AP U.S. History Summer Work 2013-2014 School Year ZINN CHAPTER 1: pp. 1-11 Columbus‚ The Indian‚ and Human Progress 1. According to Zinn‚ what is his main purpose for writing A People’s History of the United States? 2. What is Zinn’s Thesis for pages 1-11? 3. According to Zinn‚ how is Columbus portrayed in traditional history books? 4. Why does Zinn dispute Henry Kissinger’s statement: “History is the memory of states?” 5. What is Zinn’s basic criticism of historian
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AP United States History 7 January 2014 Period 4 Zinn Chapter 11 Manifest Destiny gave reason to go to the West for opportunists. The more common name for these opportunistic Americans were industrialists. These people came on the rise as Robber Barons. What would become household names were simply paving their ways towards success in these days. This brand of people became a part of American culture‚ forever changing it and embellishing their names within it‚ such as Rockefeller‚ Standford
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States Chapter 9 Summary Chapter nine of Howard Zinn’s book explains slavery before and after the Civil War. The majority of the United States Government was in support of slavery until Abraham Lincoln publicized his support for the end of slavery. This chapter includes details of slavery from the accounts of different slaves and records kept about their oppression. Their servitude was preserved through the separation of their families‚ whipping‚ and killing. Prior to the Civil War there were
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who “discovered” a new world‚ and became friends with the native people. Howard Zinn’s view on Columbus’s encounter with the natives is an entirely different perspective. Zinn describes Columbus as a man who is willing to torture and kill others to be able to accomplish what he wants; in this case he wanted to obtain gold and other resources to take back with him to Spain. When Columbus and his men arrived to the islands‚ he noticed that the natives were generous‚ and accommodating because they willingly
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Chapter 9 summary In this chapter it tells a story about slavery before and after the Civil War. It explains the United States provision of slavery and how some people were misled on who ended slavery‚ how it was Abraham Lincoln and not John brown who was hung later in 1859 for his crimes. It later goes into graphic detail of how slaves were kept into slavery by whipping and separating families. It sort of reminds of the movie 12 years a slave I would recommend it. It’s sad but true story of
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ZINN CHAPTER 7: Study Questions “As Long as Grass Grows or Water Runs” 1. The major theme (recurring idea) in this chapter was about the Native Americans and their survival due to the Americans taking their land‚ spreading diseases‚ and invades their towns. 2. The evidence that Zinn cites to illustrate the overall impact of Indian removal is by talking about the book “Fathers and Children”. This book talks about how Native Americans were dismissed from their land and eventually there were
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To claim that the Civil War was unlike any other war since is to dispute the claims of countless historians who view it as a prelude or prototype for the type of wars that followed‚ “Library shelves groan with works pointing to the Civil War as a harbinger of “total war” in its modern form.” This claim‚ as well as overlooking strategies and tactics that have been applied and evolved through subsequent wars‚ overlooks the significance of ideological warfare and policies of a central government such
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ch10 Student: ___________________________________________________________________________ 1. Make this inductive (statistical) syllogism into a relatively strong argument by supplying an appropriate premise or conclusion: Greg must be into all that New Age stuff since he wears his hair in a ponytail. 2. Make this inductive (statistical) syllogism into a relatively strong argument by supplying an appropriate premise or conclusion: People who go to Burning Man are not like you and me.
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Chapter 10 Discussion Questions Be prepared to discuss the handout I gave you entitled “Take the Road to IT Value” Be prepared to discuss the mini-case “Budgeting at Performance Boards‚ Inc.” For each category of IT governance risk‚ come up with at least one control. Be prepared to discuss the pros and cons of each of the three main methods of “Funding Information Systems” What are the three characteristics that effect project risks? Look at the IT project portfolio profiles and be ready to
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chapter 10 Chapter Test Area Results of the quiz. 1. Find the area of ΔABC. The figure is not drawn to scale. * CORRECT: 23.14 cm2 2. Find the area of a parallelogram with vertices at P(–8‚ –3)‚ Q (–7‚ 3)‚ R(–9‚ 3)‚ and S(–10‚ –3). * CORRECT: 12 square units 3. A slide that is inches by inches is projected onto a screen that is 3 feet by 7 feet‚ filling the screen. What will be the ratio of the area of the slide to its image on the screen? * CORRECT: 1 : 12‚544 4. Find the
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