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Randy Cires AP Lang- Period 2 Mrs. Quiroga January 4, 2016 Sitting at the Round Table for Progress
American culture
Randy Cires AP Lang- Period 2 Mrs. Quiroga January 4, 2016 Sitting at the Round Table for Progress
Chapter 1 - Brinkley 13th edition
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Chapter One Review Notes (Pd. 6) Reasons for expansion/imperialist efforts: Gold ( in Asia) Spanish gains from expansion- Land Tobacco Trade Cultural interchange Gold importing Formal political strongholds in the new world England vs. Spain Sir Francis Drake in the ?Singeing of the King of Spain?s Beard? (Destruction of the Spanish Armada) Spanish Armada Undermining efforts towards Spain?s economic power in the new world (i.e. luxurious natural resources) Political Structures/Presence in the New World Viceroys/Audiencias/Peninsulares Creoles: Citizens born at colonies by settlers Mestizo: Mixture of Spanish/Native American Mulatto: Mixture of Black/Spanish Native Americans: Driving labor force in the New World
American Identity
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Cosmopolitanism, Ethnicity and American Identity: Randolph Bourne's "Trans-National America" Author(s): Leslie J. Vaughan Source: Journal of American Studies, Vol. 25, No. 3, Ethnicity in America (Dec., 1991), pp. 443-459 Published by: Cambridge University Press on behalf of the British Association for American Studies Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27555542 . Accessed: 10/11/2014 10:03 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of
Chapter 4
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Chesapeake An area home to the first American colonies, profitable to tobacco farmers. headright system Whoever paid the passage of a laborer received 50 acres. indentured servant Whites who sold their labor for 5-7 years for passage to America. Nathaniel Bacon A white planter who led a rebellion, killing natives and burning Jamestown. Governor Berkeley The Virginia governor who punished the rebels of Bacon?s troop. Middle Passage The transatlantic sea voyage bringing slaves to the New World. Royal African Company A company that lost its monopoly in selling slaves to the colonists. ringshout A West African religious dance that contributed to the development of jazz. ?FFVs? First Families of Virginia, which dominated real estate and legislature.
Questions on Chapter 4: American Political Culture
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Roman Caposino September 27th, 2013 Chapter IV Questions AP Government & Politics The textbook defines a political culture as ?a patterned and sustained way if thinking about how economic and political life ought to be.? The nature of the political culture of our country is that democracy, majority rule, and minority rights are good things. A political ideology is a set of beliefs put forward by a government, and political culture is how people?s opinions on the political ideology changes based on real life events. Americans believe people should be equal politically but not economically, whereas in France or Great Britain, the belief tends to be the opposite. The Political System: Liberty: Rights of freedom.
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CULTURAL CONFLICTS BETWEEN WHITE EUROPEANS AND NATIVE AMERICANS White Europeans: used the land for economic needs clearing the land, destroying hunting areas and fencing it off into private property dividing the land and selling it for monetary value. Vs. NATIVE AMERICANS: Relationship with environment as part of their religion Need to hunt for survival Ownership meant access to the things the land produced, not ownership of the land itself.
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Chapter 1 Study Guide Questions
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AMERICA BEFORE COLUMBUS (3-11) 1. Identify and describe the elaborate native civilizations that developed in South and Central America and in Mexico. 2. Why did Europeans consider the Indians they met to be "savages," regardless of their cultural achievements? 3. Describe the way of life of the North American Indians-where they lived and how they supported themselves. 4. What were the three largest language groups, and where did their speakers live? 5. Describe the changes taking place among North American Indians during the century before Europeans arrived. EUROPE LOOKS WESTWARD (12-25) 6. Why was there little incentive for other Europeans to follow after the initial voyage to America by Norse sailors? 7. What changes stimulated the Europeans to look toward new lands?
Steinbeck
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Steinbeck uses this background information on California to show a social criticism, that history will always ending up repeating itself. At one point the land of California was stolen from Mexicans by the squatters but now wealthy landowners were being stolen from migrant farmers or ?Oakies?. This shows how nothing will change no matter how much times have changes or realities differentiate. The significance of Grandma?s funeral shows you how little the Joad?s or the ?Oakies? funds they could scoot by on. Not even the simplest of necessities could be met outside of food and water; this really highlights that desperation of the time period.
ap us government
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nation-state - The modern form of political society that combines centralized government with a high degree of ethnic and cultural unity. "No dense concentrations of population or complex nation-states...existed in North America...." matrilinear - the form of society in which family line, power, and wealth are passed primarily through the female side. "...many North American native peoples, including the Iroquois. developed matrilinear cultures...." confederacy - An alliance or league of nations or peoples looser than a federation. "The Iroquois Confederacy developed the political and organizational skills...." primeval - Concerning the earliest origin of things. "...the whispering, primeval forests...."
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