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Instructions Your Week 5 project is to write a 6-8 page paper on a topic of your choosing from American history prior to 1870. This week, you will prepare for your Week 5 project by brainstorming your topic and completing an introduction and outline. Part 1: Topic Be very specific and very narrow. For example, the US Civil War is too broad, while the Gettysburg Battle is appropriately narrow. You can select a person, an event, a cultural phenomenon, an invention, etc. For example, you might write on the religion or musical traditions of enslaved persons or the influence of […]

How did the Meiji Restoration affect class distinctions in Japan?

In examining the 1851 political cartoon (Document #3), how are Southerners arguing against Northern protests of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act? To what extent does this image relate to the issues raised regarding nullification in Documents #1 and #2? How does the 1856 political cartoon (Document #4) relate to the issues arising from the Kansas-Nebraska Act? To what extent did slavery complicate the process and politics of westward expansion in the 1840s and 1850s?

We have everywhere, even in colonies with a smaller educated community than in Malta, granted a share in government to local representatives… The only question therefore seems to be how far we can concede to the popular demands without endangering our interests in Malta as a fortress and coaling station.                                                                                                     […]

Read the Appleby and Salisbury essays in the Major Problems book and then explain what you think the respective authors meant by describing  “old” and “new” worlds for the Native Americans and Europeans.