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US History

This is a survey course that provides students with an investigation of important political, economic, and social developments in American history from the pre-colonial time period to the present day. Students will be engaged in activities that call upon their skills as historians (i.e. recognizing cause and effect relationships, various forms of research, expository and persuasive writing, reading of primary and secondary sources, comparing and contrasting important ideas and events).

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Samuel De Champlain

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Samuel De Champlain was a French explorer who sailed to the West Indies, Mexico, and Panama
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Huguenots

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Huguenots were a group of French Protestants that lived from about 1560 to 1629
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APUSH Chap 27 outline

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Linda Zhang Mrs. Hardgrove APUSH Period 6 APUSH Chapter 27 Outline The Early Cold War US+USSR two most powerful nations USSR wanted to create a buffer zone of friendly governments in Eastern Europe Cold War- a protracted economic, political, and military conflict that spread all around the world Republicans called for return to isolationism Cold War also fostered a climate of fear and suspicion that led to a hunt for ?subversives? in government, education, and the media Cold War was in reality a more complex struggle over a broad range of ideological, economic, and strategic Issues Sources of Conflict Nation?s gross national product soared, growing by 1945 to 3X that of the USSR USSR lost 20 million+ people in WWII (1/9 of pop) USSR greatest asset was its military

The Giant AHAP Review

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THE GIANT AHAP REVIEW OUTLINE! Horace Greeley High School Europeans Colonize North America (1600 ? 1640) *English Interest in Colonization* - By the sixteenth century, many countries, including Spain, France and the Netherlands, had established colonies in the New World. Until the foundation of Jamestown, however, the English didn?t have any successful permanent colonies in North America. - Prior to Jamestown, Sir Walter Raleigh of the Sea Dogs formed a joint stock company and received a charter to found a colony on Roanoke Island in 1584. It failed, and he tried again in 1585 and 1587. Both were failures, and the fate of the 1587 colony remains a mystery (all colonists disappeared).

Chapter 01 - New World Beginnings

I. The shaping of North America

  1. Earth’s continent took their positions slowly; they used to all be one giant mass-continent.
    • Shifting caused mountain ranges to form
  2. About 2 million years ago a great chill covered the planet beginning the Great Ice Age When the glaciers receded and melted they scraped away topsoil and the great lakes were formed and filled.

II. Peopling the Americas

American Pageant 13th edition Chapter 1 Notes

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Chapter 1: New World Beginnings (33,000 B.C. ? A.D. 1769) The Shaping of North America 225 million years ago ? supercontinent w/ all world?s dry land break away into continents & oceans earth?s crust shifts and folds, forms mountain ranges ex. Appalachians, Rockies, Sierra Nevada, Cascades, Cost Ranges 10 million years ago ? North America basic shape formed Canadian Shield Great Ice Age 2 million years ago 10,000 years ago ? glaciers retreat Canadian Shield is depressed, topsoil gone Great Lakes filled Peopling the Americas most come by land, some by boat 35,000 years ago ? Ice Age fuse oceans, lower sea level land bridge from Eurasia N. America in Bering Sea Asian hunters, nomads, cross to Americas sea level rise after Ice Age over isolate Americas

Chapter 2 QUIZ answers

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American History: Connecting with the Past, 14th Edition (Brinkley)American History: Connecting with the Past, 14th Edition (Brinkley) Chapter 2: Chapter 2: TRANSPLANTATIONS AND BORDERLANDSTRANSPLANTATIONS AND BORDERLANDS Multiple Choice QuizMultiple Choice Quiz Results ReporterResults Reporter Out of 23 questions, you answered 7 correctly with a final grade of 30% 7 correct (30%) 16 incorrect (70%) 0 unanswered (0%) Your Results:Your Results: The correct answer for each question is indicated by a . 11 INCORRECTINCORRECT Which of the following did NOT shape the character of English settlements in America? A)A) The colonies were business enterprises. B)B) The colonies adopted native agricultural techniques. C)C)

APUSH Unit Guide

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?Chapter 2 Reading Objectives? 1. ?State the factors that caused the English to start late on colonization.? -Internal religious conflict: the Protestant Reformation in England caused fighting between Protestants and Roman Catholics, and power changed hands between the two for a long time. -Alliance with the Spanish: the two were at peace in the first half of the 1500s, but with the plundering of Spanish ships later in the century, England broke that peace and began to colonize. 2. ?Describe the development of the Jamestown colony from its disastrous beginnings to its later prosperity.? -Virginia Company of London sends people to the New World - Chartered by King that guaranteed settlers all English rights

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