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HIST 405 - Historical Essay As with anything in this world there are always strengths and weaknesses when people are comparing two different items, as no one item can be a perfect solution; there are always compromises. The same happens when we are comparing the Articles of Confederation and the New Constitution of 1787. Both of these two solutions each have their own strengths and weaknesses. First we have the Articles of Confederation that when written gave each state a lot of individual p...

Slavery and Freedom in America by Edmund S. Morgan

The Preemption Act of 1830 allowed squatters to stake out claims ahead of the land surveys Anti-Irish prejudice was especially based upon fear of growing Catholic influence The Know-Nothings campaigned primarily to limit immigrant influence A radical wing of the Jackson Democratic Party was also known as the Locofocos Ironically, the Jacksonian era was characterized by growing economic and social inequality The Jacksonian concept of equality was a belief t...

APUSH All Test Questions+ Answers. 100% verified. Rated A. latest update. Before the coming of Europeans, the peoples who lived in what is now the United States had not developed - A common language The first European country to launch long ocean voyages of exploration was - Portugal When Christopher Columbus made his famous voyages to the New World, he - Believed that he had reached the Far East The Spanish conquest of the Aztecs was, in part, due to - The diseases the Spaniards...

Essay 1: PROMPT In a paper of roughly five pages make an argument about the cause of the rise of plantation slavery in North America. In particular, answer this question: how did colonists legitimate a hierarchy over enslaved people of African descent? You have read three different arguments about this question. All three authors make arguments about the kinds of social control necessary to make plantation slavery workable. Michael Guasco has argued that slavery was an accepted form of hie...