The Declaration of Independence

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Discuss the rise of industrial America and establish the new role of capital and labor in the industrial society by 1900

  1. Discuss the rise of industrial America and establish the new role of capital and labor in the industrial society by 1900
  2. Directions:
    Answer the following questions in ONE clear and concise essay.  First establish your thesis statement, then provide substantial details as evidence.  Document your sources with endnotes or footnotes.  Do not submit a bibliography.
    Question:  Discuss the rise of industrial America and establish the new role of capital and labor in the industrial society by 1900. Why did capitalist ideology become dominant by 1900 and how did it change society within the United States by 1900? (Within this answer remember to include relevant data from the topics:  Reconstruction and the  rise of the new industry in both the South and West and the “Conquering of the West).  Include in your discussion data on the basic and fundamental components of the ideology of capitalism and how capitalist ideology conflicts with the ideology of individualism that had prevailed prior to 1900?
  3. Document your work with either footnotes or endnotes.
  4. Use OPEN stax textbook, data from films, websites and outside scholarly sources.
  5. First start with your thesis statement and then document with substantial and relevant details.

What was radical Reconstruction? 

What was radical Reconstruction?

The Era of Reconstruction,1865–1877

Instruction:

For this  homework, answer ONE of the provided questions. You are also required to answer question base on the attached document. 350-400 words excluding references, APA format and a minimum of 3 references.

1.  What was radical Reconstruction?  Was it radical?

2.  Did Reconstruction address the problems of race?  Explain.

3. What the most important historical legacy of Reconstruction?

4.  Did Reconstruction fail?  Why or why not?

See attached document for reading

 After the Fact called, Serving Time in Virginia.

This week you will be reading a chapter from After the Fact called, Serving Time in Virginia. It focuses on the very high mortality rate in early Virginia.

In this chapter the authors of the book want to address:  what are the challenges that historians’ face when working with documents?  What is the potential problem with John Smith’s Autobiography?  What challenge does the short government proclamation about planting corn and not tobacco present?

So first you need to read the chapter, and then answer the following 3 questions:

  1. What experiences did John Smith write about? How much veracity is there to what he recorded about his experiences?
  2. Who was Sir Edwin Sandys, and how did his policies and reforms impact the colony?
  3. Why was labor critical to the boom economy, and in what ways did planters acquire that labor? What kinds of abuses did the labor system spawn?

 

The assignment is worth 50 points (and if you go above and beyond you can earn 10 points of extra credit).

  • Each answer should be a paragraph to several paragraphs long and fully address all parts of the question
  • This assignment is due on Sunday, no late work is accepted.

Attached is a sample of a very good After the Fact answer from an actual student in U.S. History

What factors enabled the Spanish to conquer the Aztec and Incan empires in Central and South America with relative ease in the 16th Century

Students must submit one of these essay topics in paragraph form through the Assignments Tab if Canvas by the deadline specified in the Syllabus and in Assignments.  It is worth fifty points. The essay should be 1 1/2 to 2 pages in length (approximately 300-500 words). Be sure to cite properly, as per the MLA Format every time that any information is directly copied (and quotation marks are needed), paraphrased (writing someone else’s ideas in your own words) or for any facts that are not common knowledge (like “the sky is blue”).  Be sure to provide a works cited section with a bibliographic citation of each source used; be sure to include the Date Accessed is the date that YOU previewed a particular website or watched a Youtube video because website/video content can change.  As per the syllabus, students must use a minimum of two sources that are to be cited in the body of the essay as well as the works cited section be counted for a grade.  Please consult the syllabus for more information. 

Please note that the textbook is an acceptable source for both of the identification terms:

David Shi, America: A Narrative History, Volume 1, Eleventh Edition. New York:  W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2019.

Essay 1 (From Chapter 1)

What factors enabled the Spanish to conquer the Aztec and Incan empires in Central and South America with relative ease in the 16th Century (meaning 1500’s)?  Give an introductory paragraph briefly summarizing the conquest of one of these two empires. Write another paragraph about the Spanish advantages in military technology, and a fourth paragraph about such biological factors as the animals used by the Spanish and the effects of disease on the Native Americans.  Be sure to give specific examples of the leaders (both Spanish and Native Americans), weapons, diseases, and events to support your case.  Finally, write a concluding paragraph where you summarize this information and provide your own thoughts and ideas.

History.com Editors, “Aztec capital falls to Cortes.”   History, A&E Television Networks August 19, 2019.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/aztec-capital-falls-to-cortes  Date Accessed:

History.com Editors, “Pizarro Executes the Last Inca Emperor.” History, A&E Television Networks

July 27, 2019  https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/pizarro-executes-last-inca-emperor

No Author Listed, “Guns Germs and Steel Variables: Horses.”  Lion Television 2005.

https://www.pbs.org/gunsgermssteel/variables/horses.html  Date Accessed:

No Author Listed, “Guns Germs and Steel Variables: Smallpox.”  Lion Television 2005.

https://www.pbs.org/gunsgermssteel/variables/smallpox.html  Date Accessed:

Harvey, Ian, “Spanish Conquistadores used advanced armor and weaponry to their advantage.”

The Vintage News February 3, 2017.

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/02/03/spanish-conquistadors-used-advanced-weaponry-and-armor-to-their-advantage/  Date Accessed:

Kings and Generals, “Aztecs: Arrival of Cortes and the Conquistadores.”  October 11, 2018.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suRAVIndO4Y  Date Accessed:

Kings and Generals, “Spanish Conquest of the Incan Empire.”  June 7, 2018.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPm8E-zWwsQ  Date Accessed:

Essay 2 (From Chapter 2)

Discuss Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676.  Be sure to write three paragraphs, with one discussing the major causes of the rebellion, another paragraph narrating the major events of the rebellion, and a third and final paragraph about the consequences of this rebellion.

