Unit 1: The Foundation of the Spanish‚ French‚ Dutch and English Colonies in North America * Initial Contact (Spanish) * The French and Dutch Colonies * The English Colonies Part I: Initial Contact (Spanish) #1: Who were the earliest inhabitants of the Americas? * About 14‚000 years ago (12‚000 BCE)‚ people started to migrate across BERINGIA to Americas * By 8‚000 BCE‚ they reached to Tierra del Fuego * 3 waves came from Asia‚ 1 from Polynesia
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"Quaker Women in the American Colonies" During the colonial period‚ women were considered inferior to men and “nothing more than servants for their husbands.” During the eighteenth century‚ unmarried Quaker women were the first to vote‚ stand up in court‚ and evangelize; although Quaker women enjoyed rights that women today take for granted‚ they were most known for their religious radicalism. According to Rufus Jones‚ a professor at Harvard‚ the Quakers “felt‚ as their own testimony plainly
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Differences between the three colonies are distinct. The New England and Middle colonies acquire an identical social structure compared to the South‚ which has slaves and indentured servants. The New England and Middle colonies dislike discrimination because of their lifestyle‚ which designates man as equal in God’s eyes. Another dissimilarity is religious toleration. Although the New England colonies have an equal social structure‚ they do not endure those who possess a different faith other than
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The American Dream is unsurprisingly one of the most prevalent themes throughout American literature. From Huckleberry Finn (Twain) to Death of a Salesman (Miller)‚ the idea is prevalent in most of the American classics. In Huckleberry Finn‚ the dream represents the ability to be free on the river away from the rules and racism of society‚ while in Death of a Salesman it represents a workingman’s failure to achieve his goals. Both have opposing narratives regarding the dream‚ based upon the times
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they wanted independence‚ political freedom‚ and economic opportunity. The Spanish came as conquerors; the resulting political system was entirely autocratic and solely devoted to the furthering of the motherland. Spain gave its colonies little self-rule. Instead‚ Spanish rulers dictated all the policies of its New World territories. The English and Spanish both wanted to explore and find new territories too politically and economically control. The Spanish colonies developed economically by
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Nguyen 08/11/2006 AP US History A Comparison of the New England and Chesapeake Bay Regions During the 1700’s‚ people in the American colonies lived in very distinctive societies. While some colonists led hard lives‚ others were healthy and prosperous. The two groups who showed these differences were the colonists of the New England and Chesapeake Bay areas. The differentiating characteristics among the Chesapeake and New England colonies developed due to economy‚ religion‚ and motives for colonial
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progressive historians is Frederick Jackson Turner. His most famous argument is not devoted strictly to the American Revolution‚ but instead to the effects of the American frontier. In a sentence‚ his argument is that the frontier was the chief determinant in American history. This is not to say that Turner did not write about the war; he did. Even in his seminal work‚ The Frontier in American History‚ there are discussions of the frontier’’s effect on the coming of the revolution. It is worth noting
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that without French aid‚ the colonies could never have won their independence. Do you agree? Why? Historians argue that the American colonies could not have succeeded in defeating the British empire without French aid. I fully agree with this statement. The colonists were not soldiers; they had no military training. The colonies had no government to pay for supplies and weapons. The colonists had no chance of success without foreign aid. Before France would ally with the colonies‚ they wanted
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However‚ the Sino-Canadian relations are not as stable and positive as the Canadian-American relations. Canada is one of the world ’s richest and most economically developed countries. China is the biggest developing country and Communist country in the world. China is also the world ’s second largest economy after the United States; it is considered an emerging economy because of its rapid growth and industrialization after the “Reform and Opining up policy” in 1978. The Chinese market‚ with dramatically
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Examples Of Improving Thesis Statements · The War of 1812 came before the American Civil War. (Bad example) · The War of 1812 set into motion the main events that caused the American Civil War. (Good example) · The judicial system needs to have power over Congress in order to do its job. (Bad example) · In order for the judicial system to judge whether a law is constitutional‚ it must have the power to overturn a temporary law of Congress. (Good example) · People need to stay healthy for
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