Category: American history homework help

Some early Europeans who visited West African nations promoted the idea that the societies they encountered had no history. Many questioned whether the societies should even be referred to as civilizations. Based on your learning in Module 2, how do you respond to these ideas? Remember that your answer must include historical evidence. You may find the sections that discuss early West African kingdoms particularly useful.
Your response must be a minimum of 250 words. Please use your own words, and do not include any quotations, links, or material from outside sources like Google, Wikipedia, etc.

 Find an online news article that is focused on a history topic that we have discussed in class.  
It can be discussing the topic as a pure history lesson. OR it can be discussing a historical event to make a point about a current event, but it must be focused on the history topic, not the current event.  Do not send an article in which YOU are the one making a connection between a current event and a topic we discussed in class, the author must be doing so–and they must be mainly focused on the historical event, not the current one. 
These may not be older than six months and must be from legitimate news sources (Wikipedia is not a legitimate source, nor is History.com–which is the History Channel’s website). The historical topic must be one that we have already covered since the second test.
Further, keep in mind that the easiest way to do this is to do a Google NEWS search. (Do a Google search for a topic that interested you, then limit the results by clicking on the “news” tool link). 

1300 words (double space) on  U.S. HISTORY SINCE 1877 
 Prompt 
The 1920s exposed many issues, racial, economic, religious, cultural etc… that had been  previously obscured or ignored by many Americans.The events of these decades have resulted in a permanent mindset among many Americans even today?

Prompt A: Debate  between Douglas and Lincoln 1858
Prompt B:Union officials met with black ministers in savannah Georgia 
Select ONE of the prompts below and respond with at least 400 words (about 2 pages).
It should include at least two quotes from the relevant primary sources.
 
Prompt A: In his 1858 debates with Stephen Douglass, Abraham Lincoln assured audiences that while he was
opposed to the extension of slavery into the territories, he had “no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with
the institution of slavery in the States where it [already] exists.” Five years later, Lincoln had issued the
Emancipation Proclamation and had proclaimed at Gettysburg that the Civil War was being fought to bring about
a “new birth of freedom.” Why and how did Lincoln’s position shift in these five years? Your answer need not
be comprehensive. Instead, it should identify two or three major developments that pushed Lincoln towards
freeing the slaves in the Southern states and towards his new sense of the war’s purpose.
Prompt B: In 1865, Union officials met with twenty black ministers in Savannah, Georgia. When
asked how the freedmen might best secure their freedom and independence, the spokesman for the
ministers, Garrison Frazier, said the following:
“The way we can best take care of ourselves is to have land, and turn it and till it by our own labor…
and we can soon maintain ourselves and have something to spare.”
Did most of the freedmen in the South get the land that Frazier said was essential for freedom
and independence? Did sharecropping, the economic arrangement under which many landless
freedmen labored, provide independence and freedom? Were the sharecroppers truly free? In
your answer, make sure to use specific examples from the sharecropping contract to make your
case.