AP U.S. Summer Assignment Mr. O’handley Nicholas West Due Date: Sept. 5 2012 AP U.S. Summer Assignment Nicholas West Mr. O’handley 7/27/12 OUTLINES CH 1-5 “With the dawn of the 16th century‚ there came together in Europe both the motivation and the means to explore and colonize territory across the sea.” -Trade- the concurring of the Inca Empire led by Francisco Pizarro led to the shipping of tons of gold and silver to
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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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Isabel Olivas Eliason AP U.S. History 6 September 2014 The New World was a marvel and a chance to make it big in the 1600s. England took its gamble at building colonies in the unsettled region of what is now the east coast. It then was separated into two regions‚ New England and the Chesapeake. Even though they were both founded by the English‚ their differences in religion‚ unity‚ and motives evolved their societies into polar opposites. In New England‚ unity was a way of life. They believed in
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Chapter 1 2) My interpretation of the word discovery is when someone detects or finds something new or previously unknown. In 1492 an explorer named Christopher Columbus was requested by the King of Spain to find a more direct route to Asia. When he made landfall 6 weeks after leaving Spain he thought he landed in Asia. But really he had found something else‚ an unknown mass of land blocking the route to Asia‚ the Americas. Columbus failed his main task he did not discover a quicker route to
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by Mexico of an enormous amount of land to the US‚ and a rush of settlers to new American territory in California 3. The Wilmot Proviso‚ if adopted‚ would have prohibited slavery in any territory acquired in the Mexican War 4. The debate over slavery in the Mexican Cession threatened to split national politics along North-South lines 5. In 1848‚ the Free Soil party platform advocated all of the following: support of the Wilmot Proviso; free government homesteads for settlers; opposition
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CHOICE. MULTIPLE Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1) By the 1830s‚ which of the following groups was NOT denied suffrage? 1) __D____ A) women B) blacks C) indentured servants D) white males E) Native Americans 2) In the 1820s‚ a two-party system was fostered by 2) _E_____ A) an increasing concern about foreign policy issues. B) the burgeoning population of the trans-Appalachian West. C) changes in the Constitution regarding the party
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Nicholas Sconzo Mrs. Blankenship AP Literature and Composition – Period 5 29 October 2012 2011 Form B AP Essay – Tess of the D’Urbervilles Finding true love can be one of the most difficult yet most satisfying things in the world. In Tess of the D’Urbervilles‚ fate proved to be the determining factor when finding true love. Over the course of Tess’s life‚ she was taken advantage of and swindled until the happy times with Angel when her life turned around. Marrying Angel was a difficult step
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DBQ: US expansion American expansion in the late 19th century and early 20th century held many similarities to that of early American expansionism. The motives for early American expansion held similar to that of the turn of the 19th century in that the United States has grown in the reasoning of Manifest Destiny‚ the progress of the American economy and an increasing perception of American racial supremacy. Through the course of history‚ American expansionist incentives have shifted from withstanding
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Free Response When the dog first barks it creates sound waves that travel through the air‚ spreading out and dissipating as they go‚ until they reach the ear of the musician. When the sound waves reach the musician they are “gathered up” into the ear by the oracle and travel into the middle ear. Once in the middle ear the sound waves vibrate the ear drum which transfers the vibrations to the hammer. The hammer then moves the vibrations on to the anvil which transfers them to the stirrup.
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of U.S. becoming Communist. B. China Communist fear. C. McCarthyism heightened fear. D. Hesitation of action to prevent WWIII ^ fear. 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
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