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AMSCO AP US History Chapter 3 Study Guide with Complete Solutions English cultural domination - Answer️️ -In the 18th century, cultural life in the colonies was dominated by English culture. Architecture, painting, and literature were strongly influenced by the English. (p. 50) Benjamin West - Answer️️ -Painter who went to England to acquire the necessary training and financial support to establish himself as a prominent artist. (p. 51) John Copley - Answer️️ -Painter who went...

AMSCO AP US History Chapter 12 Study Guide with Complete Solutions manifest destiny - Answer️️ -The belief that the United States had a divine mission to extend its power and civilization across the breadth of North America. (p. 230) industrial technology - Answer️️ -After 1840, industrialization spread rapidly throughout most of the Northeast. New factories produced shoes, sewing machines, ready-to-wear clothing, firearms, precision tools, and iron products for railroads and other...

APUSH AMSCO CHAPTER 12-13 KEY TERM STUDY GUIDE WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS free-soil movement - Answer️️ -opposed the expansion of slavery in new states (particularly out west) ; subcatagory of the Republican party who were also abolitionists ; popular during the late antebellum period ; Abe Lincoln was the most influential person of this political party free soil party - Answer️️ -Formed in , dedicated to opposing slavery in newly acquired territories such as Oregon and ceded Mexica...

APUSH AMSCO Chapter 18 Study Guide with Complete Solutions Columbian Exposition - Answer️️ -Held in 1893 in the city of Chicago, it's purpose was to display the White City's downtown area and the fairgrounds along with the progress of American civilization such as new industrial technologies. "old" immigrants - Answer️️ -The majority of them arrived before 1880 and they came almost exclusively from Western Europe and the British Isles. They had a high level of literacy and occ...

AMSCO AP US History Chapter 23 Study Guide with Complete Solutions Warren Harding - Answer️️ -In November 1920, he was elected the 29th president of the United States. He was a Republican whose slogan was: "Return to Normalcy". His term was marked by scandals and corruption, although he was never implicated in any of the scandals. In August 1923, he died while traveling in the West. (p. 475-476) Charles Evans Hughes - Answer️️ -A former presidential candidate and Supreme Court j...

Amsco APUSH Unit 6 Study Guide with Complete Solutions Homestead Act of 1862 - Answer️️ -Offered 160 acres of land free to a family that settled it for 5 years Sodbusters - Answer️️ -Peopel that built their homes of sodbricks. The first people on the plains. The plains did not have trees Frederick Jackson Turner - Answer️️ -Wrote "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" having the frontier gave hope but when it was closed and settled, class division was immine...

AMSCO AP US History Chapter 1 Study Guide with Complete Solutions corn - Answer️️ -The Mayas and the Incas cultivated corn as an important stable food supply. (p. 2) horses - Answer️️ -It was not until the 17th century that the American Indians acquired these animals from the Spanish. (p. 4) disease - Answer️️ -When Europeans came to America they brought smallpox and measles to which the natives had no resistance. Millions of American Indians died from these diseases. (p. 8) ...

APUSH AMSCO Period 3 Study Guide with Complete Solutions Seven Years' (French and Indian) War - Answer️️ -fought between the colonies of British America and New France, with both sides supported by military units from their parent countries of Great Britain and France, as well as Native American allies "No Taxation Without Representation." - Answer️️ -a phrase, generally attributed to James Otis about 1761, that reflected the resentment of American colonists at being taxed by a...

APUSH Amsco Period 3 Study Guide Patrick Henry - Answer️️ -spoke for many when stood up in the House of Burgesses and demanded that the King's government recognize the rights of all citizens including that of the colony, not to be taxed without representation Stamp Act Congress - Answer️️ -reps from 9 colonies met in New York in 1765, resolved that only their own elected representatives had the authority to approve taxes Sons and Daughters of Liberty - Answer️️ -secret society...

Amsco APUSH Chapter 25 Study Guide with Complete Solutions Good Neighbor policy - Answer️️ -FDR's foreign policy of promoting better relations w/Latin America by using economic influence rater than military force in the region Pan-American conferences - Answer️️ -US pledged in Uruguay 1933 to -never again intervene w/ internal Latin American affairs In Buenas Aires 1936: warned if Germany started shit then the hemisphere WOULD come together + combat it Soviet Union recognized - ...