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    AP European History Study Guide Chapter 15 This study guide is to help you get ready for the test. Some of the information asked is found in the notes‚ and some in the textbook. This is typical of MOST college classes and this style of study guide is designed to prepare you! Also‚ while most test questions come from this guide‚ anything in the notes and textbook could be on the test! You MUST do this study guide for points! You may NOT type this study guide out! You also MUST do the practice

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    Analyse the representations (1‚2 and 3E) and choose the one which you think is the best representations of how effective peaceful protest was in securing civil rights in the USA Representation 2 is the best representation in showing how effective peaceful protest was because it has the best accuracy since it’s a history book‚ for example “In 1961‚ 26 year old African-American teacher” this is an accurate report‚ moreover the source has good comprehensiveness and covers most of the events of the

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    revolution‚ John F. Kennedy’s bold vision of a new frontier‚ and the breathtaking advances in space‚ helped bring about progress and prosperity. However‚ much was negative: student and anti-war protest movements‚ political assassinations‚ and ghetto riots excited American people and resulted in lack of respect for authority and the law.<br><br>The decade began under the shadow of the cold war with the Soviet Union‚ which was aggravated by the U-2 incident‚ the Berlin Wall‚ and the Cuban missile crisis

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    1. Jamestown‚ 1607 2. First Africans brought to Virginia‚ 1619 3. Mayflower Compact‚ 1620 4. Great Migration of Puritans to Massachusetts‚ 1630s and 1640s 5. Roger Williams established Rhode Island‚ 1636 6. William Penn established Pennsylvania‚ 1681 7. Salem witch trials‚ 1692 8. James Oglethorpe established Georgia‚ 1732 9. Jonathan Edwards sparked the Great Awakening‚ 17349 10. The French and Indian War‚ 1754-63 11. Proclamation of 1763 12. Stamp Act‚ 1765-66

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    lightening rod. * Samuel Johnson publishes the first English language dictionary * John Campbell invents the sextant. * Dolland invents a chromatic lens. * John Harrison invents the navigational clock or marine chronometer for measuring longitude. * James Watt invents an improved steam engine. * Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph. * Alexander Cummings invents the flush toilet. * Jacques Perrier invents a steamship. * Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine. * Joseph Bramah invents the

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    Should Leslie Van Houten be released from prison based on her good behavior after serving over 47 years in prison? I think that in order for me to come up with a decision‚ I will need to fully understand everything about her. The first thing that I am going to research is the era that she lived in and what was happening in America at the time of her crime‚ such as political‚ social and racial movements. The next thing that I will look at is Leslie Van Houten’s background and what would influence

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    While the clause required states and other public facilities to treat both racially separate buildings to be operated and services be kept equal‚ the reality showed otherwise‚ and many African-American facilities became rundown‚ were underfunded and sometimes were limited. Segregation‚ forcefully put two perspectives on American society for both white and black populations. Much of the segregation lead to lower education rates for blacks because many of them who were former slaves were not allowed

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    In 1960’s America‚ the black man had taken place of the Jew man As Elie Wiesel has affirmed “…It’s vocabulary takes one back a quarter of a century… The Blacks rise up in the “ghettos”… The police use “gas” to disperse demonstrations… The Watts and Harlem riots are compared to the Warsaw Ghetto uprising… Political analysts talk of nuclear “holocausts.”” (Dodsen pg.1) It is obvious that the Holocaust has left an impression on the American culture. The language and knowledge of the Holocaust has spread

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    Nathan Grass Ms. Grace English 9/Period 2 18 October 2011 Martin Luther King Jr. One name changed the face of America. One man had an ambitious dream. That man was Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. believed that one person could change everything. MLK Jr. was the most important man in the Civil Rights movement. He experienced racism at a very young age and later was the biggest contributor to the Civil Rights movement until his life came to an abrupt end. Martin Luther King

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