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One MAJOR idea from 1491-1607 is that we see the rise of European influence in the Americas. We have the English establishing colonies like Jamestown. We have the Spanish with their encomienda systems and their settlements. We have the Dutch and New Amsterdam. Perhaps most significant was how different the lives of Native Americans were becoming. The Columbian Exchange brought disease which decimated their population. The Indians also gained new technologies such as the gun and wheel, as well as horses. For the Europeans, they got maize and other crops from the Native Americans, significantly changing their diet and increasing their health.
The Americans resented their mistreatment (taxation without representation) after the French & Indian War, but they had won and weren't involved in a war in 1775. The Russians were reeling from their 1905 loss to the Japanese and they were suffering from WW1 in 1917.
<span>The americans rebelled against King George III, who was depicted as a tyrant, although he wasn't really all that bad. The Russians rebelled against Czr Nicholas II, who was quite a tyrant. </span>
<span>By July 1776 the Americans wanted independence and self-rule; by November 1917 the Russians wanted a worker-run state and self-rule. </span>
<span>American leaders were mostly wealthy landowners and businessmen; Russian leaders were a middle-class lawyer (Lenin), newspaper writer (Trotsky) and a bank-robber/soldier (Stalin).</span>
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The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce and laid a foundation for the nation's first consumer protection agency, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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The domino theory was a Cold War policy that suggested a communist government in one nation would quickly lead to communist takeovers in neighboring states, each falling like a perfectly aligned row of dominos.