In 2008, Barack Obama was the first African American elected president of the United States. full detailes in the file attached.OBAMADiscussion.docx Discussion: The Election of Barack Obama In 2008, Barack Obama was the first African American elected...
1. The discussion for this week is on the video clip on New York's growing trade and manufacturing in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The prompt for this weeks discussion is: What change described in this video had the greatest impact on New...
As you have seen from the readings, sources, and media this week, the U.S. became an industrial society. This meant businesses needed not only workers to support their industrial might, but also overseas markets to increase profits. Using all of this week’s...
1. Comparing and Contextualizing Totalitarianism, Analyzing the context of Totalitarianism Read Primary Sources 19.1, 19.2 and 19.3 and answer the following: How does Arendt's view of totalitarianism apply to the three subsequent documents? To which...
Mark Twain referred to the late 1800s as the Gilded Age. What did Twain mean by this, and do you think this is an accurate label for the period? Why or why not?
1. Watch this video on the Boxer Rebellion Links to an external site.(https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=Y-18lUI8ZBnuxhxe&v=JSe8FmYlYdk&feature=youtu.be)Review this website https://omniatlas.com/maps/asia-pacific/19000616/Links to an external site. These...
How did Salem witchcraft trials reflect attitudes toward women, and the status of women in New England? Why were colonial New Englanders willing to believe the accusations? And finally, what contemporary parallels are there to the Salem witchcraft trials?
Prompt: "The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) and the Native corporation system have been good for Alaska Natives." The complexity of the ANCSA was good to Alaska Natives for the most part because it was a fair settlement for them. Since the land...
"The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) and the Native corporation system have been good for Alaska Natives". The reason that I say this is because what I have been reading is that the Alaska Natives have said themselves that it was a good...
“In preparing for the Cherokee removal, state and federal officials were motivated solely by desire to seize the natives’ land.” This statement does not present the full picture of the event as there were underlying reasons as to why the officials...
In order for the statement to present the full picture it could read as :In preparing for the removal of the native Cherokee's, the local and federal governments gave them no option, they wanted their land and resources on their land. The Cherokee people were...