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HIST405 United States History

Week 1 Assignment

Case Study

Required
Resources

Read/review
the following resources for this activity:

Textbook:
Chapter 1, 2, 3, 4

Lesson

Minimum of
1 scholarly source (in addition to the textbook)

Optional
Resources to Explore

Feel free
to review the library guide for scholarly sources and videos at the following
link:

Link
(website): History Library Guide (Links to an external site.)

Introduction

The
purposes of each case study assignment include the following:

To hone
your abilities to research using scholarly sources

To advance
critical thinking and writing skills

To compile
a response to the prompts provided

To explore
a historical topic and make connections to change over time

Instructions

Pick one
(1) of the following topics. Then, address the corresponding questions/prompts
for your selected topic:

Option 1:
Exploration and Effects on Native Americans

Explain
what motivated the European world powers to explore the Americas.

Describe
the economic effects of exploration based on the Colombian exchange.

Analyze the
effects of exploration on Native Americans.

Based on
research, analyze if Europeans might be held accountable for transmitting Old
World diseases to people in the Western Hemisphere.

Option 2: Slavery
vs. Indentured Servitude

Explain how
and why slavery developed in the American colonies.

Describe in
what ways the practice of slavery was different between each colonial region in
British North America.

Analyze the
differences between slaves and indentured servants.

Option 3:
Women in Colonial America

Pick two
colonies (New England, Middle, or Southern colonies) and explain how women’s
roles differ in the two colonies of your choice.

Describe
what legal rights women held during the colonial period.

Analyze how
Native women’s lives were different from colonial women’s lives.

Make sure
to use your course text and incorporate an additional scholarly source from the
Chamberlain Library in your response.

HIST405 United States History

Week 3 Assignment

Case Study

Required
Resources

Read/review
the following resources for this activity:

Textbook:
Chapter 9, 10 (section 10.4), 11 (section 11.5), 13

Lesson

1 primary
source that corresponds with your selected topic (noted in the topic
instructions)

Minimum of
2 scholarly sources (in addition to the textbook)

Optional
Resources to Explore

Feel free
to review the library guide for scholarly sources and videos at the following
link:

Link
(website): History Library Guide (Links to an external site.)

Introduction

The
purposes of each case study assignment include the following:

To hone
your abilities to research using scholarly sources

To advance
critical thinking and writing skills

To compile
a response to the prompts provided

To explore
a historical topic and make connections to change over time

Instructions

Pick one
(1) of the following topics. Then, address the corresponding questions/prompts
for your selected topic. Use at least one (1) documented example of the
corresponding primary source in your writing.

Option 1:
The American System, Transportation, and Communication

Read the
following primary source:

Link
(website): Of Debates in Congress (Clay’s Debate of the American System in
1832) (Links to an external site.) (Click on “Next Image” to see all
pages of the debate: pp.258-262.)

Then,
address the following:

Describe
the idea of Henry Clay’s “American System.”

Based on
Clay’s economic vision of America, analyze how the American System would build
the American market and economy?

Analyze the
role of mechanization and communication in the American System.

Option 2:
The Indian Removal Act of 1830

Read the
following primary source:

Link
(website): Transcript of President Andrew Jackson’s Message to Congress ‘On
Indian Removal’ (1830) (Links to an external site.)

Then,
address the following:

Evaluate
the rationale that President Jackson used in the removal of the Native
Americans from east of the Mississippi River. Did the removal have the intended
impact?

Identify
the responsibilities given to the President under the Indian Removal Act of
1830.

Compare
Jackson’s actions toward Native Americans in the context of his First Inaugural
Address with the path of events during the Trail of Tears.

Determine
if the removal of the Native Americans from east of the Mississippi River
violate the principles found in the Declaration of Independence?

Option 3:
The Abolitionist Movement

Read the
following primary source:

Link
(website): Declaration of Sentiments of American Anti-Slavery Society (1833)
(Links to an external site.) (Click on arrows to view all images of the
document. Click on plus and minus signs to enlarge or reduce size of images.)

Then,
address the following:

Assess if
abolitionists were responsible reformers or irresponsible agitators?

Explain how
abolitionists upheld the Declaration of Independence as the foundation of
antislavery and abolitionist thought.

