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Briefly describe a key idea or central theme from the readings. Type a brief quotation from the source (1-2 sentences, include title, author, & page #).
Who had been forced to leave their lands by the U.S. Government with The Indian Removal Act of 1830; they walked 1000 miles to the modern-day state of Oklahoma
Why does the American revolution begin in cities? Why does urbanization come at such environmental cost? Be able to answer with specifics from Seattle.
What attitudes about the rest of the world did Europeans carry with them as they conquered new territory? Were these attitudes justified?
Explain the causes and effects of Bacon's Rebellion. How and why did the rebellion start? What was the outcome and lasting impact of the rebellion?
Discuss how the sharecropping/crop lien system created a vicious cycle. Was this system simply another version of slavery? Why or why not.
Be sure to address how political thought evolved during the Enlightenment Era and how those shifts are represented within the Declaration of Independence.
How did black Christianity differ from white Christianity in the Old South? How did black Christianity in the South differ from black Christianity in the North?
How did Social Darwinism shape many Americans' attitudes toward inequality? Minorities? Immigration? Native Americans?
What were the major causes of the French Revolution? Were short-term or long-term factors more significant for producing the Revolution?
Discuss the roles that fungi have played in our development of antibiotics and other products. Identify specific types of Fungi that have been used in products.
Explain the risks and benefits if these technologies were used to gather information on you or your children.
Compare and contrast hunting- versus agricultural-based tribes. How did each respond to European incursions on their lands?
Comment on the statement: Since China's and India's economies will supplant that of US in the near future; Meredith's work is of crucial importance.
Which of the three theorists that we've studied has most profoundly influenced your view of the world today. Benjamin Barbers, Wallerstein and Jared Diamond.
Analyze what Russian revolutionary plate tells us about propaganda in Communist Russia. What message was the plate meant to convey? To whom?
Did the human condition profoundly change -- for the worse? How was the twentieth century similar to or different than previous eras?
Describe the potential benefits that China and India will accrue as a result of globalization.
Write a short summary of an article from a newspaper or magazine or online the deals with an environmental issue.
How would you characterize the last thirty years compared with the previous eras that we have discussed.
Create a journal entry of 500 to 750 words reflecting on what your life would have been like as an immigrant to the United States from 1830 to 1920.
Explain why the literary and artistic movement known as the Harlem Renaissance emerge? How did it advance the culture of the African American community?
Write a closer appreciation of either a Civil Rights Leader during the Civil Rights Movement or a significant Civil Right Movement event.
Develop a brief essay on the significance of Walt Whitman's When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, a poem written in the summer of 1865?
Explain why this historical event is important to you personally. In other words, why did you select this event to research?