Tag: American history homework help

1. Watch the lecture in its entirety.
2. Determine what the main argument is.  In other words, all academic lectures have a key point (unless you have a terrible professor and they ramble on without a clear direction or purpose) that is being supported by evidence, which is what we call the argument.  Figure out what that argument is.
3. In your discussion post, explain the argument by analyzing the evidence. As you are explaining the argument, you should discuss how that argument is significant for world history.  In other words, tell me why this topic is important for world history.
4. Next, make a connection between the topic and any political, social, or cultural issue that we face today in the world.  You should explain how and in what ways the past informs or have shaped the present.
5. Your discussion post should reflect on how you interpret the past and connect it to present events.

1. Watch the lecture in its entirety.
2. Determine what the main argument is.  In other words, all academic lectures have a key point (unless you have a terrible professor and they ramble on without a clear direction or purpose) that is being supported by evidence, which is what we call the argument.  Figure out what that argument is.
3. In your discussion post, explain the argument by analyzing the evidence. As you are explaining the argument, you should discuss how that argument is significant for world history.  In other words, tell me why this topic is important for world history.
4. Next, make a connection between the topic and any political, social, or cultural issue that we face today in the world.  You should explain how and in what ways the past informs or have shaped the present.
5. Your discussion post should reflect on how you interpret the past and connect it to present events.

Examine one state’s declaration from The Declarations of Causes of Seceding States on the American Battlefield Trust website and scan the various excerpts from the National Park Service’s Why Confederate Soldiers Fought document. In your first post, explain to what degree you think the aims of the average soldier and the aims of the state secession conventions were the same or different.

Analyze the early Cold War years and explain the emergence of the two major superpowers, the United
 
States and Soviet Union. What was the Truman Doctrine? Analyze the Cold War in Europe. How was
 
Germany and the rest of Europe divided? What was the Berlin Airlift? Analyze the proxy wars between
 
Communist and anti-Communist forces in Latin America. What was the Cuban Missiles Crisis, and how
 
was it resolved? Explain the Cold War in Asia. How did the U.S policymakers respond to the Communists?
 
victory in China? How did the United States become involved in the Korean War, and what was the
 
consequences?

Read the following essay on the famous “Oregon Trail”:
https://www.history.com/news/9-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-oregon-trail
This visit this site, and read some of the documents left by individuals who traveled west along the “Oregon Trail” in the 19th century:
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/expref/oregtral/
Then post a response of at least 300 of your own words to this material on the forum. What was the “Oregon Trail”? What particularly struck you about the experiences of the settlers who traveled on it? Refer to at least two of the specific settlers whose letters or diaries you read, and compare and contrast their experiences. In what ways were they similar, or different? Be specific in your analysis.
After posting, read some of your classmates’ posts and respond to at least two of them. Make sure that these response posts discuss the substance of your classmates’ posts and advance the discussion.

Read the “Speech of Henry Benning to the Virginia Convention” online at the following site, AND one of the other speeches (your choice which) by a “secession commissioner” sent by the first states to secede to the other Southern states to help persuade them to join the Confederacy as well:
http://civilwarcauses.org/commish.htm
After reading the speeches, post a response to it of at least 300 of your own words on the forum. Why, according to Benning and the other “secession commissioners,” did the election of Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860 make the secession of the Southern states necessary? Then respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts.

Visit the following site and read the transcript of, or listen to, the podcast “A More Perfect Union?: the Reconstruction Era”:
https://www.backstoryradio.org/shows/a-more-perfect-union
Then make a post of at least 300 of your own words on the forum, summarizing the main points of this podcast, as well as offering your own reflections and analysis. What was Reconstruction? What was it intended to accomplish, and what did it actually accomplish? Do you consider Reconstruction a success? Why or why not?
After posting, read some of your classmates’ posts and respond to at least two of them.