Category: American history homework help

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Comparing and Contextualizing Totalitarianism, Analyzing the context of Totalitarianism
Read Primary Sources 19.1, 19.2 and 19.3 and answer the following:
How does Arendt’s view of totalitarianism apply to the three subsequent documents? To which document does the term totalitarian seem most appropriate? To which does it apply least well?
What role do ordinary people play in supporting or resisting the regime in the final three documents?
Identify the nature and limits of state power in the final three documents. 
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Mark Twain referred to the late 1800s as the Gilded Age. What did Twain mean by this, and do you think this is an accurate label for the period?  Why or why not?

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Watch this video on the Boxer Rebellion Links to an external site.(https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=Y-18lUI8ZBnuxhxe&v=JSe8FmYlYdk&feature=youtu.be)Review this website https://omniatlas.com/maps/asia-pacific/19000616/Links to an external site.
These will help you gain insight to the topic. 
Create a two-column chart that explains the events of the Boxer Rebellion through the perspectives described in the featured sources.
Sources:
Excerpt from Fei Ch’i-hao’s account of the Boxer RebellionLinks to an external site. ( Internet History Sourcebooks: Modern History (fordham.edu) )
Excerpt from Luella Minor’s account of the Boxer RebellionLinks to an external site. ( Internet History Sourcebooks: Modern History (fordham.edu) )
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Read Primary Source 18.1 and answer the following questions:
Why did the other women at the meeting ask Gage not to allow Sojourner Truth to speak? What were they afraid of?
What does Truth mean when she says, “Ain’t I a woman?”
What role does religion play in this document?

How You will submit a short book analysis for each of these two books;  should have 2 parts? How has this book analysis impacted you?

“The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) and the Native corporation system have been good for Alaska Natives”. 
The reason that I say this is because what I have been reading is that the Alaska Natives have said themselves that it was a good system for them for a long time. “it’s fair to say that, after a rocky start, many of the regional corporations have done fairly well. In 2004, seven of the top ten Alaska-owned businesses were Native regional corporations, which distributed $117.5 million in shareholder dividends, employed 3,116 Native shareholders, and paid $5.4 million in scholarships for Native students (Linxwiler, 2007)”.  With this being said they had a hard time in the beginning but once they got started they were able to start rolling.
“But is economic performance all that really matters? While ANCSA was designed only to provide Alaska Natives with opportunities for economic development, many Natives saw the corporation system as a substitute for—or a rival to—the traditional structures of tribal government. Among Alaska Natives, tribes are generally associated with individual villages (“Alaska Native Villages,” 2016)”. This was for the Alaska Natives and then they branched out and made it to non-natives have it as well.    
Linxwiler, J. (2007). The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act at 35: Delivering on the promise. https://lbblawyers.com/ancsa/ancsa-at-35-delivering-on-the-promise-proof-10-25-07
Alaska Native villages. (2016). American Indian Resource Directory. https://web.archive.org/web/20051125001107/http://www.indians.org/Resource/FedTribes99/Region1/region1.html
In response to your peers, reflect on their revised statement. Describe the ways you find it shows the complexity of the event, and provide a suggestion for how they can further develop the statement or the supporting examples.

 a work of art from the American museum of natural history and discuss and critique in a formal, iconographic, and historical context.

What to Submit
Your historical analysis should adhere to the following formatting requirements: 4–6 pages, double-spaced, using 12-point Times New Roman font and one-inch margins. You should use current APA-style guidelines (or another format approved by your instructor) for your citations and reference list.

“In preparing for the Cherokee removal, state and federal officials were motivated solely by desire to seize the natives’ land.” This statement does not present the full picture of the event as there were underlying reasons as to why the officials wanted to seize the Cherokee tribal lands. My revision to the statement to present a more complex explanation would be the following:
“The motivation for the removal of the Cherokee from their land stemmed from state and federal officials wanting to exploit the land and expand the national frontier.”
The revision creates a complexity to the reasoning behind the Cherokee removal besides just the desire for land. It helps open explanation on what they would do with the seized lands beyond just wanting more land. Part of the complexity is the purpose that what drives them to seize land, the planned purpose of the newly acquired land, such as farmland or urbanization.
Considering how this sort of approach could be useful to approaching the historical complexity to my topic of the Space Race, instead of focusing only on the point of view from the United States citizen, it would help to show the view from a citizen from the Soviet Union. Portray the feelings of seeing your homeland’s adversary achieving the goals first that your country was hoping to reach first. A big example would be how the citizens of the Soviet Union felt when they seen the footage of the United States astronauts walking on the moon and planting the flag of the United States of America into the ground of the celestial body.
In response to your peers, share any preconceived notions you may have about their topic. Lastly, consider how further exploration of the viewpoints around their topic would potentially change the lens through which they currently view the event.

In order for the statement to present the full picture it could read as :In preparing for the removal of the native Cherokee’s, the local and federal governments gave them no option, they wanted their land and resources on their land. The Cherokee people were fighting an uphill battle with no end to which they were able to keep their homeland. The government viewed them as less than individuals.  
In my topic of the Women’s suffrage movement, I could speak more on the response of men from the women’s suffrage movement or even the modern day feminist. 
response to your peers, share any preconceived notions you may have about their topic. Lastly, consider how further exploration of the viewpoints around their topic would potentially change the lens through which they currently view the event.

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To answer this question you will need to read Primary Source 17.1 and analyze American ProgressLinks to an external site. c( American progress – digital file from original print, recto | Library of Congress (loc.gov) )
Explain all the reasons why Americans started to move westward. 
What symbols do you notice in the painting?
What do you think they represent?
How does this picture represent Manifest Destiny?
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Examine how Europe established its dominant position and explore examples of European “exports” – revolution, industrialization and nationalism – that influenced non-European countries throughout the world.