One way of tying this chapter's material together is to analyze the major developments that molded life in Colonial America and their subsequent legacy to the future American experience
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER: Students should discuss the impact of immigration on society, indentured servants, the changing role of women in colonial society, and the importation of African slaves. They should connect slavery's continuing legacy on southern society and the Great Awakening's contribution to the beginning of the nation's long religious diversity as well as to the American tradition of protest and challenge to the established political and social authority.
They should especially note the ideas stemming from the Enlightenment, specifically those of John Locke, which form the basis for revolution against a government that no longer respects individual rights to life, liberty, and property. The cost of the Great War for Empire thus will cause Great Britain to seek a way to pay for the war, from which the colonies seemed to derive the most benefit, thus conflicting with those ideas of a social contract.
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Examine the debate between imperialists and anti-imperialists over acquisition of the Philippines, and explain why the imperialists prevailed.
What will be an ideal response?
The term high-tech lynching refers to
A) Clarence Thomas's allegations of racism during his confirmation hearings. B) the lack of African American computer technicians in Silicon Valley. C) the use of the Internet to reveal private details about public officials. D) a rash of identity theft in the late 1990s. E) the use of the Internet to live stream Congressional hearings to the public.
The Great Awakening of the 1700s
A) came in response to a decline in religious piety B) depended exclusively on powerful evangelists from England C) healed the divisions that had grown up between existing congregations D) had little impact in the colonies
What event sparked the revival of the Ku Klux Klan?
a. President Wilson appointed an African American minister to Haiti. b. A Roman Catholic ran for governor of Louisiana. c. A Jew was accused of rape in Georgia. d. The film The Birth of a Nation was released.