Discipline: History - American history

In the 1950s the United States enjoyed a broad-based, unprecedented level of prosperity. Rising purchasing power, expanding credit, and a rapidly growing advertising industry stimulated consumerism. One industry that rapidly developed and expanded was the automobile industry. During the 1950s, Americans purchased 58 million cars. By 1960, 75 percent of American families owned one. The […]

SERIOUS INQUIRY PRICE IS NONNEGOTIABLE   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: The Progressive EraLinks to an external […]

  Identify five people or events that are important to American history.  Your completed assignment will, therefore, include a total of 30 people or events. Provide a picture to illustrate each person or event that you are identifying. Provide the sources that you used in completing this assignment. • Part #1: Read Chapter 30: Identify […]

  2. Reform and the Urban Classes pages 361-365 A. Summarize the main points of the section. B. In your opinion, how did the “middling classes” define success?  Do these criteria continue today?   3. Self-reform and Social Regulation pages 366-369 A. Summarize the main points of the section. B. In your opinion, what reasons were used […]

  1. Read pages 373-374 2. Include background information (who, what, when, where, and why) on the article’s purpose, and then respond to the below: 3. What were the three issues women organized the convention over?  How did the fourth issue, women’s suffrage (voting), play out? 4. Does a civil rights movement exist today?  What […]

  Prompt Andrew Jackson is one of the most polarizing presidents in the history of the United States. People either believe he was a great president or an absolutely terrible president with few opinions in between. As a matter of fact there are a number of Indian reservations that refuse to take $20 bills because […]

    You must post three responses (200+ words minimum for each post). Students must post a minimum of three responses. Please see the syllabus for additional information on the requirements for discussion forums.   Additional or lengthy responses may improve one’s grade. Postings should analyze the issue as well as advance discussion and ponder possible […]

Question:  Automation, and not the outsourcing of jobs to other countries like China nor globalization, is the most important domestic challenge facing the economy of the United States, and one that any president is not able to combat. Discuss, with at least two examples. Word length: 1000 words Requirements: On the first page of the […]

Summarize the background, conduct and analysis of LT McEvoy and 1st PLT’s Tiranan firefight, and use four Principles of War to support your analysis.

Answer only ONE of the below questions: What was the Missouri Compromise? Who was Frederick Douglass? Who was Nat Turner? Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe? Who was Edgar Allan Poe? Who was Joseph Smith? Who was Brigham Young? What was Transcendentalism? What was the Seneca Falls Convention? What was the Underground Railroad? Your post should […]