The Latino Americans – Early Years
Watch both episodes and share your thoughts about the early years of Latino American history. Discuss the early years as compared to today. Refer to readings (cite) in your response.
Here are the links to the videos:
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Book Link:
Legacies of the Renaissance and Reformation
Explain the legacies of the European Renaissance and Reformation movements and assess the impact of these legacies on the 21st century.
Include in your analysis a discussion of the historiography of the period (Refer to Burckhardt and Von Ranke). How does their interpretation of these events differ from modern interpretations of these events?
The importance of the Harlem Renaissance and the role it played on the political and cultural front of the lives of African-Americans of that time as well as a way for them to display their own expression.
Chapter 14
How did African Americans respond to emancipation as news spread across the South?
How did southern whites respond to the end of the Civil War?
What event brought Reconstruction to an end?
Why did Johnson not punish former Confederate leaders for their role in causing the Civil War?
What was Lincoln’s plan to treat Confederate officials?
Chapter 15
What was Credit Mobilier?
The landscape of the Great Plains encouraged the establishment of what?
Economic expansion in the far West after the Civil War relied heavily on what?
What incited the Indian wars of the 1860s?
Senator Henry Dawes’ beliefs about Indian integration into white society failed to recognize what about Indian values?
Why did African American men choose to enlist in the U.S. Army to serve in the West?
Where did the Chisholm Trail start and end?
What were the conditions of the Homestead Act?
Why did frontier women participate in the temperance movement?
Why did the Mormon Church abandon polygamy?
Chapter 16
Why were Horatio Alger novels popular?
What did Congress desire to do with the passage of the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Rapid industrialization was enabled by what kind of relationship between business and government?
What was needed to develop the national market for raw materials and finished goods?
What was the key to the transformation of the former Confederacy to the “New South”?
Why were farmers and rural residents able to participate in the new consumer culture of the late 19th century?
Advocates of the free maker argued that what was the key to success?
What did trusts destroy?
How did businessmen of the Gilded Age believe the government protected their rights?
How did the numbers of white-collar workers change between 1870 and 1910?
Approximately how many African Americans were lynched between 1884 and 1900?
According to James Bryce, what was to blame for the mediocre cast of presidential candidates during the Gilded Age?
Who were the majority of unskilled workers during the Gilded Age?
Chapter 17
How did the growth of manufacturing affect skilled tradesmen?
Which entertainment sites appealed to the working class?
Why did married women do “piecework” in their homes?
Why was there a high rate of child labor at the turn of the 20th century?
Jazz music developed from diverse musical traditions where?
Why did many Jews come to the U.S. from Russia?
Chapter 18
Where did the majority of immigrants come from around 1907?
Which groups were at the bottom of the racial hierarchies invented by biologists in the early 20th century?
What did eugenicists believe?
What did the devastating fires in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in cities such as Chicago lead to?
What was the Hull House and who founded it?
Why were immigrants loyal to party bosses and machine politicians?
Chapter 19
What was the main purpose of the Civil Service?
Ida Tarbell exposed what?
Which demographic group did Progressives generally come from?
Which Progressive Era feminist sought women to compete on equal terms with men by freeing them for domestic chores?
How did W.E.B. Du Bois differ from Booker T. Washington?
Why did some women oppose women’s suffrage?Why is the Mann Act significant?
President Roosevelt’s intervention in the Pennsylvania coal strike suggested his willingness to do what?
Why is Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle important politically?
Which president introduced racial segregation to the federal government?
The results of the 1912 presidential election suggested Americans wanted what?
What were the strategies of NAWSA and the NWP? Which did Wilson ultimately support?
What are the cardinal virtues of the Cult of True Womanhood?
What was the first public meeting to discuss women’s rights in the United States?
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Editorial assignment
Looker T. Washington, “Atlanta Compromise” (1895), .
W.E.B. DuBois, “Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others” (1903), (also, see the excerpts that are available in this submodule).
