The 1970s and 1980s brought remarkable changes for the Untied States. The Cold War between the US and its allies versus the Soviet Union and its allies/clients was still the dominant international issue. China was also going to start emerging as a major world power. Nixon was dealing with Vietnam and then Watergate—one of the pivotal scandals of modern history. Reagan would bring a new […]

Please write a summary of this week’s reading assignments. Write a minimum of 450 words. Proofread all of your work. Make sure your summary includes details from all of the reading. The goal of the assignment is not to summarize lectures or class discussions. The highest grade will be awarded only for exceptional work and for students who add an informed analysis of the text. […]

What do the primary sources in Chapter 16 reveal about the conflict between capital and labor during the Gilded Age? Identify three reasons for industrial workers and farmers’ discontent or frustration. Use the editorial cartoon “The Tournament of Today” (1883) and at least two of the three documents listed below.   Media: “The Tournament of Today — A Set-To Between Labor and Monopoloy” (1883)  Documents: Andrew […]

Reconstruction Paper: Use the research database  “American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals: 1866-1877”  located through the Ellis Library (in Research Databases section) web site. Find a minimum of six newspaper articles from the 1866-1877 period that demonstrate how some things changed for former slaves in the first twelve years after the Civil War and some things did not. Find a minimum of three that demonstrate positive change […]

ONLY USE THE WEBTEXT AND COURSE MATERIALS FOR THIS DISCUSSION–NO OUTSIDE SOURCES!  NO OPINIONS!   Go to Section 3 of this week’s Webtext titled, “Lives of Slaves” and review the info  shown in the section. Next, briefly summarize the day-to-day activities of a typical slave’s daily life. Using resources from this section and the supplemental resource featured this week, determine three (3) differences in experiences […]

Objectives: By the end of this session, students will be able to: · Explain the ways in which the French and Indian War (Seven Years’ War) affected the relationship between Britain and her American colonies. · Explain why British efforts to consolidate its empire after 1763 aroused so much opposition in the colonies. · Describe the evolution of political thought and tactics among Americans who […]

By the early 1950s, the US was a world super-power militarily and economically. The Great Depression was no more. But, two major rival powers were developing, rivals ideologically and militarily: The Cold War between the US and its allies versus the Soviet Union and its allies/clients would be the dominant international issue for the next four decades. Domestically, in the 1950s and the 1960s, the […]

USE TEMPLATE TO DO PAPER!!! Assignment 2.1: Liberty Challenged in Nineteenth Century America Thesis and Outline Due Week 7 and worth 50 points   America became a free independent nation. With the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1783, the former mother country, England, recognized that its children, the colonies, were now on their own. A constitutional republic was birthed, and thus the challenges […]