by no means different. These Texas Soldiers of the 4th Infantry were part of
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the United States and Great Britain from November to December‚ during the U.S. Civil War between 1861- 1865. After captain Charles Wilkes of the USS. San Jacinto ordered the arrest of two confederate’s diplomatic James Manson and John Sydell; both set sail aboard the Europe on a British mail ship call the Trent. When British accused America of violating the British neutrality America sailed out to get the support for the Civil War in the south. Afterwards the ship was searched and then England
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