HISTORY 40B Midterm:
Document Summary
The primary source is written down by people who we living at that time and attended the events. It is usually a personal account of the events described in the text. How certain historians view specific events that occurred in history. The science of reaching conclusions from the events that occurred in history. The boundaries of the american state were from the east coast to the mississippi river. On the left of the mississippi river is louisiana, which was owned by the french and acquired by the us in 1803. This purchase of land extended the us"s boundaries left until the spanish territory. At the time citizens who had the right to vote were white landowners, this excluded the majority of the country"s population. Therefore democracy was only applied to a very small fraction of the population. Even though the constitution states that all men are created equal, in practice, not all men (and women) were treated equally.
