HIST 1068 Midterm: AAWII- midterm study packet with all lectures
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America and the world ii: midterm study packet. How has it behaved: 2] us in/to/and the world- the many ways us has influenced/impacted the world. Merchants and their products, aka capitalists: 3] the world in/to/and the us- how the world has influenced us. How the ripples come back to the us. Main focus: social, cultural, economic, and political history. Lecture 1: the young republic in the world (1. 25. 16) The 3 themes talking ab american identity & nationalism. Answer is partly material (boundaries and borders) and partly ideological. Overwhelmingly agrarian 3% pop lives in town w/ pops > 8,000. 10% of non-na pop live west of appalachians. Looks a lot like the way thomas jefferson wanted it to look: had a specific vision of republicanism- not related to td"s gop. Model of politics existing since ancient greece. Form of democracy that says every individual has unalienable rights that cannot be voted away.
