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HIST 405N Week 8 Assignment: Journal Entry – Reflection - Download To Score An A+ 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. One of the most relevant topics of our history that I feel effects my life today would be the civil rights movement, the civil war, and the different terrorist attacks. The civil rights movement has affected the outcome of opportunities for African American in...

HIST 405N Week 8 Assignment: Journal Entry – Reflection

HIST 405N Week 8 Discussion: Terrorism in the 21st Century Discuss how you see the "war on terrorism" as of this date. Do you think the United States should be engaged in such a war? Give reasons for or against this war and whether or not we are giving up our own principles to wage it. ANSWER The 21st century saw the dawn of the war on terrorism, as the 9/11 attacks and the Boston Marathon bombing dramatically changed society. Economic issues also moved t...

HIST 405N Week 5 Case Study Assignment Option 1: Big Business (Monopolies) and Exploitation of Workers – Download To Score An A+ The case study asks if the leaders of business were capta ins of industry, robber barons, or shrewd businessmen. I would like to surmise that they were all three. During the Industrial Revolution people saw the opportunity to make money. Educated men discovered new and more efficient ways to have factories churn out their products. The invention of the railway car ma...

HIST 405N Week 3 Case Study Assignment Option 1: The American System, Transportation, and Communication – Graded An A+ Describe the idea of Henry Clay's "American System." American manufacturi ng had to develop, or there would be no manufactured goods in America. The young American country had just gained independence in 1776; this celebratory event brought the country closer together and was a significant part of the American Revolution from 1775 through 1783. In addition to the war of 181...

HIST 405N Week 4 Discussion 1: Stepping Stones to the Civil War Professor and classmates, This week I have chosen to discuss: The Compromise of 1850, The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and the Lincoln Douglas Debates of 1858. I believe that all of these events had a major role in the American Civil War. They all had to do with the issue of slavery in the United States and where it should be allowed and whether it should be continued or abolished. The Compromise of 1850 was a plan for temporary polit...

HIST 405N WEEK 6 DISCUSSION 1: THE NEW DEAL (2 VERSIONS) HIST 405N Week 6 Discussion 1: The New Deal (2 Versions) What were the underlying causes of the depression? Why did the Great Depression of the 1930s seem so much worse than any occurring either before or since? The Great Depression lasted from 1929 to 1939 and was the worst economic depression in the history of the United States. Economists and historians point to the stock market crash of October 24, 1929, as the start of the...

HIST 405N Week 6 Discussion 1: The New Deal (2 Versions) What were the underlying causes of the depression? Why did the Great Depression of the 1930s seem so much worse than any occurring either before or since? The Great Depression lasted from 1929 to 1939 and was the worst economic depression in the history of the United States. Economists and historians point to the stock market crash of October 24, 1929, as the start of the downturn. But the truth is that many things caused the Great Depress...

HIST 405N United States History Civil_Rights_Movement WEEK 8 DISCUSSION.