Category: American history homework help

Primary source choice to complete this week’s launch of the upcoming assignment. Please include the link to your primary source choice. Make sure that the link works and the title and creator of the primary source appear in your submission.  Students are expected to choose from already assigned primary sources. Students may choose a primary source from the time periods covered so far in the class related to Women, Gender, & Rights in US History from research, subject to instructor approval. 

 
Week 5 Women, Gender, & Rights in the West Discussion 
Did the westward migration experience reinforce or destabilize traditional male/female roles? 
Please do the following in your post: 1. Be sure to include women of at least two ethnic or racial groups in your assessment. 2. Discuss specific examples with quotations and citations from the reading to support your ‘word choice.’ 
Remember that responses to classmates should create further historical dialogue, not repeat the existing historical discussion. Summaries of one’s own or a classmate’s first or second post and or compliments about a classmate’s post will not earn full credit 
Week 6 Discussion Abolition, Slavery, and Women’s Rights 
1. In the past few years, the term “woke” has come to mean an awareness of injustices, particularly those of race and gender. With this meaning in mind, is “woke” helpful in understanding women’s abolitionist actions and women’s rights beliefs and actions in the 19th century? What evidence do you see of dawning political awareness? (You may also think about these movements in terms of political consciousness or awakening instead of using “woke.”) Remember to base your response in historical example and evidence from the abolition and women’s rights movement.  Your ‘stand’ on whether woke applies should be based on the historical documents assigned this week. 
3. How would you explain women’s paths to political activism in the 19th century, given the social prescriptions for their gender that would seem to confine them to a ‘separate’ sphere defined by home and childrearing. How might African American women have responded to notions of a separate sphere? Remember to use evidence and examples from this week’s readings in your answer. 

 
Women and the American Revolution Discussion 
1. Discuss one continuity or difference you see in women’s lives in the Revolutionary Era versus the Colonial Era. Specify which women/group of women you are discussing.  
3. Choose a term or woman from this list below and explain her/its significance to the Colonial or Revolutionary era and its impact on women, weaving specific reference to relevant assigned reading into your response. 
Indentured Servitude- 
 
Women in the Early Republic Era
 1.  Discuss and identify one-way middle-class women expanded their role and influence beyond the home in the years 1800-1830s.
 6. What positive or negative implications do you see in the cultural ideal of women’s virtue/true womanhood? 

I need a discussion post about the Amercian Revolution. The post is a debate. ill be debating as a loyalist or a tory citizen. must login in to see the instructuons

I need a discussion post about the Amercian Revolution. The post is a debate. ill be debating as a loyalist or a tory citizen. must login in to see the instructuons

 Choose a current member of Congress and research their background. (nany pelosi or carlos gimenez – Prepare a  analysis of their background including their views, policy choices and opinions on current issues.What impact does the congressional member’s background (social, economic, educational, ethnic, gender, ideological, etc.) have on your opinion of them? Be specific. Provide concrete examples.
Is Congress a representative institution?
Do the backgrounds of members matter in the legislative process?
respond to the 2 responses on attachment

 
Many people feel that there is room for improvement in the area of campaign finance spending. What is the current status of campaign finance reform? Is reform a realistic expectation of the American political process? What is the role of soft money? Should there be limits on independent campaign spending by corporations and labor unions? Why? Why not? Be specific. Provide concrete examples.
Possible Site Trips

For detailed information about current campaign election laws and for the latest filings of campaign finance reports, go to http://www.fec.gov. This site has lots of good information.

To find excellent reports on where campaign money comes from and how it is spent, be sure to view the site maintained by the Center for Responsive politics.

Another excellent site for investigating voting records and campaign-finance information is that of Project VoteSmart.

Prompt A: Debate  between Douglas and Lincoln 1858
Prompt B:Union officials met with black ministers in savannah Georgia 
Select ONE of the prompts below and respond with at least 400 words (about 2 pages).
It should include at least two quotes from the relevant primary sources.
 
Prompt A: In his 1858 debates with Stephen Douglass, Abraham Lincoln assured audiences that while he was
opposed to the extension of slavery into the territories, he had “no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with
the institution of slavery in the States where it [already] exists.” Five years later, Lincoln had issued the
Emancipation Proclamation and had proclaimed at Gettysburg that the Civil War was being fought to bring about
a “new birth of freedom.” Why and how did Lincoln’s position shift in these five years? Your answer need not
be comprehensive. Instead, it should identify two or three major developments that pushed Lincoln towards
freeing the slaves in the Southern states and towards his new sense of the war’s purpose.
Prompt B: In 1865, Union officials met with twenty black ministers in Savannah, Georgia. When
asked how the freedmen might best secure their freedom and independence, the spokesman for the
ministers, Garrison Frazier, said the following:
“The way we can best take care of ourselves is to have land, and turn it and till it by our own labor…
and we can soon maintain ourselves and have something to spare.”
Did most of the freedmen in the South get the land that Frazier said was essential for freedom
and independence? Did sharecropping, the economic arrangement under which many landless
freedmen labored, provide independence and freedom? Were the sharecroppers truly free? In
your answer, make sure to use specific examples from the sharecropping contract to make your
case.

How the proponents and opponents of slavery used the analytical concepts that framed this course when making their arguments
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this has 3 parts must answer professor question with thesis and refrence from the Making of the West text book. Second you must ask a question with a full description of the question with references the you must response to 2 students.
Professor Question:What do the primary sources for chapter 14 reveal about Christianity, civilization and colonization, culture and conquest?
 You may use Columbus’s letter as well as the contrasting views of Luther in addition to the Sources primary sources. 
Student responses: Raffel:In what ways was Europe affected by the discovery of the Americas?
Portugal’s and Spain’s maritime explorations brought Europe to the attention of the rest of the world. The Portuguese and Spanish sailed across the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans. The English, French, and Dutch followed later in the sixteenth century, creating a new global exchange of people, crops, and diseases. As a result of these expeditions, the people of the Americas confronted forces that threatened to destroy not only their culture but even their existence. Write a couple of sentences about how Europe was affected by these changes.
Source: The Making of the West
Will post second student when done