2273 (600-900 words): Describe the main social groups, elite professions and positions of power, and social fault-lines in the Middle East and Central Asia between 1300 and 1500, with attention…
Historians often disagree on the true impact of Reconstruction. Based on your reading, discuss Reconstruction as a whole: the different legislative acts (for example, the amendments), the progress that was…
Using your book and the provided link, compare and contrast the secession documents of different Confederate states to each other, and also to the thinking of the American Revolutionaries. Many…
“When Disneyland first opened its doors in 1955, it was representative of the post-World War II demographic, economic, and technological transformations that took place within the United States, ushering in…
Discuss the following quote from Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Nellie McKay (general editors of The Norton Anthology of African American Literature) in regard to the period often referred to as…
About the Soviet Union, George Kennan wrote thata.Stalin's military was so weak following the war that it did not pose any threat to the United States.b.President Truman needed to bluff…
Roosevelt ordered the internment of Japanese Americans in the Western Defense Command because a.California's press and congressional delegation were pushing for it.b.Japanese Americans were caught signaling to enemy planes.c.Cases of…
Kennedy defeated Nixon in 1960 bya.Just 12 electoral votes.b.A popular vote margin of fewer than 120,000.c.Winning the three largest states, New York, California, and Pennsylvania.d.Sweeping the western states, which supported…
On August 2, 1964, the U.S. destroyer Maddox wasa.Part of a scheme to allow President Johnson to expand the war in Vietnam.b.All of the above.c.Off the coast of North Vietnam…
The National Organization for Women (NOW) was founded in 1966 to. a).Push for the civil rights of women.b.Counter the power wielded by the EEOC.c.Protest such pageants as the Miss America…