ZINN CHAPTER 7: Study Questions "As Long as Grass Grows or Water Runs" 1. What is the major theme (recurring idea) in this chapter. The major theme in this chapter was about the Native Americans and their survival due to the Americans taking their land‚ spreading diseases‚ and raiding their towns. 2. What evidence does Zinn cite to illustrate the overall impact of Indian removal? The evidence Zinn uses to illustrate the overall impact of the Indian removal by talking about the book
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of the Negro’s migration into industry and the birth of a professional class far removed from the Southern hinterland. D. Outside the Ghetto the radicalization of the middle classes and of labor was evidenced by hundreds of thousands of socialist votes in the 1904 elections. III. The Talented Tenth and Its Program A. Du Bois conceived that the intense political activity in the United States between 1892 and 1912 placed the Negro electorate in a decisive position -“with the
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Howard Zinn: A People’s History of the United States CHAPTER 1‚ pg. 1-22 Columbus‚ the Indians and human progress. Directions: read the above chapter and answer the following questions on this sheet. Major Question: Is Christopher Columbus a Hero? 1. According to Zinn‚ what is his main purpose for writing A People’s History of the United States? 2. According to Zinn‚ how is Columbus portrayed in traditional history books? 3. What is Zinn’s basic criticism of historian Samuel Eliot
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Zinn Chapter 12 1. Why might Teddy Roosevelt have thought that the United States needed a war in 1897? a. The United States was struggling politically and economically. It was believed that opening up markets overseas would relieve a lot of the problems that the United States was having in its depression. 2. In what sense was expansion overseas “not a new idea”? If it was not new‚ then why did it not begin until 1898? a. The Monroe Doctrine moved the US down south into the Caribbean even before the
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Socialist law From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search |[pic] |This law-related article does not cite its references or sources. You can help Wikipedia by including appropriate citations‚ | | |which can be found through legal research. | |[pic] |Please help improve this article by expanding it. Further information might be found on the talk page. (July 2007)
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particularly caught my attention is the National Socialist Movement‚ located in Detroit‚ with branches in Chicago. This group shares a hatred for Jews‚ and believes in Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. The National Socialist Movement is the largest Neo-Nazi organization in America. The group branched off of The Ku Klux Klan‚ and American Nazi Party‚ founded in 1959 by George Lincoln Rockwell‚ a former Navy commander. Rockwell was murdered in 1967‚ and The National Socialist Movement was created in St. Paul‚ Minnesota
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Devon Lima-Mitchell 11/8/10 English 201A West Passionate Declarations: “The Ultimate Power” Everywhere you go you see it‚ whether it is children on the playground fighting over who uses the swings next or the evening news blaring from the television about another suicide bombing‚ violence follows us wherever we go. Throughout history violence has been socially accepted. Our ancestors used it to determine weakness and now we are using it again for the same reasons. Today the United States must
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Analysis of Themes 1. Corruption of Socialist IdealsExamples of the theme of corruption of socialist ideals can be seen throughout Animal Farm. Once Napoleon takes over as the leader of the farm‚ his reign becomes corrupted. In the book Napoleon represents Joseph Stalin andSnowball represents Leon Trotsky. The struggle between Stalin and Trotsky during the rise of Stalin is seen in the rivalry between Napoleon and Snowball. In both the book and history‚ the more politically power and spiteful
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Socialist Feminist Criticism: You Dropped the Bomb on Me‚ Baby Feminism and gender studies have been described as having the ability to "challenge literary and culture theory to confront the difficult task of assimilating the findings of an expanding sphere of inquiry" (Contemporary Literary Criticism 567). This area of study has taken center stage during the last fifty years‚ not only in our society‚ but also in literary criticism. Although the terrain Feminism traverses can hardly be narrowed
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ZINN CHAPTER 5: Part I -- pp. 76-88 Study Questions 1. What support did the Revolutionary War effort have among the colonial population? The revolutionary War had some support from the colonial population. The Colonial population wasn’t very fond of the war. They did receive help from Sailors and mechanics who helped them with weapons‚ boats‚ etc. 2. What impact did slavery have on the war effort in the South? Slavery had a very large impact on the South’s was effort. Rebellions
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