Written Guided Reading Assignment 1 Andrew Workman 1. How did the Western Hemisphere and the “Old World” impact each other through the exchange of plants, animals, and pathogens? The Western Hemisphere, or the “New World”, and Europe, the “Old World”, impacted each other through the exchange of plants, animals, and pathogens by transforming the farming methods, diets, and population of both regions. The greatest impact was the transmission of infectious diseases from the Europeans among the Native…
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HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS winter, European courts and diplomats were moving ever closer to war. It would prove larger, more brutal, and costlier than anyone anticipated, and if would have an outcome more decisive than any war in the previous three centuries. Historians usually call it the Seven Years' War. Modern Americans, recalling a few disconnected episodes — Braddock's defeat, the Fort William Henry "massacre," the Battle of Quebec — know it as the French and Indian War. Neither name communicates…
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Benjamin Martin (Mel Gibson), hero of the war in France and India, renounces to war forever, to live with his family in peace though smart, efficient and ferocious soldier, he marries a beautiful woman who gives him seven children and under their influence changes his violent past for a peaceful future in their vast plantations. The peaceful life the family leads is interrupted when gestated an independence rebellion against England. Benjamin Martin a former soldier in South Carolina, 1776, recently…
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Revolutions across the world have numerous causes and effects. These causes and effects can be short-lived and closely contained or lasting and global. The economic causes and effects of a revolution can be some of the most important. No revolution no matter how small or large will be conducted without some sort of economic factors. These factors are also numerous and all-encompassing and include wealth inequality, political corruption for economic gain, poverty, and unethical economic policy. To understand…
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against colonists. Originally, things in the colonies had been fine up until the Seven Years War, a costly and pyrrhic victory for the crown of Britain. The American colonists enjoyed their separation from the absolute rule of Britain and didn't have any issues as far as being their colony, for the most part, people liked it a lot. Britain as well enjoyed it, they got what they needed, money, trade, and tobacco. The British allowed the colonists many freedoms in exchange for some of the colonists rights…
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trespassing on Virginia land. What did the French and Indians do to Fort Necessity? During the French and Indian war at Fort Necessity the French and Indians injured and killed a third of George Washington’s men. How did the Iroquois feel about the French military presence around the Great Lakes? They figured that the French military presence would serve as a deterrent against the colonist westward expansion therefore benefitting them. Who turned the Seven Year’s War around in favor of the British…
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2.When and why did Europeans “discover” the Americas? What were the chief features of the Spanish Empire in America? The French and Dutch Empires in America? What was the relationship between the European explorers and colonists and the native peoples? Reasons for discovery: Prosperity in Europe, Growing European populations, Desire for a shorter trade route, Advances in sailing, renaissance, Christianize the heathen, consolidation of European monarchies. Ferdinand and Isabella sent Columbus…
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and work for them, killing those who did not comply”. The Spanish inferior views of the native americans were very prominent throughout their actions and writing, for example, Bartolome de Las Casas, a Spanish Dominican priest describes the Tenochtitlan invasion as “the Spaniards first assaulted the innocent Sheep, qualified by the Almighty, like most cruel tigers, wolves, and lions”. He infers how the Native American people are prey to the Spaniards and how they are willing to take their land and…
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1) Who were the Puritans and how did Puritans organize their local communities? Why did the religious fervor of New England Puritans decline after 1660? How did the Salem witch episode reflect the tensions and changes in seventeenth-century New England life and thought? The Puritans were a group of people who grew discontent in the Church of England that had a profound influence on the social, political, ethical, and theological ideas of England and America. Puritans immigrated to the New…
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Jonathan Herrick TR 11 am homework assignment The impact of the American Revolution on the Native Americans The American Revolutionary War did not begin with the "Shot Heard 'Round the World". It had its roots in the very first settlements in North America.The American Revolution divided the Iroquois Confederation and brought a miasma of death and destruction into the heart of a union and the newly formed Americas. The Iroquois were a large indian tribe that had relations with the Mohawk…
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