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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

Minimum of 3 scholarly sources (in addition to the textbook). The sources associated with each topic selection below can be used as part of the 3 scholarly sources.

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: