What caused the US Civil War? Explain the Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act, and the Dred Scott supreme court decision. How did all three try to resolve the issue of slavery in America? How did they contribute to the US Civil War?
Explain the main elements of the Market Revolution. How did the Market Revolution spark major change? How did the Market Revolution affect Women, African Americans, and workers? How did the US Government contribute to the Market Revolution? What connections from the Market Revolution can one make to the current capitalist economic system we practice today?
Explain the institution of slavery in the US? How did slave holders try to maintain order? How did slaves resist? Explain the Compromises US politicians made over the issue of slavery. How did democracy and capitalism contribute to the rise and fall of slavery? How did the Fourteenth Amendment pave the way for civil rights …
The Cold War came to an end when the last war of Soviet occupation ended in Afghanistan, the Berlin Wall came down in Germany, and a series of mostly peaceful revolutions swept the Soviet Bloc states of eastern Europe in 1989. Check out this short video and refer to the introduction of Ch 27 From …
Was Reconstruction a success or a failure? Or was it something in between? In your response, consider land policy, key legislation during Presidential and Radical Reconstruction, southern politics, racial and political violence, and northern “fatigue” with Reconstruction. Be sure to make clear what you mean by success and failure.
Describe the changes in Lincoln’s thinking that led to the Civil War being waged as a total war.
What strategy did General Grant ultimately adopt to achieve victory for the Union, and why did he do so? Why was his strategy criticized?
How did the war affect the economies of the North and of the South?
Did morality or economics dominate the debates over slavery in the 1850s? Explain the various arguments made for and against the expansion of slavery. Who, if anyone, was arguing for abolition?
Develop a comprehensive look at the condition of the United States after World War II. Why does a conflict emerge between the two wartime allies, the United States and the Soviet Union? What events feed the friction? What policy, articulated by whom, calling for what, does the United States ultimately adopt to respond to …
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