Discuss the first settlers who came to Jamestown. What was their purpose in moving there? What were their first interactions with Powhatan/ the Powhatan Confederacy like? How did the colonists/ Natives make use of each other

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Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma

Using Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, you will need to write an essay of at least 750 words answering ALL of the following questions using specific evidence from the book to support your answers fully.1) Discuss Pocahontas’ childhood. How did she fit into Powhatan’s larger family structure? How was she perceived by the English as opposed to her own people? How is her personality described?2) Discuss the first settlers who came to Jamestown. What was their purpose in moving there? What were their first interactions with Powhatan/ the Powhatan Confederacy like? How did the colonists/ Natives make use of each other- what were each group trying to get from the other? Would you characterize their relations as more positive or negative during this early period? Why? 3) Discuss John Smith. Why was he so important to Jamestown? What was his relationship like with Powhatan? What was his relationship with Pocahontas like? Did he and Pocahontas seem to view their relationship in the same way?4) Discuss the relationship that Pocahontas had with John Rolfe. How does he (Rolfe) describe his feelings for her? Why does the author believe that Pocahontas wanted to be in the marriage even though we do not have her testimony? What motivations does Townsend think Pocahontas might have had when agreeing to marry Rolfe?5) Why does the author believe that Pocahontas decided to go to London? What was her experience like there? How does she show her own agency while there? Do you think that the trip was what she and the other Natives was expecting of England? What do you think it showed them about the English/ colonists?6) Discuss the relationship between Opechankeno and the colonists. What drove his anger towards them? How did this drive the decision towards the attack towards the colonists in 1622? Would you agree that this attack was ultimately beneficial towards the colonists? Why or why not?

Do you think we have too high an expectation for our presidents? Why do we expect our presidents to do so much? Do the journalists share the blame? Do the presidents themselves?

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Paraphrase from J. David Barber:

The president is the first political office children recognize. The president helps people make sense of politics. Congress is a tangle of committees; the bureaucracy is a maze of agencies. The president is one man trying to do a job – a picture much more understandable to the mass of people who find themselves in the same boat. Furthermore, he is the top man. He ought to know what is going on and set it right. So when the economy goes sour, or war drags on, or domestic violence erupts, the president is available to take the blame. Then when things go right, it seems the president must have had a hand in it. Indeed, the flow of political life is marked off by Presidents: the “Eisenhower Era,” the “Kennedy Years.”

We do seem to expect a lot from our presidents. Why is that? We elect them and give them a report card after their first 100 days in office. The expectation that they should be able to fix the economy or solve an international crisis in just a few days seems to be something dreamt up from a Hollywood screenplay. Do you think we have too high an expectation for our presidents? Why do we expect our presidents to do so much? Do the journalists share the blame? Do the presidents themselves? When they run for the office they make sweeping promises that fail to consider the constrictions of the office, but then every candidate for every office does that – even the local dog catcher. Where does Congress or the Courts fit into the public perception of the presidents’ power? Do different presidents’ have different powers? Furthermore, when we consider our expectations of the office, are we imagining a president living in an older era? If we factor in the new globally connected and socially connected world, must we re-evaluate our expectations as to whether presidents can accomplish their agendas? Is there anything that can be done to make a president more successful in achieving his promises?

Have we ever had a president who has successfully met the public’s expectations? Or does it take time out of office for the public’s opinion of the president’s performance to change? For example, people are re-evaluating the presidency of George H.W. Bush. The public and historians are concluding that the Bush I Administration was one of the better administrations in recent history.

Report on two separate myths which will include a summary that tells us the bare bones story of the myth a in depth description of the origin of the myth

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Folklore Mythology

Report on two separate myths which will include a summary that tells us the bare bones story of the myth a in depth description of the origin of the myth how we know this myth who are the people known to the myth and where it was found for example online in a book or movie and lastly a description of the natural context in which the myths was or is performed and what culture group originated from and dated 10 sources need 5 for each myth each one need to be 2 pages long

What are the book’s strengths and weaknesses? Support your statements with specific evidence from the text.

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Nature’s Metropolis

Write a scholarly review of Nature’s Metropolis. Be sure to evaluate Cronon’s argument(s), methodology, and use of primary sources. What are the book’s strengths and weaknesses (FYI: “The book is boring,” “the book is too long,” and/or “the book is difficult to read” are unacceptable weaknesses.)? Support your statements with specific evidence from the text.

