When World War I began, people believed that the conflict would be over in a matter of months. If the U. S were to start a war, how long do you think it would last? In 1914 French unionists and revolutionaries aligned with the government to show their patriotic unity. In what ways can U. S citizens show patriotic unity?
How do the different tones of the excerpts each reflect the attitude of the French people at the time?
What changes have taken place in the general public’s opinion with regard to war as a result of the World War I experience?

the committees of correspondence were the american colonies’ means for maintaining communication lines in the years before the revolutionary war. in 1764, boston formed the earliest committee of correspondence to encourage opposition to britain’s stiffening of customs enforcement and prohibition of american paper money. the following year, new york formed a similar committee to keep the other colonies notified of its actions in resisting the stamp act. in 1773, the virginia house of burgesses proposed that each colonial legislature appoint a committee for intercolonial correspondence. the exchanges that followed built solidarity during the turbulent times and bring about the formation of the first continental congress in 1774.

a. by accepting the election of president abraham lincoln in 1860 and convincing other southern states to do the same

barrio is a spanish word meaning neighborhood. in spain, several latin american countries and the philippines, the term is also used officially to denote a division of a municipality while a ghetto is a part of a city in which members of a minority group live, typically as a result of social, legal, or economic pressure. the term may have originally been used in venice to describe the part of the city to which jews were restricted and segregated.