Category: History

Explain the socio-economic status and challenges of your minority groups at the turn of the century.How did the Industrial Revolution affect your chosen minority groups?

 Industrialization, Imperialism, and America’s Entry Into WWI

For the initial post, pick two (2) of the following categories representing minority groups during 1880-1914:

Women’s rights activists
African Americans
Immigrants from southern and eastern Europe
Child workers
Great Plain Indians
Then, address the following for your selections:

Explain the socio-economic status and challenges of your minority groups at the turn of the century.

How did the Industrial Revolution affect your chosen minority groups?

Analyze how the Progressives brought reform to your selected minority groups. Do you find that the Progressives were successful in making government responsive and improve the conditions of your chosen minority group?

Analyze if the South should have been treated as a defeated nation or as rebellious states.Analyze the impact of the Compromise of 1877 that ended Reconstruction on African-Americans.

Week 4 Discussion 2: 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.

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.

Week 4 Discussion 1: Stepping Stones to the Civil War

For the initial post, pick three (3) of the leading causes of the American Civil War:

The Compromise of 1850
The Fugitive Slave Law 1850
Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1852
The Kansas Nebraska Act 1854
The Dred Scott Case of 1857
The Lincoln Douglas Debates 1858
Then, address one (1) of the following for your selections:

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.

Women did not earn the right to vote in the U.S. less than one century ago. Why did U.S. lawmakers initially only allow white landowning American men to vote?

Unit 5 Discussion:
QUESTIONS:

Women did not earn the right to vote in the U.S. less than one century ago. Why did U.S. lawmakers initially only allow white landowning American men to vote?

Why did American men (and some women) oppose allowing women to exercise their right to vote in local, state, and federal elections?

Watch the dramatic reenactment of the force feeding of Alice Paul in the feature film, Iron Jawed Angels. Why do you think the force feeding of Paul, and the treatment of the imprisoned suffragists in general, generated support for the suffragists? Support your opinion with observations from the film.

How and in what ways did the role of religion, faith, and belief change from ancient societies to medieval societies in the west? In your response, explore at least three specific cases from the earliest human societies to the beginning of the early modern period in Europe to illustrate your ideas.

Prompt:

How and in what ways did the role of religion, faith, and belief change from ancient societies to medieval societies in the west? In your response, explore at least three specific cases from the earliest human societies to the beginning of the early modern period in Europe to illustrate your ideas.

How and why did social divisions change significantly from the ancient western world to the feudal period to the early modern era? In particular, how did elements of identity like status, gender, and citizenship change across these periods?

Prompt:

How and why did social divisions change significantly from the ancient western world to the feudal period to the early modern era? In particular, how did elements of identity like status, gender, and citizenship change across these periods? Explain your answer with specific examples.
Essays should be at least five full paragraphs.

What did you learn about the relationship between early democracy and violence in early American republic? When did different groups of Americans think violence was justified and why?

What did you learn about the relationship between early democracy and violence in early American republic? When did different groups of Americans think violence was justified and why?

Provide specific evidence from the readings for your answers;
Cite your evidence using Chicago Style
Have all the elements of the reading-writing guide (thesis, organization, evidence, analysis);
Have your name, a title, and page numbers;
Be double spaced, with standard margins and font (such as Times New Roman 12)

The soil will be soaked source only use pages 59-86
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https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.ezproxy.library.wwu.edu/lib/wwu/reader.action?docID=5703778
( this website takes you to the book, only use ch 3-5 and epilogue)
-https://oxforduniversitypressscholarshipcom.ezproxy.library.wwu.edu/view/10.1093/oso/9780190868161.001.0001/oso-9780190868161-chapter-4
(just use ch 3 called rumors)
-https://jeffersondavis.rice.edu/archives/documents/jefferson-davis-farewell-address
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https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/lincoln1.asp
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Alexander Stephens on Slavery and the Confederate Constitution, 1861


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https://www.npr.org/2022/01/31/1076873172/one-in-four-americans-say-violence-against-the-government-is-sometimes-okay
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Is the US headed for another Civil War?


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