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COMPARISON: How an event/idea/nation influenced others? CONNECTION: How an event/idea/nation emerges from earlier movements?
How do we define migration vs. invasion? Which term is most appropriate to the more fluid pre-modern political entities of this period?
How to practice cultural history ethically, as discussed in the Be Careful When Making Historical Assumptions section of the Unit V Lesson.
Using examples from the period 1000-1300 only, explain how you would rank the importance of religious, economic, or political factors in medieval development.
Did Social Darwinism contribute to the treatment of Native Americans by the U.S. government in the West in the second half of the 19th C?
Explain how the artifact reflects the character of this period, and support your insight with at least one example of a political, economic, or religious develo
How are Catholic saints conceptualized in the Vodou conceptual scheme and what theory best explains this development?
Write a paragraph that describes your state of feeling while thinking about these claims. Do they make you comfortable?
Describe the process of breaking down artwork into what you see. The videos provided two examples of how to formally analyze two different artworks.
What is Herbert Hoover's fear about the New Deal? What does he mean when he warns that a new deal would destroy the very foundations of our American system?
What was FDR's plan, as outlined in his re-nomination speech? Would Long and Hoover have approved or disapproved of this plan? Why or why not?
What was the circle of interests of Hildegard von Bingen? Who was the first American woman to compose a symphony?
Why were the Wampanoags and the Pilgrims interested in forming an alliance in 1621? In other words, what were the primary causes of King Philip's War?
How and why would you develop historical design content as a marketing tool? Could designers be equally creative without historical referencing?
What is Cowie's argument for the cause of the shift of the working class support of Democrats to working-class support for the Republicans?
What do you find of particular interest and why? Or what appears exceptionally different from the non-stratified societies we've discussed?
Evaluate Otto von Bismarck as a political leader/statesman. What were the consequences of the methods by which he achieved German unification?
Describe a strategy for how you could be conscious of presentism (the use of modern values to interpret past events) in the study of those past events.
What do you believe to be the major distinctions in their interpretations of history? Do you notice any biases? If so, what are they?
What role do you think revolutionary republican ideology played in the debate over slavery during the American Revolution?
How committed to freedom were the British? How does the experience of freedpeople after the war shape this analysis?
How did William Cushing come to his decision in the case? What do the facts of the case tell us about the limits of revolutionary antislavery?
Does his cause determine the answer to this? When applying that same criteria to John Brown, does your label for him change?
What were the colonial misgivings about "monarchy-wide cortes in February of 1810 (p. 350).
Write a two page essay on the relationship between the new market economy, the institution of slavery and the expansion of settlers out West.