Identify the 15 most significant events in APUSH (moreso throughout US history)
Answer:
1492 Columbus arrives
-begins Columbian Exchange
-Spain sends conquistadors & Armada
-Spain sets up encomiendas (missions like in CA & others)
1587 -Sir Walter Raleigh Roanoke Island
-disappeared by 1590 “Lost Colony”
1588 -England defeats Spanish Armada
-England becomes superpower begins colonization soon after
1607 Jamestown
-Joint Stock Company investor-backed
-backer company Virginia Company
-Captain John Smith leader
-martial law instituted for survival
1609-1610 desperate times
- Powhatan Confederacy aides Jamestown
-tobacco cash crop, saves colony from extinction
-Chesapeake becomes name of surrounding area
-indentured servants – popular and useful
-1618 headright sys. 50 acres given to a plantation owner who sponsored ppl over to America
1619 House of Burgesses first government in colonies
-white property-owning males could vote
-slavery begins in the English colonies
1620 Separatists leave England accidentally
arrive in Massachusetts in “Mayflower”
-settlement called “Plymouth”
-Mayflower Compact government established, power not from God but from governed
-received aid from local Indians to further the settlement
1629 Mass. Bay Colony Congregationalists John Winthrop “City on a hill”
-Puritan and Calvinist ideas
ex. of religious intolerance
-Roger Williams banished
-created Rhode Island free religion
-Anne Hutchinson
1629-42 Great Puritan Migration
1649-1660 little immigration because England was mainly Puritan
1635 Connecticut gets charter for being a colony
-Maryland Lord Baltimore haven for Christians & Catholics
1649 Act of Toleration protects Christians
1685 New York = colony
-Pennsylvania William Penn Quaker
-Carolina (proprietary) split into NC (Virginia-like colony) and SC (settled by people from Barbados)
-proprietary colonies usually became royal colonies (king-controlled)
Salutary Neglect 1650-1750 Britain was hands-off on American colonies; gave America autonomy
1670’s Bacon’s Rebellion
-settlers v. Indian = issue
- Governor Berkeley - corrupt, elite group gets best land, fail to protect backcountry farmers
- Nathanial Bacon - led frontier farmer in raids against "Indians" / burned Jamestown, drove out Berkeley
-led to creation of Black Codes, can't control white indentured servants
Explanation:
Decided to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Advocated development of Hydrogen Bomb Refused to drop atomic bombs on China
Answer: President Harry S. Truman
Explanation:
The actions given were all undertaken by former President Harry Truman after he took over from President Roosevelt when the latter died in the last year of the second World War.
Truman decided to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki after he realized that a land invasion would cost too many lives. He also supported the development of the Hydrogen bomb which was worse than the atomic bomb and during the Korean War, he refused to drop atomic bombs on China because he saw that it would escalate the conflict.
For what reasons were many colonies granted independence after World War II? Check all that apply.Recognition of universal human rightseconomic growth in Europepressure from United Nationsgrowth of nationalismpromises made to colonies during the warEuropean economic weaknessdecline in nationalism
Answer :Some colonies took advantage of the situation right away, while others worked with their rulers for a gradual process toward independence. But in the decades following WWII, dozens of countries claimed their independence.
Explanation:
how did the Watergate Scandal affect the U.S. Government and the people?
Continuation, if not an acceleration, of the trend toward more independence of party identification among voters – and, as a consequence, a threatened breakdown of the two-party system.
Former Attorney General Elliot Richardson puts it this way: "Watergate has made one significant contribution, at least to the extent that there are many officeholders who are becoming convinced that honest politics – open, candid politics – is the best politics."
Much the same thought comes from the Senate's No. 2 Republican, Robert Griffin, of Michigan: "I think we should have learned that we do have to have an open Presidency and that the people need to know what is going on."
It shattered America's respect for the President's office and ushered in a new era on cynacism about politics. What was the impact on the relationship between Congress and the President? It became more hostile. The president was brought down by Congress, who had threatened to remove him through impeachment.
In what ways did human societies forever change after the Neolithic
Revolution?
A. Societies became sedentary and unequal social classes emerged
B. Societies became nomadic and unequal social classes ended
C. Societies became divided and religion gave way to atheism
D. Societies became more peaceful and learned to speak one
language
Answer:
Societies became sedentary and unequal social classes emerged