How have the last sixty years of United States history shaped the present-day United States?

 The past is never dead

Essay: “The past is never dead,” Willian Faulkner wrote. “It’s not even past.” In an argumentative essay, answer the following prompt: How have the last sixty years of United States history shaped the present-day United States?

Why did Abraham Lincoln issue it? Why did he issue it when he did? What did the Emancipation Proclamation do and what did it not do? How did the Emancipation Proclamation change the nature of the Civil War?

Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation

Discuss Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. In your answer, consider the following questions. Why did Abraham Lincoln issue it? Why did he issue it when he did? What did the Emancipation Proclamation do and what did it not do? How did the Emancipation Proclamation change the nature of the Civil War?

Between 1820, the time of the Missouri Compromise, and 1860, was slavery in the United States becoming weaker or stronger?

Slavery in the United States

Between 1820, the time of the Missouri Compromise, and 1860, was slavery in the United States becoming weaker or stronger? Answer the question by considering economic developments, congressional action, as well as Supreme Court decisions. Be sure to provide specific evidence for your argument.

Evaluate the support women gave to the Revolutionary efforts. You must include at least 3 examples from the book to support your evaluation.

Revolutionary efforts

For your book activity, you will have a choice between two different questions. Each question will require you to provide examples from the novel using correct citations in Chicago formatting. You may use other sources in addition to the book, but you MUST use the book to answer your question.

Your work must be a minimum of 500 words in Chicago style and formatting, including a Chicago Manual of Style title page. Keep in mind, 500 words is a minimum, but this may not be enough for you to truly answer the question. Anything below the minimum will result in a zero for the assignment.

Use the Chicago Manual of Style for style and citation. Use “Notes and Bibliography” style citations, with footnotes, not endnotes.

Evaluate the support women gave to the Revolutionary efforts. You must include at least 3 examples from the book to support your evaluation.

What powers did and didn’t the Continental Congress give themselves during a time of war against the world’s greatest empire at the time?

How did the Articles of Confederation reveal the actual causes of the Revolution?

Some historians argue taxation without representation started the war, others the violation of rights attempting to enforce these taxes caused the war, and still others argue that the Founders used rhetoric about rights to manipulate common people into a war for the Founders financial and political benefit. When one examines, the Articles of Confederation, however, the causes of the war reveal themselves clearly. What powers did and didn’t the Continental Congress give themselves during a time of war against the world’s greatest empire at the time? For example, they didn’t give themselves the power to tax (even while fighting a war) or the power to draft people into the military. They did, however, give themselves the power to create a post office, to spread the news and to inform people.

Describe the market revolution and the role played by the railroads and the telegraph. Explain the effects of inventions such as the cotton gin and the steam engine had on the American economy and everyday commercial life in the United States.

Test

Each question must be answered. Each answer should be 1200 words or more.

Question 1. Describe the market revolution and the role played by the railroads and the telegraph. Explain the effects of inventions such as the cotton gin and the steam engine had on the American economy and everyday commercial life in the United States.

Question 2. Describe the reform movements especially temperance and abolition. What did they have in common and discuss their impact on American society.

How have the rights of farmworkers evolved between the Okie migrants of the the dust bowl, braceros, the sixties to the late seventies, and today’s farm worker movement?

Okie conditions and treatment with modern conditions

How have the rights of farmworkers evolved between the Okie migrants of the the dust bowl, braceros, the sixties to the late seventies, and today’s farm worker movement?

Explain how each of your choices was an effective policy to thwart international communist expansion. Based on your selections, analyze if the United States should have feared international communist subversion during the Cold War era (1945-1991).

American Foreign policies

Pick three (3) of the following American Foreign policies:

  • Marshall Plan
  • Berlin Airlift
  • Containment
  • Anti-Communist Freedom Fighters
  • Vietnam (conflict) War
  • Détente’
  • SALT I & SALT II
  • Camp David Accords
  • Strategic Defense Initiative (nicknamed “Star Wars”)

Then, address the following for your selections:

  • Explain how each of your choices was an effective policy to thwart international communist expansion.
  • Based on your selections, analyze if the United States should have feared international communist subversion during the Cold War era (1945-1991).

 

Writing Requirements 

  • 2 references required, 1 reference MUST INCLUDE THE TEXTBOOK WITH IN TEXT CITATIONS
  • APA format for in-text citations and list of references
  • Textbook Link: https://openstax.org/details/books/us-history
  • Textbook Chapters: Textbook: Sections 2, 29.1, 30.3, 31.3

Consider the different circumstances of their marginalized conditions.

In the first half of the 19th Century, a number of groups within the United States struggled to assert their rights. In the case of both Native Americans and African Americans, the obstacles to full inclusion in the U.S. polity, economy, and society gave a special importance to the articulation of a unique identity distinct from the dominant white culture. However, it also meant that these groups would need to assert their identity as American in order to claim equal rights. Attempts to improve or escape the condition of bondage/exclusion were complicated by the fact that they encountered a these two groups were denied rights and freedom yet sought as much control as possible in any relevant primary sources from Sources, Vicki Rozema’s Voices from the Trail of Tears and Frederick Douglas’ Narrative of the Life of an American Slave. Remember to consider the different circumstances of their marginalized conditions.

The sources are below

  • https://www.gutenberg.org/files/23/23-h/23-h.htm#link2HCH0001
  • https://oglethorpe.instructure.com/files/259883/download?download_frd=1
  • http://www.virtualjamestown.org/servlaws.html
  • http://nativeamericanprophecy.com/prophecy-shawnee-tecumseh-tenskwatawa.htm
  • https://oglethorpe.instructure.com/files/295283/download?download_frd=1

Assess if the United States foreign policy during the 1930s helped to promote World War II. Could the United States have prevented the outbreak of World War II? If so, how? If not, why not?

Week 6 Discussion 2 : World War II

Initial Post Instructions
For the initial post, consider three (3) of the following events:

  • Treaty of Versailles
  • Rise of fascism, militarism and imperialism
  • Failure of the League of Nations
  • Hitler and the Nazi Party
  • The Lend Lease Act
  • Japanese expansion and the bombing of Pearl Harbor

Based on your three selections, choose two (2) of the following and craft a response for your selections:

  1. Assess if the United States foreign policy during the 1930s helped to promote World War II.
    • Could the United States have prevented the outbreak of World War II? If so, how? If not, why not?
  1. Explain if the United States, despite neutrality, aided the Allies against the Axis powers.
  2. Analyze if the use of atomic (nuclear) weapons to defeat enemies in war is a setback for democracy (President Truman’s decision to drop the atom bomb on Japan).

 

Required Resources
Read/review the following resources for this activity:

  • Textbook: Chapter 27
  • Minimum of 2 scholarly sources (in addition to the textbook as one source with in text citation from textbook)

Link to textbook: https://openstax.org/details/books/us-history