Task:
First, read both documents carefully
Second, create a persona and perspective from which to write. Some suggestions are:
a black southern sharecropper.
a white Atlanta businessman.
a black, female domestic worker in Atlanta.
a black 17-year-old living in Harlem.
Write an editorial (300-400 words, or more than 1 page and less than 2) in support of DuBois OR Washington from your persona to one of the following newspapers
Chicago Defender – the leading black newspaper of the day.
Atlanta Journal – Atlanta daily newspaper; championed the “New South”; very conservative on race.
Atlanta Independent – black weekly newspaper published in Atlanta.
In your editorial, include
a brief introduction (2-3 sentences) of your character state at least two (2) reasons why you (as your character) support your chosen leader and at least one (1) reason you believe the other leader’s ideas are flawed.
Bring in at least one direct quote from each primary source.
In other words, you are comparing the two men, but ultimately supporting one over the other as having the best vision for black Americans, ca. 1903.
In this fun and short assignment, you are crafting a letter from the colonies. In that regard, look at life in Colonial New England or the Chesapeake.
Think about the motivations for change, the trials of life, and why we continue to seek a better life in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. Most importantly, earnestly consider the value of life v the dream and reality.
What does this statement mean? Even if life is hard, and someone dies shortly after finding the New World, does that mean they have created nothing from it? Has nothing (or possibly something greater) been left to his or her descendants?
Cite anything, not your own, especially paraphrased material (you should have mostly paraphrased material). Moreover, your word count is 250 to 500 words. Use description, be precise, and show a sense of creativity in this first analysis exploration.
Link/Material to help with letter:
Here’s the link to the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueNWlMyUNy4
Questions
1. According the Al Jazeera video on YouTube, how did U.S. foreign policy in the 1980s contribute to the rise of Central American migration into the United States? Explain in 4-6 sentences, drawing in some detail from the video.
Al Jazeera is a media network funded by the government of Qatar, although it has a reputation for objective, high-quality journalism.
2. According to Buckaloo, what was wrong with Carter’s policy toward Nicaragua? What were the consequences of Carter’s missteps? Explain in 4-6 sentences, drawing in some detail from the article.
3. What are the different kinds of “silences” in Abrego’s article? Why does Abrego want us to think carefully about these silences? Explain in 4-6 sentences, drawing in some detail from the article.
4. What is something that you found surprising or puzzling while reading these articles or watching the video? Explain in 4-6 sentences and provide details or short quotations from at least one of the sources. Remember to also paste Question 4 into our Canvas Discussion thread for SIP #7.
Research paper on the development of a Japanese–German partnership during World War II with a focus on the effectiveness of the Tripartite Pact:Discuss?
Chicago Style formatting and annotated bibliography
The impact of the Peloponnesian War on Ancient Greece
Analysis paper will analyze a specific topic in Greek history directly relevant to the time period and how the topic shaped the civilization. Support that analysis with the inclusion of primary sources from the time period that offer evidence about the past, as well as secondary sources about the event. Should contain your analysis of the topic using a variety of sources to provide appropriate perspective on the
Context of that topic as well as the objectivity of your analysis. Your paper will also include a works cited section with a mix of at least three primary and secondary sources.
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One of the main themes we have discussed in the past three weeks is the idea that censorship is not purely a repressive practice but that it also had productive—and even creative—elements to it.
Taking into account the many different practices, ideas, and values described in the texts we have read, how has the phenomenon of cultural regulation actually made culture more interesting? Looking back from our vantage point today, whether it is on the Old Regime in France or on the BBC in the 1920s, have attempts to control access to information and media ever succeeded in the long run?
Write an essay discussing these issues. Your paper should be between 900 and 1,100 words long. Include the word count in the text, as well as your name and the date. Use a standard font and double spacing.
You can decide which citation style to use. While you should engage with the texts you have read for this class, make sure to develop your own ideas on these issues. Try to think of examples we have not discussed in class. Maximize analysis and interpretation and minimize summary. If you have questions about any part of this assignment, contact me.
