History 2301E Final: Study notes American history.doc
22 Mar 2012
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Columbian exchange: the biological encounter of the old and new worlds. Europeans brought to the new world disease, horses, cattle, sheep, swine, chicken, coffee, sugar cane with them and brought back to europe with them; corn, potatoes, beans, tomatoes, squash, chocolate, canoes, hammocks. Overall the exchange of crops enriched human diets and made possible enormous population growth. Gettysburg address: speech made my abraham lincoln after the battle of gettysburg. New deal: this was the name of the economic plan implemented by franklin d. roosevelt during the great depression of the 1930s. This new deal involved more government involvement in the economy and was made up of different laws, agencies, public work programs, business regulation, and securing banks. This new deal benifited working people, small farmers and others at the low end of the economic scale. Mccarthyism: accusation of disloyalty, treason etc. without evidence. Mccarthy was a politician that accused several democrats of being communist during the 1950s.
