Category: American History

Explain if it was possible for the United States to maintain neutrality in World War I. If yes, explain how. If no, explain why not.Trace the origins of World War I, and assess if the world war was inevitable in 1914?

World War I
Review the following resources:

Link (video): A War to End All Wars: Part 2 (6:56)
Link (library article): The Treaty of Versailles and the Rise of Nazism
Then, address the following:

Trace the origins of World War I, and assess if the world war was inevitable in 1914?

Explain if it was possible for the United States to maintain neutrality in World War I. If yes, explain how. If no, explain why not.

Analyze if the United States should have entered World War I to make the world safe for democracy.

Analyze if the Treaty of Versailles was a fair and effective settlement for lasting world peace.

Explain if the United States Senate should have approved of the Treaty of Versailles.

Compare and contrast the settlement of the following colonies Virginia and Massachusetts bay. In your discussion, be sure to mention the nature of the colonies’ relationships with the local native American peoples they encountered and dealt with.

Compare and contrast the settlement of the following colonies Virginia and Massachusetts bay. In your discussion, be sure to mention the nature of the colonies’ relationships with the local native American peoples they encountered and dealt with.

How does your metaphor or term express intergovernmental interdependence (or the lack of) in how tiers of government interact?

American Federalism

Some considerations are: how does your term reflect the nature of relationships across tiers of government?

How has power and responsibility for policies and programs shifted to existing arrangements?

What are related to legal, political, or administrative aspects?

How does your metaphor or term express intergovernmental interdependence (or the lack of) in how tiers of government interact?

Demonstrate an understanding of the nature of the American federal system, course learning objective

Demonstrate an understanding of the nature of public, private, and nonprofit organizations and how they interrelate, and course learning objective

Demonstrate an understanding of changes in the federal system and the bearing of these changes on state and local government, and the private and nonprofit sectors.

Analyze if the South should have been treated as a defeated nation or as rebellious states.Explain how the American culture and society changed in the North versus the South during Reconstruction.

Reconstruction and the Compromise of 1877

Analyze if the South should have been treated as a defeated nation or as rebellious states.

Explain how the American culture and society changed in the North versus the South during Reconstruction.

Analyze the impact of the Compromise of 1877 that ended Reconstruction on African-Americans.

 What possibilities does the book suggest? Explain. What matters does the book leave out? Explain. How have your opinions about the topic changed?

Identify two or three themes or arguments within the book that you would like to focus on.

Describe the book: Is it interesting, memorable, entertaining, instructive? Why?

What do you agree with? And why?

What do you disagree with? And why?

What possibilities does the book suggest? Explain. What matters does the book leave out? Explain.

How did the book affect you?

How have your opinions about the topic changed?

How is the book related to your own course or personal agenda.

 

Analyze if the United States Supreme Court can settle legal and moral issues through judiciary review. In your response, provide a documented example of a modern parallel of a legal or moral issue settled by the United States Supreme Court.

Stepping stones to the Civil War

Based on the historical facts given in this module, assess if the American Civil War was inevitable.

Analyze if the United States Supreme Court can settle legal and moral issues through judiciary review. In your response, provide a documented example of a modern parallel of a legal or moral issue settled by the United States Supreme Court.

Compare your selections and analysis of selections with those of your peers. If they chose different events, examine how yours are similar and/or different. If they chose the same events, build on their posts by providing additional information about the events that you have not already noted in your own post.

Text Book
https://openstax.org/books/us-history/pages/1-introduction

Links
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/brief-overview-american-civil-war

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraID=7&smtid=1

How different were women’s lives in the colonial period from our lives today? What have been the most significant changes for American women? Consider a few aspects of life such as work, marriage, motherhood, family, education, health, etc.

How different were women’s lives in the colonial period from our lives today? What have been the most significant changes for American women? Consider a few aspects of life such as work, marriage, motherhood, family, education, health, etc.

 

 

Discuss 3 events/issues in American history whose interpretation would be substantially altered if the roles of women in them or their effects upon women were included alongside the “traditional” (more male-oriented) interpretations.

Discuss 3 major themes of particular relevance to women that should be traced through the history of American women. Explain why these themes are invaluable for an understanding of women in American history.

Discuss 6 important women that might appear at various points in the survey (persons profiled may be “great,” or typical but obscure, but together they should provide a representative sample of various significant types of American women, over time).

Discuss 3 events/issues in American history whose interpretation would be substantially altered if the roles of women in them or their effects upon women were included alongside the “traditional” (more male-oriented) interpretations.