Assess the
effect of the Gag Rule on the Abolitionist Movement.

Analyze how
the women’s rights movement would gain momentum from the antislavery movement.

HIST405 United States History

Week 5 Assignment

Case Study

Required
Resources

Read/review
the following resources for this activity:

Textbook:
Chapter 18, 21, 22

Lesson

1 primary
source that corresponds with your selected topic (noted in the topic
instructions)

Minimum of
3 scholarly sources (in addition to the textbook)

Optional
Resources to Explore

Feel free
to review the library guide for scholarly sources and videos at the following
link:

Link
(website): History Library Guide (Links to an external site.)

Introduction

The
purposes of each case study assignment include the following:

To hone your
abilities to research using scholarly sources

To advance
critical thinking and writing skills

To compile
a response to the prompts provided

To explore
a historical topic and make connections to change over time

Instructions

Pick one
(1) of the following topics. Then, address the corresponding questions/prompts
for your selected topic. Use at least one (1) documented example of the
corresponding primary source in your writing.

Option 1:
Big Business (Monopolies) and Exploitation of Workers

View the
following resource:

Link
(video): The Progressive Era (Links to an external site.) (27:30)

Browse and
read one (1) of the following:

Link
(library article): The Triangle Disaster: How a Fire a Century ago at a New
York Clothing Factory Changed U.S. Labor Laws (Links to an external site.)

Link
(library article): The Pullman Strike (Links to an external site.)

Then,
address the following:

Explain if
big business leaders were “captains of industry,” “shrewd
businessmen,” or “robber barons.”

Based on
one of the resources noted for this option, assess American working conditions
and exploitation of workers in the Age of Industry.

Analyze the
role that government played in reforming American working conditions.

Explain the
benefits of the Federal Government regulations of monopolies.

Analyze
which progressive presidents attained economic justice and reform for workers.

Option 2:
Who is A Progressive?

Review the
following site:

Link
(website): Presidential Election of 1912: A Resource Guide (Links to an
external site.)

Then,
address the following:

According
to Roosevelt, what are the characteristics of a progressive?

Explain and
give examples of the characteristics of “anti-progressives.”

Trace what
types of activities “anti-progressives” engaged in?

Analyze the
goals of progressivism.

Explain
what areas of society progressives addressed?

Analyze the
progressive achievements Roosevelt highlights in his speech?

Option 3:
World War I

Review the
following resources:

Link
(video): A War to End All Wars: Part 2 (Links to an external site.) (6:56)

Link
(library article): The Treaty of Versailles and the Rise of Nazism (Links to an
external site.)

Then,
address the following:

Trace the
origins of World War I, and assess if the world war was inevitable in 1914?

Explain if
it was possible for the United States to maintain neutrality in World War I. If
yes, explain how. If no, explain why not.

Analyze if
the United States should have entered World War I to make the world safe for
democracy.

Analyze if
the Treaty of Versailles was a fair and effective settlement for lasting world
peace.

Explain if
the United States Senate should have approved of the Treaty of Versailles.

HIST405 United States History

Week 7 Assignment

Case Study

Required
Resources

Read/review
the following resources for this activity:

Textbook:
Chapter 28, 29, 30

Lesson

Minimum of
1 primary source

Minimum of
4 scholarly sources (in addition to the textbook)

Optional
Resources to Explore

Feel free
to review the library guide for scholarly sources and videos at the following
link:

Link
(website): History Library Guide (Links to an external site.)

Introduction

The
purposes of each case study assignment include the following:

To hone
your abilities to research using scholarly sources

To advance
critical thinking and writing skills

To compile
a response to the prompts provided

To explore
a historical topic and make connections to change over time

Instructions

Pick one
(1) of the following topics. Then, address the corresponding questions/prompts
for your selected topic. Use at least one (1) documented example of the
corresponding primary source in your writing.

