American History

Discuss some of the challenges, both at home and abroad, that the revolutionary generation faced as they attempted to fashion an independent, viable republic.

In 4-6 pages (double-spaced, 12-point Times New Roman font), address the following: In Founding Brothers, Joseph Ellis argues that the prospects of the new nation surviving its “infancy” were “bleak in the extreme.” Discuss some of the challenges, both at home and abroad, that the revolutionary generation faced as they attempted to fashion an independent, […]

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Date: October 15th, 2022

Choose one of the 27 amendments to the united states constitution and, using relevant external sources, explain how that amendment promotes the goals the framers articulated in the preamble.

On September 17, 1787, delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed the Constitution, which begins with the following preamble: “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves […]

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Date: October 15th, 2022

Explain your position.

What impact did Europeans and Americans have on Asia during the era of imperialism? What part of this history intrigued or surprised you the most? Explain your position. What impact did Europeans have on Africa during the age of imperialism? What part of this history intrigued or surprised you the most? Explain your position. How […]

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Date: October 15th, 2022

How was the southern and midwestern rural economies reshaped by the great war and the consumerism of the 1920s?

Directions: To formulate your answer to the questions below you must use the resources provided for you in this course (lectures, primary sources, American Yawp). Failure to do so will affect your grade accordingly. Address one or more of the questions below. Question(s): How did disenfranchisement, segregation, and lynching alter the citizenship of African Americans […]

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Date: October 15th, 2022

What would the benefits of helping one side over the other be?

It is July 4th, 1776! For the past ten years you have watched the relationship between England and the American colonies deteriorate; and now the leadership of the colonies have declared independence from England. In a short paper, 500 or more words, imagine you are an American colonist from Massachusetts writing to a friend who […]

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Date: October 15th, 2022

Identify (who, what, when, where & broader significance) any four terms

US History Midterm Identify (who, what, when, where & broader significance) any four terms 1. King Philip’s War 2.The Columbian Exchange 3. Jamestown 4. Plymouth 5. Salem Witch Trials 6. English Civil War 7. Indentured Servant 8. The Atlantic Slave Trade Journal of Christopher Columbus, 1492 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/starving-settlers-in-jamestown-colony-resorted-to-cannibalism-46000815/?no-ist https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/diorama-series/landscape-history-central-new-england

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Date: October 15th, 2022