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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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Chapter 2 Reading Notes

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Virginia
Native American tribes in Virginia
Powhatan Confederacy
united states
History of North America
Colonial Virginia
James River
American folklore
Powhatan
John Rolfe
Pocahontas
John Smith

Chapter 1: New World Beginnings August 15th, 2012: Reading Assignment (Textbook Pgs. 6; 13-15; 24-35) Map 1.1 (Pg. 6) 25,000 years, ppl cross Bering land bridge (low water levels, Ice Age) from Eurasia to N. America ?Na. Americans? dispersed southward Columbus Comes upon a New World (Pgs. 13-14) October 12th, 1492 -> arrive at Bahamas Columbus: ?most successful failure? Thought America was the Indies, thus calling the Na. Americans ?Indians? When Worlds Collide (Pgs. 14-15) Columbus Exchange: New World -> Old World: Gold, Silver; corn, potatoes, pineapples, tomatoes, tobacco, beans vanilla, chocolate; syphilis Old World -> New World: Wheat, sugar, rice, coffee; horses, cows, pigs; small pox, measles, bubonic plague, influenza, typhus, diphtheria, scarlet fever

Unit 7 Slurves

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Politics of the United States
Political parties in the United States
Elections in the United States
Vice Presidents of the United States
Sons of the American Revolution
Presidency of Warren G. Harding
Warren G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New Deal
Herbert Hoover
William Howard Taft
Politics

Unit 7 Slurves Jennifer Lyon 4/8/13 1. The progressive movement contributed to a decline in party influence. This resulted in a decline in voter turnout. After 1912, the voter turnout never again reached 70%, when it had regularly been in the 80%s in the late nineteenth century. The power of the parties was replaced by interest groups. 2. Wilson was, in general, a trustbuster. He believed that big business was both unjust and inefficient. He thought that monopoly could not be regulated and thus had to be destroyed. This was the basis of his successful New Freedom program.

Paul Johnson

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A History of the American People Questions Part One: "A City On A Hill" (Colonial America, 1580-1720) How does Paul Johnson describe the Portuguese and their involvement in the slave trade?? Johnson says that the Portuguese entered the slave-trade in the mid-15th century. They transformed the trade into a much more horrible and impersonal process. They soon became the world?s largest transporter of slaves, particularly to sugar plantations. What happened to the first island town Isabella (Spanish)? What was the first successful Spanish settlement? The first island-town, Isabella founded by Christopher Colombus, failed completely and was taken over by the Spanish crown. The first successful establishment, in 1502, was the Santo Domingo colony founded by Nicolas de Ovando.

Prison Reform Movement

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Penology
Total institutions
Criminology
Prison Reform
Reform
Dorothea Dix
Prison
sociology
Psychiatric hospital
health
Social philosophy
Social Issues

Mia Gore AP US History Mrs. Dellinger 21 February 2013 The Prison Reform Movement The prison reform movement, led by Dorothea Dix, sought to improve three major flaws in the jailing system: Overcrowding, ill treatment of inmates, and failing to separate those inmates with mental illnesses and give them proper care. Dix is quoted saying to the Massachusetts legislature: ?The sick and insane are confined in this Commonwealth in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens! Chained, beaten with rods, lashed into obedience.?

Causes of the American Revolution

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Politics of the United States
American Revolution
History of the United States
Humanities
Age of Enlightenment
Adams family
Stamp Act
thomas paine
Common Sense
Samuel Adams
No taxation without representation
John Adams
American Revolution; Causes of the American Revolution

Gore 4 Mia Gore AP US History Mrs. Dellinger February 4, 2013 Cause of the American Revolution

The Planting of English America

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James River
American folklore
Powhatan
Jamestown, Virginia
John Rolfe
Colonial history of the United States
John Smith
Starving Time
slave codes

England?s Imperial Stirrings By the year 1607, Central and South America was largely controlled by Spain or Portugal, but North America was mostly unclaimed. In North America, there were few Europeans. Spain had established Santa Fe. France had established Quebec. Britain had just established Jamestown, and it was struggling. In the 1500s, Britain had made only feeble efforts to colonize America. There was a rash of problems hinging on a mix of religion and politics? King Henry VIII?had broken with the Roman Catholic Church in the 1530s, brining the Protestant Reformation to England and thus creating religious division. When Elizabeth I became queen, England moved decidedly in the Protestant direction. This also meant Catholic Spain was an immediate rival.

New World Beginnings

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History of North America
Hopi tribe
Native American history
Puebloan peoples
Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire
Indigenous peoples of the Americas
Francisco Vásquez de Coronado
aztec
La Noche Triste
Native Americans in the United States
Conquistador

New World Beginnings The Shaping of North America Recorded history began 6,000 years ago. It was 500 years ago that Europeans set foot on the Americas to begin the era of accurately recorded history on the continent. The theory of ?Pangaea? exists?suggesting that the continents were once nestled together into one mega-continent. The continents then spread out as drifting islands. Geologic forces of continental plates created the Appalachian and Rocky Mountains. The Great Ice Age thrust down over North America and scoured the present day American Midwest. Peopling the Americas The ?Land Bridge? theory? As the Great Ice Age diminished, so did the glaciers over North America.

HIstory Notes

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united states
John D. Rockefeller
Marathon Oil
Rockefeller Foundation
Rockefeller family
Booker T. Washington
American Federation of Labor
Feminist movement
US History

Chapter 25 Notes Rockefeller Grows an American Beauty Rose -Kerosene was the first major product of the oil industry. But, the invention of the light bulb rendered kerosene obsolete. - By 1900, the gasoline-burning internal combustion engine had beaten out its rivals as the primary means of automobile propulsion. The birth of the automobile gave a great lift to the oil industry. -John D. Rockefeller organized the Standard Oil Company of Ohio in 1870, attempting to eliminate the middlemen and knock out his competitors. By 1877, he controlled 95% of all the oil refineries in the nation. -Rockefeller grew to such a great power by eliminating his competitors.

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