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| What does Brands' law on migration state? |
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Definition
| Happy stays home. This means that those who are contend with their social and political situation stay where they are versus those who are unhappy with their situation seek a new place to change it. |
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| What did migrants coming into the New World believe? |
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Definition
| That they had always been there and had no idea there are others besides them or that there was a world outside of America. Narrow perspective. |
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| Europeans arrived in the New World to discover a dwindling population of Native Americans, what did they take from this? |
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Definition
| Europeans arrived in the New World to discover a dwindling population of Native Americans due to disease. They took this as a sign of God, that he had cleared the way for them to arrive and settle there, it justified their reasons to colonize. |
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Term
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Definition
Ideals/ideas versus material interests.
Principle: Material interest is NOT enough. People need to believe in what they are doing as well. Versus…Religion alone would NOT have sustained the colonial investment and settlement, their had to be material interest to spark migration. BOTH drive history. |
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Term
| What occurred to the people who arrived in the New World? |
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Definition
| They did not intend to stay, but many ended up doing so. i.e. the Puritans were waiting on reformation of the Church of England. |
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Term
| What are the reasons behind the driving force of history? |
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Definition
| Motives of the government and individual. |
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Term
| What was different in the colonization of the British versus the Spanish and French? |
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Definition
British government allowed individuals to colonize vs. the Spanish and French government was the driving force behind colonization.
This led to America's individualistic and self-reliant DNA. American colonies were established by the will of people, whereas other countries evolved over time. |
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Term
| What is Brands' law on foreign policy? |
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Definition
| Eventually every country gets the foreign policy it can afford. i.e. the Spanish and their gold |
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Term
| Where era was Benjamin Franklin born in? What era did he die in? |
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Definition
| Benjamin Franklin born in an age of superstition and died in the Age of Reason. Superstition represented by Salem Witch Trials, reason represented by founding of American Republic, which was created by rational will, not organic evolution. |
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Term
| What were some of the differences between Europe and America? |
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Definition
| Europe has scarce land, plentiful labor. America has scarce labor/plentiful land → this shapes social order, promotes American slavery due to the scarcity of labor. |
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Term
| What caused Benjamin to run away from home? |
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Definition
| Ben was an apprentice for his brother James, who ran a newspaper. Ben began to write under the pseudonym of Silence Dogood and when he revealed this to his brother, he took it to his father who told Ben he must obey James. Ben thought this as an infringement on his liberty as an American, this led to him running away from home and going to Philadelphia, a haven for religious and political dissent. |
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Term
| Why did Benjamin use the guise of Poor Richard's Almanac? |
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Definition
| Benjamin had established himself as a respectable business through his creation of the Pennsylvania Gazette and title of Post Master. Poor Richard’s Almanac originated as a filler and BF used it as a device for letting himself say things under the guise of Richard that the respectable Benjamin Franklin could not say. |
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Term
| What is a theme in politics? |
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Definition
| In a democracy, everything eventually becomes political because democracy is about the people and their wants and needs enter politics. |
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Term
| What did the Anti-Propieter Party led to for BF? |
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Definition
| BF became involved in the protest against taxation on the colonists and this caused the Pennsylvania Assembly to choose him as the agent who represented the colonists in London. |
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| How did the British prevent settlement in the West? |
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Definition
| The government refused to legitimize land claims and titles. |
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| What is Brands' prediction? |
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Definition
| If the electoral college chooses differently from the what the public decided, then the opposing party will cause an uproar and abolish the Electoral College. |
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Term
| What is the first indicator of who will win an election? |
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Definition
| The economy. Incumbents get kicked out of office when the economy is bad and they get reelected when the economy is doing well → gives the false impression that the President has anything to do with the economy. |
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Term
| What is Brands' Theory on Politics? |
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Definition
| That people vote emotionally rather than basing it on what they think. |
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| What is Brands' third law? |
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Definition
"People go to church on Sunday, but they eat every day.”
-->The material circumstances of life are the dominant concern in people’s life. |
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Term
| What are some paradoxes surrounding the Presidency? |
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Definition
Paradox #1: It's always the economy, stupid. Gives the false impression that the President has anything to do with the status of the economy.
Paradox# 2: All Presidents want a second term to earn the stamp of approval from the people, but they shouldn't want it. 2nd terms turn out badly. Partly because voters are fickle and they have high expectations, for the person they elect → the energy and idealism of the first terms burns out during the second term
Paradox #3: Don't dare to be great or a hero. Most great presidents resided in office during a difficult time in history. They rise to great challenges. → Gave them reasons to exercise great power and Americans rarely want the status quo to be broken. |
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Term
| What classifies a revolution? |
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Definition
| Big changes in the way things work that happen abruptly vs. Evolution: Big changes that happen over time. |
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| What were the repercussion of the Boston Tea Party? |
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Definition
| The increase of British army in the colonies, they were their to impose the crown's authority, and the Intolerable Acts. |
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Term
| What is a fundamental principle of war? |
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Definition
A war is over only when the loser says it is over.
-->Americans did NOT have to win; they only had to avoid losing because, for the British, the war was elected not essential |
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Term
| How revolutionary was the American Revolution? |
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Definition
| Not so revolutionary. It severed ties between Britain and the US, but the ruling classes and social hierarchy were still the same. → No overturning of the whole system. |
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Term
| How was the Revolution philosophically revolutionary? |
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Definition
| Self-evident truths and all men are created equal. As well as, the belief that people had to the right to abolish or alter their government. |
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Term
| What did the states have to deal with after the Revolution? |
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Definition
1. States were burdened with great debt --> French Revolution.
2. States found themselves in competition with one another → disunity; states would impose tariffs on other states to protect their individual market.
3. States had problems with asserting their authority; boycotts and riots broke out. |
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