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African slave trade

APUSH Free Response 2013

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AP? United States History 2013 Free-Response Questions About the College Board The College Board is a mission-driven not-for-profit organization that connects students to college success and opportunity. Founded in 1900, the College Board was created to expand access to higher education. Today, the membership association is made up of more than 6,000 of the world?s leading educational institutions and is dedicated to promoting excellence and equity in education. Each year, the College Board helps more than seven million students prepare for a successful transition to college through programs and services in college readiness and college success ? including the SAT? and the Advanced

Serving Time in Virginia After the Fact

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History of early Virginia is difficult, as there are few documents, and they aren't always trustworthy. ? Virginia was America's first representative assembly? Brought tobacco to England en masse? Captain John Smith had wrote a history of Virginia titled A Generall Historie of Virginia? Smith was generally pretty good with telling the truth, but his perspective is definitely his own, so that has to be kept in mind ? Was Smith completely truthful?? Most powerful person in region? Powhatan was the leader of a confederacy of Indians-Algonquian Indians? Virginia Company was rough in the beginning. ? 75k pounds invested to send 2k settlers. ? Happened through a joint stock arrangement? King James sent his special silkworms over. ? Went to the New World in hopes of profit. ?

American Pageant ed. 13: Chapter 16 Main Ideas

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Chapter 16 Cotton is King p. 350 Before Eli Whitney?s cotton gin slavery was diminishing, but after it became a profitable business, the South produced half the world?s supply of cotton, and believed that England would support the south if civil war broke out. The Planter ?Aristocracy? p.351 Families owning more than 100 slaves were considered wealthy aristocrats, the new plantation also gave women the role of commanding the female slaves of the house. Slaves of the Slave System p. 352 The cotton plant ruined the soil and thus wealthy farmers were constantly in search of new land, cotton provided the South with a one-crop economy which needed slaves in order to survive. The White Majority p. 353

chapter 3

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? PAGE ?1? CHAPTER 3: THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN AMERICA, 1660-1750 THE POLITICS OF EMPIRE, 1660-1713 The Great Aristocratic Land Grab: Charles II gave land of the Carolinas to aristocratic friends, and the land between the Delaware and Connecticut rivers to his brother James, Duke of New York. The administrators of the new colonies created traditional social order, consisting of a gentry class and an established Church of England. The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina (1669) set down regulations of a manorial system. (See terms) South Carolina remained a poorly governed and violent-stricken settlement until the 1720?s due to conflicts with Indian slaves. Pennsylvania was a place for Quaker refugees to flee to after persecutions in England occurred.

A People and a Nation chapter 3 outline

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European Expansion of the colonies 9/30/13 8:57 AM Portuguese are first Europeans to use slave labor in New World Cheap labor is critical to economic development and success b/c they used the plantation model Slavery already occurring in Africa Sell each other to Portuguese who would send Africans to the New World This trade encourages African city states to conquer others to sell as slaves In North America, native tribes would conquer smaller tribes and sell them to Europeans in exchange for other goods. Conquered natives would work on plantations or farms. Encouraged native peoples to attack their enemies to capture or enslave them to trade them Iroquois gain more control in North Eastern N. America Production of rice Grows as a cash crop when slave labor is introduced

Chapter 4 apush

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Chapter 04 - American Life in the Seventeenth Century I. The Unhealthy Chesapeake 1. Life in the American wilderness was harsh. 2. Diseases like malaria, dysentery, and typhoid killed many. 3. Few people lived to 40 or 50 years. 4. In the early days of colonies, women were so scarce that men fought over all of them. The Chesapeake region had fewer women and a 6:1 male to female ratio is a good guide. 5. Few people knew any grandparents. 6. A third of all brides in one Maryland county were already pregnant before the wedding (scandalous). 7. Virginia, with 59,000 people, became the most populous colony. II. The Tobacco Economy 1. The Chesapeake was very good for tobacco cultivation. 2. Chesapeake Bay exported 1.5 million pounds of tobacco yearly in the

Unit 3

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1450-1750 Early Modern Period Major Developments I. Questions of Periodization A. Major points 1. Shift in power to the West a. Rise of the West with fall of China and India creates imbalance in power that favors Europeans for next 200 years 2. World becomes smaller ? almost all civilizations touched by trade 3. New Empires ? Spain, Portugal, England, France, Netherlands, Ottoman, Russian, Mughal, Ming 4. Age of Gunpowder B. Changes at end of Postclassical Era 1. Independent societies (Aztecs, Incas) falling apart 2. Arab power declining 3. New invasions ? Mongols 4. Ottoman Empire gains power a. Europeans threatened by new force to East 5. Chinese flirt with trade, but Ming bureaucrats pull back 6. Europe enters age of exploration

APUSH American Pageant 14th Edition Chapter 4 Outline (DETAILED)

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Name Teacher AP U.S. History 10 September, 2013 Chapter 4 American Life in the Seventeenth Century The Unhealthy Chesapeake Life of Americans living in the Wilderness Life was hard, short, and very unforgiving for the earliest of settlers in the Chesapeake. There were many diseases like malaria, dysentery, and typhoid that the settlers encountered. The diseases and harsh life shortened life expectancy of the settlers by as much as 10 years for newcomers from England. There was slow population growth during the 1600s in the Chesapeake. Most immigrants were young males from England. Many of them died after arrival from England. There were very few women, and most men could not find mates. There were very few families. The Colony endures its struggle.

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Chapter 16 The World Economy I. Introduction A. What are consequences of? 1. Voyages of Columbus 2. Exploration of Europeans 3. Empires built by European conquerors/missionaries B. Consequences 1. Power shift 2. Redefinition of interchange D. Patterns of diffusion 1. Classical ? developing regional economies/cultures ? Medit./China a. External conflicts existed, but not that important 2. Postclassical Era ? contacts increase a. Missionary religions spread b. Interregional trade key component of economies ? bet. continents c. Some regions dominated trade ? Muslims then Mongols 3. 1450-1750 ? Eve of the Early Modern Period a. New areas of world brought into global community ? Americas b. Rate of global trade increased ? Southeast Asia

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