Is this view of women and girls as prostitutes, drug addicts, and owners of opium dens how women are usually portrayed during this period?

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Reading Response 9

For this response, you will look at the seedier and more violent side of the Comstock.

Read the following 4 items (3 of the items are from chapter 4 of Uncovering Nevada’s Past ): “The Virginia Evening Chronicle reports on Opium on the Comstock”, the article about Julia Bulette at this link (Links to an external site.) “Julia Bulette’s Probate Records”, and “Mark Twain’s Description of the Execution of John Millian, 1868.”

In 250-500 words, discuss whether you think that drug use and violence were a result of the boomtown, wide-open frontier aspect of the Comstock, or just the normal problems of a 19th-century city. Is this view of women and girls as prostitutes, drug addicts, and owners of opium dens how women are usually portrayed during this period?

How was the Progressive Era a response to the problems of the Gilded Age? To what extent were the reforms successful?

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The Progressive Era

Write a three-paragraph essay answering the following question:

How was the Progressive Era a response to the problems of the Gilded Age Progressive Era? To what extent were the reforms successful?

  • Give at least 3 examples of Gilded Age problems and the Progressive Era reforms for those problems.
  • Write 1 paragraph about each Gilded Age problem and its Progressive Era Reform. Decide if the reform was successful in solving the problem. (3 paragraphs total).

Explain the legacies of the European Renaissance and Reformation movements and assess the impact of these legacies on the 21st century

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Legacies of the Renaissance and Reformation

In an essay of 1,000 words, 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?

Cite three to five relevant, scholarly sources in support of the content.

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?

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Credit Mobilier- Horatio Alger novels

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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How was breeding and selection of animals for particular traits and talents part of the evolving process of domestication? How did it add value to cattle? In what way was pure breeding and livestock speculation a function of the Market Revolution?

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Animal & Society

• How was breeding and selection of animals for particular traits and talents part of the evolving process of domestication? How did it add value to cattle? In what way was pure breeding and livestock speculation a function of the Market Revolution?

• How did humans imagine wolf behavior? By contrast (or, accordingly?) what were wolves probably doing in those many decades? Did their behavior change over time? Why were wolves unable to cope with human predation? How does Jon Coleman determine what historical wolf behavior may have been?

Write an essay that explains the origins of the American Revolution by discussing the specific complaints that different groups (seaside merchants, politicians, backcountry settlers, Indians, slaves, freedmen) of Americans had against the British government.

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Build up to American Revolution Essay

Essay instructions ! :
After more than a century and a half of English colonial settlement in North America, a coalition of British colonies along the east coast declared their independence from the British crown in the summer of 1776. In the seven years that followed, a bloody war raged, pitting British soldiers and loyal colonists against revolutionary colonists who identified themselves as American. The American Revolution took shape not immediately in the mid-1770s, but over the course of many years. The path to revolution was laid out clearly in 1763 with the end of the Seven Years War between Britain and France, in which many American colonists had fought for Britain. Over the next 13 years, a series of policy decisions by the British Parliament alienated and enraged various groups of colonists, who slowly crafted a distinct national identity. Consider the challenges anti-British colonists faced in cultivating a new national identity in the 1760s and 1770s. Since the early 1600s, English colonies in North America had been home to a wide variety of people, from different economic classes, ethnic and religious traditions, races, and regions. Think about ways that class, religious, and ethnic identity inhibited the formation of an anti-British coalition. Write an essay that explains the origins of the American Revolution by discussing the specific complaints that different groups (seaside merchants, politicians, backcountry settlers, Indians, slaves, freedmen) of Americans had against the British government. Your essay should explain the series of events between the early 1760s and 1776 that culminated in the drafting of the Declaration of Independence. How did so many different groups of Americans, who had long considered themselves to be loyal British subjects, reach a point where they desired to be a free and independent people? How did race (Africans, African Americans, Native Americans, newly arrived immigrants) cause different people to join opposing sides or remain neutral? This essay is not about the Revolution itself. Do not discuss events past the war’s beginning (1776 at latest), unless linked to answering this prompt.