DONT ANSWER IF YOU DONT KNOW!! Task #1:
Research each event and write two or three sentences explaining why this event is important and how it affected America. Be sure to write your answers in your own words and do not copy directly from the websites.

Task #2:
Explain why you believe American might be different if this event had not occurred.

List of important events in American History:

1820 – Missouri Compromise

1820 – Maine becomes a state

1820 – U. S. presidential election, James Monroe re-elected president, Daniel D. Tompkins vice-president.

1821 – Missouri becomes a state.

1823 – Monroe Doctrine proclaimed.

1824 – U. S. Presidential election, 1824: results inconclusive

1825 – John Quincy Adams elected president by The House of Representatives; John C. Calhoun becomes vice-president

1825 – Erie Canal completed

1826 – Former presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams die within hours of each other on Independence Day

1828 - South Carolina Exposition and Protest published during the Nullification Crisis

1828 – Baltimore and Ohio Railroad construction begun

1828 – U. S. presidential election

Which of the following statements best describes the spread of communism in the years immediately following world war ii? a. the number of communist countries increased during these years. b. the number of communist countries decreased during these years. c. the number of communist countries stayed the same during these years. d. the number of communist countries increased in asia but decreased in europe. ( answer in the format above for me to understand)

Which of the following best describes us involvement in the korean peninsula today?

Question 1 (1 point) five score years ago, a great american, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the emancipation proclamation. this momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. it came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. but one hundred years later, the negro still is not free. one hundred years later, the life of the negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. one hundred years later, the negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. one hundred years later, the negro is still languished in the corners of american society and finds himself an exile in his own land. and so we’ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. in the first paragraph of this passage, which literary technique does mlk use? question 1 options: a. this is an example of personification because it compares segregation to being in chains. b. this is an example of hyperbole because it gives it gives human characteristics to segregation. c. this is an example of allusion because it references the language used in the emancipation proclamation, which freed slaves in 1863, 100 years before this speech was presented. d. this is an example of onomatopoeia because he uses the words seared and withering to describe the injustices experienced by african americans.