Category: American History

What are the marital relationships like between Victoria Woodhull and Colonel James Blood, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Henry Stanton? What role does sex play in their marriages?

 

How are women’s friendships portrayed in this book? What about sisterhood, such as that between Victoria Woodhull and her sister Tennie? How would you describe Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s relationship with Susan B. Anthony?

What are the marital relationships like between Victoria Woodhull and Colonel James Blood, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Henry Stanton? What role does sex play in their marriages?

How does Freydeh Levin create a new family for herself after the loss of her husband, parents, and younger sister? Do you think she was right to enter the kind of business that she did? Did she have a choice?

How do the circumstances of his upbringing influence Anthony Comstock as an adult? Do you find him to be a sympathetic character in any way?

” What other connections did feminists draw between the abolition of slavery and women’s rights? What obstacles did they encounter when they tried to get abolitionists to support their cause?

How did her views on subjects such as free love hurt her campaign? Do you think a woman running for president today would face the same kind of prejudices?

What hardships did Freydeh Levin encounter as a Jewish immigrant in Post-Civil War New York? How were immigrants perceived at the time? Have these perceptions changed?

Freydeh Levin is thrown into jail for manufacturing condoms. Another character, Madame Restell, is arrested for giving women abortions. What were the moral and legal attitudes toward contraception and abortion in late 19th-century America? Do you think these issues are as controversial today?

Some of the censorship laws enacted by Anthony Comstock’s Society for the Suppression of Vice are still on the books today. What do you think Marge Piercy is saying about such censorship in this book?

 Explain how abolitionists upheld the Declaration of Independence as the foundation of antislavery and abolitionist thought. Assess if abolitionists were responsible reformers or irresponsible agitators?

The Abolitionist Movement

Read the following primary source

https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.11801100/?st=gallery

Then, address the following:

Assess if abolitionists were responsible reformers or irresponsible agitators?

Explain how abolitionists upheld the Declaration of Independence as the foundation of antislavery and abolitionist thought.

Assess the effect of the Gag Rule on the Abolitionist Movement.

Analyze how the women’s rights movement would gain momentum from the antislavery movement.

 

Analyze the effects of the ideology of Manifest Destiny on the two historical events that you chose from the list.Which of your two selections do you consider most impactful on Westward Expansion during 1800-1848? Explain why.

For the initial post, pick two (2) of the following historical events:
The Lewis and Clark Expedition
The Missouri Compromise
Independence of Texas
Mexican War of 1846-1848
The California Gold Rush

Then, address the following for your selections:
Which of your two selections do you consider most impactful on Westward Expansion during 1800-1848? Explain why.

Analyze the effects of the ideology of Manifest Destiny on the two historical events that you chose from the list.
Writing Requirements

 

Do you think this could ever be enough? Why or why not? Give 3 specific examples from the novel Journey Home, by Yoshiko Uchida to support your opinion.

Journey Home

World War II is raging. Yuki and her Japanese- American family are forced from their home in California and imprisoned in a U.S. concentration camp called Topaz. After months of unbearable life in Topaz, Yuki and her family are finally released and can begin their “journey home”.

Write your response in at least 5-10 complete sentences. You may use your book to answer these questions.

Journey Home is filled with hardship and struggle for Japanese- American families, like Yuki’s. Give 3 specific examples of discrimination and violence that Yuki and her family face.

In 1988, President Ronald Reagan states, “We admit a wrong,” and issues an official government apology for the wrongful forced removal and incarceration of Japanese immigrant and Japanese Americans. Every living survivor receives a letter of apology and $20,000… for their losses. Do you think this could ever be enough? Why or why not? Give 3 specific examples from the novel Journey Home, by Yoshiko Uchida to support your opinion.

 Explain the origins of slavery in the American colonies, (2) the realities of slavery (e.g. their lives, abuse, economies, etc), (3) and its role in causing the Civil War, referencing at least two Conflicts or Compromises that resulted in the Civil War.

Explore slavery in US History.

Explain the origins of slavery in the American colonies, (2) the realities of slavery (e.g. their lives, abuse, economies, etc), (3) and its role in causing the Civil War, referencing at least two Conflicts or Compromises that resulted in the Civil War.

Describe changes in the economy as a result of improvements in transportation; factory work; banking and law. What were the risks involved in investing in the money market?

Answer the follow questions.

Write a brief paragraph in which you describe the differences of opinion among the regions of the United States over the issues of the Louisiana Purchase, the War of 1812 and the entry of Missouri as a new state. Are there any patterns? If so, any reasoning behind them? Why would some regions of the country be “for” something, and “against” something else?

Describe changes in the economy as a result of improvements in transportation; factory work; banking and law. What were the risks involved in investing in the money market?

What was the Second Great Awakening? The Temperance Movement? Abolition Movement? Identify the relationship among these movements and speculate about why they became increasingly involved in the abolition of slavery as it intensified in years to come.

Explain how systems of hierarchy and assumptions about social status (status differences) inform and support Winthrop’s conception of a “Christian community” in Puritan New England. How do underlying systems of hierarchy effect his moral argument? In other words, is his moral argument still compelling or workable when hierarchy is accounted for?

The Communitarian Dream

Explain how systems of hierarchy and assumptions about social status (status differences) inform and support Winthrop’s conception of a “Christian community” in Puritan New England. How do underlying systems of hierarchy effect his moral argument? In other words, is his moral argument still compelling or workable when hierarchy is accounted for?

Although few Americans today would point to communitarianism as their American Dream, most Americans do report today a strong sense of isolation and alienation, and a strong desire to belong and be recognized and understood by society and by their communities. Explain how social status and hierarchies in the United States today prevents us from taking Winthrop’s ideal community seriously as a goal for our current American Dream. Does his argument on accepting difference and “divinely ordained” differences have purchase in today’s American culture? Why or why not?

Identify 2 concerns each side deemed important.Explain why the Federalists did not want a Bill of Rights, but the anti-Federalists did.

Assignment Content

Imagine it is 1787. Like many people living in the United States, you hold strong beliefs about the ratification of the proposed U.S. Constitution and have concerns about how this proposed government will affect your community. Being a civic-minded citizen, you have decided to compile and distribute information about the proposed U.S. Constitution.

Differentiate between the Federalist/Anti-Federalist positions.
Identify 2 concerns each side deemed important.
Explain why the Federalists did not want a Bill of Rights, but the anti-Federalists did.
Defend your viewpoints on the issues.

 

Explain how and why traditional interpretations of Mexican-American women negatively affects their current circumstances and perceptions of self from a political, economic, or biological standpoint in the United States and how that issue can be addressed and/or solved.

Explain how and why traditional interpretations of Mexican-American women negatively affects their current circumstances and perceptions of self from a political, economic, or biological standpoint in the United States and how that issue can be addressed and/or solved. Choose one idea and defend it with reasons, examples, details, chains of logic, the primary text, and academic secondary sources. Cite the latter two types of evidence appropriately in-text.