Chapter 7: The Road to Revolution 1763-1775 The Deep Roots of Revolution The New World natured new ideas about government‚ citizen‚ and society unlike the Old World were they wouldn’t bother trying to change their social status. Republicanism‚ giving the stability of society and the authority of government to the citizens‚ and Whig ideas‚ defending against corruption of the representatives in parliament‚ were in the minds of the American Colonist by the mid-eighteenth century. Mercantilism and
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Europe and the World: New Encounters‚ 1500-1800 On the Brink of a New World ❖ By the 16th century‚ the Atlantic seaboard had become the center of a commercial activity that raised Portugal and Spain and later the Dutch Republic‚ England‚ and France to prominence ➢ the age of expansion was a crucial factor in the European transition from the agrarian economy of the MA to a commercial and industrial capitalistic system. The Motives ❖ Contact w/non-Europeans remained limited until the end of
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Stevie Wonder Stevland Hardaway Jenkins is what it may say on his birth certificate‚ but this world-renowned‚ transcendent artist is better known as Stevie Wonder. Even at birth‚ Stevie was ahead of his time. He was born premature and doctors were unsure if he would live. Stevie was placed in an incubator to save his life. As a result of the incubator supplying Stevie with too much oxygen‚ he was left blind. Throughout life‚ Stevie never let his disability hold him back. By age 10‚ he had already
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This is an age of science. Science has completely changed the entire world. Science has made our life more comfortable and trouble free. Science is useful to us. The blessings of Science are too many to count. Science has conquered time and distance. Electricity is another wonderful gift of science. Electricity‚ one of its off shoots‚ is used in washing clothes‚ cooking food and in entertaining us. Its uses are unlimited. It lights our houses‚ shops‚ showrooms and streets. It runs our air-conditioners
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Wonder Woman: the Iconic American Super-heroine Approximately three billion women exist on our planet. Many of them show strength and wisdom while simultaneously demonstrating kindness‚ though some mistake this as weakness. Wonder Woman‚ superhero and symbolic female liberator‚ existed simply to contradict the beliefs of the ignorant and to assist in transforming America. She does more than fight fictional foes; she fights those still clinging to antiquated ideas of female inferiority. When created
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Brave New World: World Instability I. Video Intro of World Instability (3:50) II. Past examples of world instability (Chad) A. Russian Revolution a. http://www.history.com/topics/russian-revolution b. After Bolshevik forces executed Czar Nicholas II and his family in July 1918‚ the killers hid the victims’ mutilated bodies. The remains were discovered and exhumed in the late 1970s near Yekaterinburg‚ Russia‚ and eventually identified through DNA testing. B. World War II a. http://www.history
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How & why did World War I begin? II. Evaluate & discuss President Wilson’s decision to enter the war in 1917. III. Why was World War I considered a “total war”? IV. How did the war affect economic affairs & social relationships in America? V. How & why did President Wilson attempt to shape the Treaty of Versailles? VI. Assess & discuss the failure of the Settlement of 1919–1920 to achieve a lasting peace in America & in Europe. Chapter Annotated Outline I. The
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New world exploration a. exploration origins of european expansion exploration b. consequences encounter a. conquistadors had superior weapons/guns & horses b. native american populations quickly shrank c. death due to diseases brought by europeans spanish empire a. financed by gold and silver from americas b. natives: died from diseases brought by the spanish some converted to christianity some resisted by the spanish control colonies spanish empire -appointed viceroys
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better living than others showed that women didn’t suffer much during FDR’s presidency Document B: • during the Great Depression‚ many people pitched in to help out FDR helped better the worker’s working conditions and wages NRA and Section 7(a) of the National Industrial Recovery Act o “Everyone is sympathetic to the cause of creating of creating more jobs and better wages for labor…” showed that everyone was pitching in to help and create more jobs for people o “…leading us fast to
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honor the Greek Goddess of the Moon‚ Artemis. Tragically‚ a man named Herostratus set the Temple of Artemis on fire along with a group of Goths in an attempt to have his name go down in history. He managed to do so and city officials tried to enforce a new law stating that if any one citizen of Ephesus mentioned his name‚ they would receive the death penalty; the attempt failed. All of religion at this point declined because Artemis did not protect her temple. The structure as well as the story is terrific
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