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world still exist. As early as 1510 in the Americas, unmarried women and young girls were being traded away to serve as slaves for wealthy families. For example, a native born Aztec named Malintzin was sent to serve for a noble family living in the state of Tabasco at the gulf of Mexico. As a young girl, Malintzin was always uncertain of her future, constantly adjusting to foreign areas, and learning several different languages. Spaniard traveler Hernando Cortes used her as his personal interpreter

are crafted by each state of the United States to require school attendance for children of certain ages. Five states require students to begin school at age 5, thirty-two mandate school attendance at age 6, and a small number allow children to wait until reaching 8 years old. All children must continue education through high school, with twenty-six states setting the benchmark at 16, and others at 17 or 18. Various exceptions may apply on a state-by-state basis. Most states require students to study

1640's (Masur 4). In the seventeenth century, the Anglo-American world began to rely less on public executions and more in favor of private punishments. The possible decline in popularity of

Progressive Era Objectives: Identify and understand how reform movements changed society Identify and understand how women influenced change Identify and understand the impact of Presidential policy upon America Change comes to the United States In the beginning of the 20th Century, a movement called Progressivism began to improve American society. The Progressivism movement had four major goals: A) To protect social welfare by fixing the various problems of city life. Organizations

The United States of America, a symbol for freedom and liberty throughout the world, was built upon the backs of millions of vulnerable slaves. By the time we became a country in 1776, slavery was engrained in many of our founding fathers minds as the source of economic wellbeing. Each state, community and individual had their own ideas about the institution and whether it was morally or constitutionally right. It is one of the highest debated topics in the history of our country. Slavery, controversial

According to the National Institute of Justice (n.d.) “the United Nations defines human trafficking as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of persons by improper means (such as force, abduction, fraud, or coercion) for an improper purpose including forced labor or sexual exploitation.” The U.S. government defines human trafficking in two different ways. The first is sex trafficking in which commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person

AP NSL EXAM ESSAY STUDY GUIDE 2011 1. The United States Supreme Court receives many appeals, but it hears and rules on a small percentage of cases each year. Numerous factors influence the actions of the Court, both in deciding to hear a case and in the decisions it hands down. a. Define judicial review. Judicial review is a power held in the Supreme Court to declare legislation, laws, bills, acts, and executive orders unconstitutional. b. Explain how judicial review empowers the Supreme

AP United States History Test Answer Explanations: 1996 1. The principal motivation for drafting the Bill of Rights was the desire to: Protect rights not specified in the Constitution. The correct answer (B) was chosen by 93% of test takers. 2. Which of the following statements about the “American System” is correct? It was designed to meet the nation’s need for economic progress and self-sufficiency. The correct answer (D) was chosen by 70% of test takers. 3. In 1861 the North

generation, it wove itself into every aspect of life. Apartheid was a radical and extreme extension of segregation originating in colonial conquest in the seventeenth century by the Dutch (known as Boers or Afrikaners) and English. Apartheid was separation by race and

mental illness and its treatment goes as far back as Greek Mythology. The belief about mental illness has changed throughout history and at times thought to be due to, possession of demons, reversion to an animalistic level of consciousness, a sinful state of the soul, a chemical imbalance, and as reported recently in the medical journal Nature and Genetics, a defect in chromosome number six (at least as far as schizophrenia is