Blakemore, Erin, “Bacon’s Rebellion: Why America’s First Colonial Rebels Burned Jamestown to the Ground.”

August 8, 2019.  https://www.history.com/news/bacons-rebellion-jamestown-colonial-america

Date Accessed:

McCulley, Susan and Loux, Len, “Bacon’s Rebellion.”  NPS.gov  February 26, 2015

https://www.nps.gov/jame/learn/historyculture/bacons-rebellion.htm  Date Accessed:

Jocz Productions, “Bacon’s Rebellion APUSH Review.”  June 9, 2014.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQa2zIJ81Ow  Date Accessed:

Write an epilogue to ” The Cask of Amontillado”

Write an epilogue to ” The Cask of Amontillado” in which a case against Montresor comes to trial.  In your epilogue, provide the prosecuting attorney’s closing argument, reminding the jury of any evidence that proves Montresor’s guilt.  Then provide the defense attorney’s closing argument and describe the jury’s final verdict.

Assignment Requirements:
Your submission must:

  • include a minimum of 400 words, written in paragraph form.
  • be written in the third-person point of view (academic voice). You may write in the first-person point of view if you want to pretend you are Montresor.
  • be double spaced.  A title page, running head, and abstract are not required.
  • be submitted as a Microsoft Word attachment on the submission page (click title above).  Assignments not submitted in this way may be returned to you ungraded.

What arguments and strategies did the abolitionists use in their struggle to end slavery?

You are required to answer ONE question in each section. Be sure to include as many details and historical specifics as possible to support your answer. Each answer should be 3-5 paragraphs in length (a complete essay with an intro, body, and conclusion). You must use citations and include course materials to support your response. Questions come directly from our course readings and materials.

Section 1: Answer ONE

1. How did Andrew Jackson change the office of the presidency? Who benefited under Jacksonian democracy? Who suffered?

2. Would the Industrial Revolution in the early 19th century have been possible without the use of slave labor? Why or why not?

3. What were the aims of the women’s movement of the 19th century? How successful were women in the achieving of these goals?

4. What arguments and strategies did the abolitionists use in their struggle to end slavery? Who opposed them and why?

Section 2

Answer ONE

1. How did plantation crops and the slavery system change between 1800 and 1860? Why did these changes occur?

2. Why did the North prevail in the Civil War? What might have turned the tide of the war against the North?

3. What role did women and African Americans play in the Civil War?

4. In 1860, the institution of slavery was firmly entrenched in the United States; by 1865, it was dead. How did this happen? How did Union policy toward slavery and enslaved people change over the course of the war? Why did it change?

The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st C

Section 1, Lectures 1 – 6; Section 2, Lectures 1 – 4 and Thomas Friedman’s text (2007), The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st C [3.0] Chap 1 through Chapter 8, pg. 348. In this course material, there are some views of the process and impact of globalization that are in agreement between lecture and Friedman’s book, and others where differing view points are explored.  In Section 2, Lecture 1, pg. 16 Taken from several sources, I wrote that “..advocates of population control share a concern for mass migration of the poor to their countries as well as for social unrest that could upset economic and political stability in the countries of the periphery.” After considering the materials you have read so far in this course, (listed above), address the following questions in your essay exam: In his book, Thomas Friedman discusses and analyzes what he calls “10 flatteners” and a ‘triple convergence’ that are, in his opinion, central aspects of the process of globalization in the 21st C. 1. From your reading so far, list the global “10 flatteners” that he presents. Identify what a “flattener” and a ‘triple convergence’ actually are according to Friedman. Briefly, how does he define the process of each? 2. Explain how Friedman portrays (through his own writing and other people’s views that he includes in support of his position) the impact of the ‘flattening of the world’ on the global movements of people (emigration, legal and illegal immigration) to America and Western Europe. 3. Compare and contrast his position, and others that he includes, with the views reflected in the lectures you have read so far. (See pg. 2)  – 2 – As you write your essay, do not argue from emotion. Identify and evaluate your position and statements based on the materials you have read so far. And, keep in mind that this is not a place to argue your personal views on politics, history, or economics. Use your reading materials to validate your arguments. Again, be specific.

What major aspects of Mr. Plunkitt’s approach to politics do you approve of and/or disapprove of?

What major aspects of Mr. Plunkitt’s approach to politics do you approve of and/or disapprove of?

This document sheds an unfiltered light on politics in the Gilded Age by detailing the famous / infamous career of a New York City politician. Plunkitt’s views provide a window into this era and the fundamental transformations reshaping the country and redefining what it meant to be an American.

Answer the following three (3) questions in an essay a MINIMUM length of Two (2) FULL Pages.

1. What does this document reveal about the nature of American politics in the Gilded Age? Please be specific.

2. What major aspects of Mr. Plunkitt’s approach to politics do you approve of and/or disapprove of? Why? Please be specific.

3. Are there parallels with this primary document from the early 1900s and the nature of politics and role of politicians in modern society today? In what specific ways?

Cause and impact on Shay’s Rebellion in the early years

Cause and impact on Shay’s Rebellion in the early years

Read the primary sources and answer the questions below in 2 paragraphs. Use examples from the textbook and the primary sources to create and explain your answer. Be specific.

What was the cause and impact on Shay’s Rebellion in the early years of the American Republic? How did American individuals react to the rebellion around the nation?

USE PRIMARY SOURCES 1&2 for answer.

#1

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=262

#2

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=170