Option 1:
McCarthyism and Anti-Communist Campaigns

The Cold
War brought about an irrational fear of communism and communist activities in
the United States. As we are learning this week, one of the most vocal
instigators of this paranoia was Senator Joseph McCarthy. McCarthy delivered a
speech about the imminent threat of communism on February 9, 1950. Perform a
search on the internet and locate and read Joseph McCarthy’s speech given in
Wheeling, West Virginia on February 9, 1950. Copy and paste the following
keywords into your Google search bar: “Joseph McCarthy, Wheeling, West
Virginia.” The speech is also referred to as “Enemies from Within.”

Construct
the case study by responding to the following prompts:

Explain how
Senator Joseph McCarthy defined communist nations within the speech. What
specific threats did these nations pose?

Assess if
Senator Joseph McCarthy charges were accurate.

Analyze
anti-communist sentiments during the Cold War era, were these sentiments valid.
If so, how? If not, why not?

Explain if
there are other examples of events similar to the Red Scare that have occurred
throughout history and modern day.

Examine
what happened to people who invoked the Fifth Amendment, refused to appear or
were found in violation of the law as defined by the Congressional Committee.

Option 2:
The Civil Rights Movement

Using the
Internet, locate and read Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have a Dream”
speech given in Washington D.C., August 1963. Copy and paste the following
keywords into your Google search bar: “I Have a Dream by Martin Luther
King, Jr.” Feel free also to locate and incorporate additional scholarly
sources to respond to this case study, including information on the Civil
Rights Movement.

Construct
the case study by responding to the following prompts:

Explain if
the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s effectively changed the nation.

What effect
would the Civil Rights Acts have across the continent on minority groups?

Do you
think that the tactics and strategies that civil rights activists used in the
1960s would apply to today’s racial and ethnic conflicts? Why or why not?

Do the
ideas of the 1960s still have relevance today? If so how? If not, why not?

Analyze how
the Civil Rights Movement would impact diversity in America today.

Option 3:
American Domestic and Foreign Policies (1953-1991)

Complete a
search either in the Chamberlain Library or internet for domestic and foreign
polices of four (4) of the following Presidents. Please incorporate at least
one primary source of either a policy or act that you have chosen to write
about.

Eisenhower

Kennedy

Johnson

Nixon

Ford

Carter

Reagan

Then,
compare domestic and foreign polices of your four (4) presidents by answering
the following prompts:

Explain how
your selected presidents worked to improve the United States economically and
socially. Give at least one example of each president.

Assess if
the policies of your choice of presidents strengthen or weaken the United
States.

Explain how
you see your choice of presidents served the public interest and further the
cause of democracy.

Determine
if it is constitutional for the United States to fight preemptive wars.

Determine
if human rights and morality should be the cornerstones of United State foreign
policy.

HIST405 United States History

Week 1 Journal Entry

Required
Resources

Read/review
the following resources for this activity:

Textbook:
Read the chapter titles of the course text. Click on the Contents button in the
text to reveal the titles in the navigation.

Lesson

Introduction

History is
the choice made by humanity through time. These choices have fostered the world
that we live in today. In a similar sense, learning does not just “just
happen” to you. You must be actively engaged in the learning process by
making choices to devise strategies to maximize your potentials, reflect on the
strategies that worked and those that didn’t, and modify these strategies
moving forward. I want all of you to earn an A in this class!

Instructions

For this
journal entry, envision yourself having received an A at the end of the class.
Imagine yourself looking back over the class and describe the strategies you
used to earn that A. Here are some items for you to consider in your response:

How often
did you log in to class?

What time
management techniques did you use?

How did you
manage the reading?

What was
your plan for completing the case studies?

How do you
think history connects to your profession and/or your life in general?

Complete
this assignment in a Word document.

Writing
Requirements (APA format)

Length:
75-200 words (not including title page)

HIST405 United States History

Week 8 Journal Entry

Required
Resources

Read/review
the following resources for this activity:

Textbook:
Review chapters as needed

Review
lessons as needed

Instructions

For this
activity, reflect on the course content and address the following:

Identify
and elaborate on one or two lessons you have learned from our study of United
States history that affect you today in your daily life and/or work.

Provide
advice to the next group of students who will be taking this course.

How has
this course affected you today in your daily life and/or work?

What should
incoming students be aware of regarding this class?

What
strategies did you use that they may find useful?

What advice
can you provide to help them earn an A?

Writing
Requirements

Length: 2-3
pages (not including title page)