TEST BORRADO, QUIZÁS LE INTERESE: Topic 46
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Topic 46 Descripción: The history of the US. WAR OF INDEPENDENCE, CIVIL WAR, ETC Autor:
Fecha de Creación: 11/09/2024 Categoría: Oposiciones Número Preguntas: 60 |
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The............... ................... refers to the political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which Thirteen Colonies of North America overthrew the governance of the British Empire and then reject the British monarchy to become the sovereign United States of America. When did the British recognize the United States' independence and sovereignty?. What does the United States Bill of Rights (1789) comprise ?. The constitution enshrined the natural.......... idealized by republican revolutionaries and guaranteed them under a relatively strong .............. government, as well as allowing for dramatically expanded...........for national elections. The American Civil War started in 1861 and ended in ?. How many states declared their secession from the US in the American Civil War?. Was Ulyssess S.Grant a unionist or confederate?. What brought about the start of the American Civil War (1861-1865)? The creation of slavery The expansion of slavery Lincoln's campaign against the expansion of slavery beyond the states in which it already existed. Was Robert E. Lee a unionist? No YES. In which city did the British surrender in the War of Independence?. Which country entered the American Revolution on the side of the colonists in 1778?. The French and ............ War, or Seven Year's War (1756-1763), brought new territories under the power of the crown, but the expensive conflict led to new and unpopular taxes. CAUSES OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. Colonial resistance led to violence in 1767, when British soldiers opened fire on a mob of colonists, killing five men in what was known as the ........... Massacre. After December 1773, when a band of Bostonians altered their appearance to hide their identity boarded British ships, and dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor during the .......... ......... ........... An outraged Parliament passed a series of measures (known as Intolerable, or ................... Acts) designed to reassert imperial authority in Massachusetts. Which battles signified the start of the Revolutionary War?. Who were the first delegates at the beginning of the War of Independence? George Washington, Samuel Adams, Patrick Hay and John Jay Patrick Leclare, George Washington, John Donne, Samuel Weirth. The ........... .................. ................ did not go so far as to demand independence from Britain, but it denounced taxation without representation, as well as the maintenance of the British army in the colonies without their consent. All these historical events affected and influenced two of the most representative works of the time and that will be analyzed in this paper; ... ........... ...... and ..... ....... ......... .. ......... What was voted to be adopted On July 4t,1776?. The American victory of S......... would prove to be a turning point of the American Revolution, as it prompted France to enter the war openly on the American side. Great Britain formally recognized the independence of the United States in the T...... .. ........ (1783). How long did the War of Independence last?. The Civil War resolved two fundamental questions left unresolved by the revolution:whether the US was to be a d................. confederation or sovereign states or an............. nation with a sovereign national government. A common explanation is that the Civil Waw was fought over the moral issue of slavery. In fact, it was the .................. of slavery and ..............control of that system that was central to the conflict. CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR. A key issue was s............. .............. The Southern states wanted to assert their authority over the federal government so they could abolish federal laws they did not support, especially, laws interfering with the South's right to keep slaves and take them wherever they wished. CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR. Another factor was .............. ................. The South wished to take slavery into the western territories, while the North was committed to keeping them open to while labor alone. CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR. Although slavery was the main issue that led to the outbreak of the American Civil War there were other ........ for the conflict. People in the north lived in big cities while southerners lived isolated on farms. European immigrants chose to live in the northern states where they could get better jobs and where the economy developed more quickly. The southern states also demanded more r............ from the ................ government. How many states fought for the confederacy?. Most of the war was commanded by two great generals: Ulysses Grant was the commander of the ......... army while Robert Lee was the military head of the ................ Who was this man?. Who was this man?. THE COURSE OF THE CIVIL WAR. The war was fought in two battlefronts. One was in the eastern states, mostly V.........,M..............., P............... While the other front was along the M.................River in the west. THE COURSE OF THE CIVIL WAR. The war took a high toll among soldiers, mostly because they were .............. young men, who had not fought before. Many soldiers died because they lacked the proper ...............care and food. THE CIVIL WAR....... ........... .. ............... was one of the major battles in war, as well as its turning point. Robert's Lee Confederate army suffered its worst defeat. In 1863, the Union took control of the whole Mississippi River. . THE CIVIL WAR. Finally, Ulysses Grant, who commanded the northern armies, forced Lee's Confederate army to surrender in April ....... Who killed Lincoln five days after the end of the civil war?. In the middle of the Civil War, on January1st, 1863, Abraham Lincoln freed all salves in an order called.. .............. ............. Link arrows The independence of the US The single political entity of the US freedom for more than 4 million enslaved Americans a more powerful and centralized government The foundation of America's emergence as a world power in the 20th century Boston Massacre Patrick Henry Battle of Lexington and Concord. What did the 13th Amendment abolish?. what did the 14th Amendment give?. What did the 15th Amendment give?. Who wrote histories of Virginia based on his experiences as an English explorer and the president of the Jamestown colony?. LITERARY BACKGROUND. Who wrote books on religion, a topic of central concern in colonial America?. What is the name of the earliest collection of poetry written by Anne Bradstreet in and about America?. What did Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay write?. Link arrows Benjamin Franklin Philis Wheatley Washington Irving Olaudah Equiano James Fenimore Cooper Nathaniel Hawthorne Stephen Crane. James Fenimore Cooper, the first American to achieve an international reputation as a professional novelist, gave American literature two mythic figures, N......... B...............and Chingachgook, which provided him with the creative focus that Cooper needed. ........ is the lonely hunter, straining to live in the wilderness according to a Christian code of conduct derived from a profound consciousness of primary natural beauty. Which Author does it correspond to? His justification for writing was simple and robust: under the guise of light fiction, the reader could be informed and instructed. Cooper's first success was ......... ............ (1821) a fictionalized account of the Revolution war. It is striking Cooper's deliberate injection of a constant moral dilemma. . ............(1823), combines 3 elements: his family recollections of the social life of a frontier settlement; a romantic story of star-crossed lovers; and the tragedy of the old hunter, Natty Bumppo, and his Indian Companion, Chingachgook. With .. ............ ..... ..... ............., he established the genre of the "Leatherstocking" tales, a 5-volume series celebrating the career of a great frontiersman named Natty Bumpoo. His skill in weaving history into inventive plots and in characterizing his compatriots brought him acclaim not only in America and England but in the European continent as well. The immediate inspiration behind the story of Cooper's ....................... is to show that America has an ancestral history; a history of violence and slaughter and human cross-purposes; a history of a precarious civilization built on the ruins of a shattered idyll of the primitive. ................ .................... suffered such guilt and shame on account of this background and this is reflected in his works in which he attacks the rigors of Puritanism, bearing in mind that he lived where the strictest Puritanism was established during the previous century. Who wrote The Snow-Imagemm, Twice-Told Tales?. Who wrote The House of the Seven Gables (1851) and The Blithedale Romance (1852)?. NOVELS OF REFERENCE. Set in seventeenth-century Puritan Massachusetts, the novel centers around the travails of Hester Prynne, who gives birth to a daughter, Pearl, after an adulterous affair. Hawthorne's novel is concerned with the effects of the affair rather than the affair itself, using Hester's public shaming as a springboard to explore the lingering taboos of Puritan New England in contemporary society. NOVELS OF REFERENCE................'s novel offered a uniquely American style, language, set of characters, and --most importantly--a uniquely American central dilemma. ............... takes advantage of his greatest assets as a writer--the interiority of his writing, his exploration of thoughts and emotions--an uses them to humanize all the parties involved in the affair, as well as to demonize the thoughts that become consumed by it. LINK ARROWS Public guilt vs. Private guilt Punishment vs. Forgiveness The Scarlet Letter Sin and Judgement Civilization and Wilderness. Which novel does this explanation correspond to? Taking place during the American Civil War, the story is about a young private of the Union Army, Henry Fleming, who flees from the field of battle. Overcome with shame, he longs for a wound to counteract his cowardice. When his regiment once again faces the enemy, Henry acts as a standard-bearer who carries a flag. The novel is known for its realism and naturalism. Known for its distinctive style, which includes realistic battle sequences as well as the repeated use of color imagery, and ironic tone. Crane's story reflects the inner experience of its protagonist (a soldier fleeing from combat) rather than the external world around him. Also notable for its use of what Crane called a "psychological portrayal of fear". THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE. LINK ARROWS (themes) The Indifference of Nature The individual vs. the Group Courage and Cowardice The Reality of War Coming of Age Honor Death. |
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