Discussion board http://www.slideshare.net/PA302/hius-221-discussion-board-forums-1-4-15142038 Chapter 8 1 What event on August 24‚ 1814 was a British attempt at retaliation for the destruction of the Canadian capital at York? Burning of Washington‚ DC 2 What battle of the war of 1812 made Andrew Jackson a national hero? The Battle Of New Orleans 3 The Capture of what fort on Lake Champlain gave the patriots control of the northern approach to the colonies and needed artillery
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AP Exam Vocab • Cahokia – One of the largest urban centers created by Mississippian people‚ containing 30‚000 residents in 1250. • Transoceanic migrations- a population migration across oceans • Beringia- a subcontinent bridging Asia and North America‚ named after the Bering Straits. • Athapascan- A people that began to settle the forests in the northwestern area of North America around 5000 B.C.E. • Clovis tradition-A powerful new and sophisticated style of tool making‚
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Definitions -Stereotypes -Culture -Ethnicity -Nationality -Race -Minority -Class -Prejudice Stereotype: When you cant prove it‚ its a stereotype. When you can prove it‚ it isn’t a stereotype. Fixed and overly simplified but widely held‚ beliefs about individual‚ based on perceived group membership. Not based on fact Culture: Traditions and beliefs How you treat other people with respect Good behavior Value expectations All about groups Manifest by your behavior Artifacts “A set of shared
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The Journal of the Moorish Paradigm / Book 1 Mu-Atlantis Multi-media Presents… The Journal of the Moorish Paradigm © 1997-2005 Hakim Bey Table of Contents Greatest Unknown Man: Prophet noble Drew Ali Atlantis is Code For Our Ancient Civilization The Destruction of Atlantis We are Aboriginal by Birthright Ancient Olmec Artifacts of Our Ancestor in America Ancient Mayan Artifacts of Our Ancestor in America The Original Arawaks‚ Californians‚ Andeans The First Americans Red or
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WHAT IS AMERICAN LITERATURE? AN OVERVIEW When the English preacher and writer Sidney Smith asked in 1820‚ “In the four quarters of the globe‚ who reads an American book?” little did he suspect that less than two hundred years later the answer in literate quarters would be “just about everyone.” Indeed‚ just a few years after Smith posed his inflammatory question‚ the American writer Samuel Knapp would begin to assemble one of the first histories of American literature as part of a lecture series
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|PROSA Y FICCION DE LOS EEUU I (HASTA 1850) | 1. Introduction: American Literature Why and how is American literature different from its mother country (Great Britain)? In the beginning‚ America was a colony of Britain so its literature was the offspring of British literature; it was a sort of colonial literature‚ which would later give place to post-colonial literature. There are differences in themes
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PENGUIN BOOKS AMERICAN COLONIES Alan Taylor’s previous books include William Cooper’s Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic‚ which won the 1996 Bancroft and Pulitzer prizes for history. He is a professor of history at the University of California at Davis. American Colonies is the first volume in the Penguin History of the United States‚ edited by Eric Foner‚ award-winning author o f Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution and the DeWitt Clinton
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee By Dee Brown Copyright Notice Some or all of these eNotes are an offprint from Gale ’s For Students Series: Presenting Analysis‚ Context‚ and Criticism on Commonly Studied Works. ©1998−2002; ©2002 by Gale. Gale is an imprint of The Gale Group‚ Inc.‚ a division of Thomson Learning‚ Inc. Gale and Design® and Thomson Learning are trademarks used herein under license. ©2005 eNotes.com LLC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this work covered by the copyright hereon may be reproduced
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HISTORY TIMELINE WORLD HISTORY TIMELINE FROM ANCIENT HISTORY TO 21ST CENTURY COPYRIGHT © 2010 - www.ithappened.info Table of Contents Ancient history .................................................................................................................................... 4 100‚000 to 800 BC........................................................................................................................... 4 800 BC to 300 BC...............................................
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AP* U.S. History Study Guide and Review Aligned with Bailey’s American Pageant - 13th edition - This book is available in print‚ online at: www.lulu.com/content/310851 * “AP” is a registered trademark of the College Board AP US History Review and Study Guide for “American Pageant” is available in print at www.lulu.com/content/310851 Notes • Don’t use this review instead of reading the text. Use this as a supplement‚ not a substitute. Be sure to practice free-response questions
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