Vincent Vo Period 6 Buers APUSH DBQ 1: Labor Unions Three decades following the Civil War‚ America was a conflicted time of both poverty and prosperity. While there were indeed a number of powerful men‚ such as Rockefeller and Carnegie‚ the majority of the population consisted of the working class. Entire families worked for exhaustingly long hours in dangerous and unsanitary conditions. Eventually‚ people of the working class started to advertise reforms and form unions. The movement towards organized
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1985 #1 From 1781 to 1789 the Articles of Confederation provided the United States with an effective government. Using the documents and your knowledge of the period‚ evaluate this statement. Although the Articles of Confederation did provide the United States with some sort of effective government such as states rights‚ expansions of lands‚ and a legislative branch‚ it did not have enough power to govern efficiently‚ regulate trade‚ and levy taxes . The Articles had weaknesses that overshadowed
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Dylan Gleeson The Constitution of the United States was written in 1787 yet there was a struggle for its ratification that went on until 1790. Some members of congress believed that the Articles of confederation needed to be changed meanwhile others disagreed. After the revolutionary war the people needed a sense of power which they received when the new government was centered on the state. The new United States needed a strong central government but many feared of a central government
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Lea Serres November‚ 2009 Mrs. Cerqua Nationalism DBQ "Nationalism united people into nation- states‚ toppled empires composed of many ethnic minorities‚ and contributed to the outbreak of wars in the nineteenth century. How would you evaluate this statement?" Nationalism is a common patriotic passion for one’s nation and fellow nationals that united‚ and still unites certain groups of people. Nationalism can cause for the birth of loyalty to ethnic minorities‚ which have potential to cause many
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Article-- Morsi: Don’t expect Egypt to live by America’s rules Web Address:- http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/09/23/morsi-dont-expect-egypt-to-live-by-america-rules/ As this article published in Sepetember23‚ 2012‚ Egypt President‚ Islamist Mohammed Morsi during his first visit to United State said that they will not follow American’s rule in their decision making as his predecessor Hosni Mubarak done. This was the response of Morsi after a wave of violence erupted across the Muslim world over
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in Massachusetts and Virginia in the period from 1607 to 1750. AP 2005 Alternate “Geography was the primary factor in shaping the development of the British colonies in North America.” Assess the validity of this statement for the 1600s. AP 2004 DBQ In what ways did the French and Indian War (1754-63) alter the political‚ economic and ideological relations between Britain and its American colonies? Use the documents and your knowledge of the period 1740-1766 in constructing your response. AP
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AP United States History Test Answer Explanations: 1996 1. The principal motivation for drafting the Bill of Rights was the desire to: Protect rights not specified in the Constitution. The correct answer (B) was chosen by 93% of test takers. 2. Which of the following statements about the “American System” is correct? It was designed to meet the nation’s need for economic progress and self-sufficiency. The correct answer (D) was chosen by 70% of test takers. 3. In 1861 the North
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EFFECTIVENESS OF THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION The Articles of Confederation were incapable of providing the United States with an effective form of government. The Articles of Confederation presided weakly over the government as it allowed little or no power to tax‚ control trade‚ and branches of government were missing. In addition to this‚ the thirteen states acted as separate nations and the national government had little control over them. As seen in Document C‚ Congress had so little
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5 Article Summaries Uniqua Lyttle MKG 366-02 November 26‚ 2013 Crossover Dreams: Consumer Responses to Ethnic- Oriented Products In this article the author evaluates an investigation on the understanding of ethnic product crossover. That is when the product has a target market however; another group of individuals purchase the product. For example‚ 60% of hip-hop and rap traditionally black music is purchased primarily by white youths. This article compares
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constitution was more realistic than the Articles of Confederation; in terms of having a balanced sense of order and efficiency. In order to make changes to the Articles of Confederation‚ a unanimous vote of 13 states was needed as well as passing the ratification through state legislators. In order to make changes to the U.S Constitution those needed to be held under independent conventions and only 9/13 states needed to agree unlike the Articles of Confederation. The U.S constitution was thought
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