Tag: History questions

From 1300 to 1800 and from North Africa to India, Islamic civilization thrived under three dynastic houses: the Ottomans, the Safavids, and the Mughals. All three empires had a period of expansion when territory was enlarged, followed by a high point politically and culturally and later a period of contraction, when territories broke away. At the cultural level, the borders of these three states were porous, and people, ideas, art motifs, languages, and trade flowed back and forth.

Write something exploring the cultural advances that occurred under the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires. You might include artistic, intellectual, linguistic, and/or religious innovations that impacted societies at the time and had a lasting effect today.

11. The Cotton Revolution

1. Define the “Cotton Revolution,” and when did take place?
2. Where did the Cotton Revolution” take place?
3. How did the Louisiana Purchase influence or impact the Cotton Revolution?
4. What is the significance and relevance of Eli Whitney?
5. What was “Indian Removal” and its relevance to the growth of the cotton industry?
6. What is a “Reservation,” and its relevance to the Cotton Revolution?
7. What was the “New Eldorado?”
8. Define the five states that constituted the Cotton Belt?
9. What crop did cotton replace as the staple or bases for the prosperity of American economy?
11. How did cotton impact American slavery?
12. Why were enslaved Black women the most valuable asset to the plantation economy?
13. Who was Thomas Jefferson and his relationship to cotton?
14. What was his (Jefferson’s) perspective on farming, farmers, and the growth of the United States?
15. How did Thomas Jefferson define freedom for Black people?
16. What his plan or unique perspective on Black freedom
17. By the 1850s, what was the relationship between banks in the north and south to the cotton industry?
18. What were the daily acts of resistance against working on cotton plantations that was virtually shared by all enslaved African Americans?
19. During the Cotton Revolution, approximately how many pounds of cotton did the slave masters force the slave to pick per day?
20. Who was Matthew Brady Gordon, according the assigned reading?

In each paragraph, be sure to address the following:

· The main objective of the colony (profit, religious conversion of the Natives, territorial defense, religious freedom, etc.)

· Explain who the settlers were (men or women, families, priests, colonial officials, etc.)

· Describe how the local economy worked (products it was based around, who performed the labor, connections to global economy)

· How the previous three elements impacted how colonists interacted with the local Native peoples

The Founding Fathers wanted the courts to be protected from politics. In what ways was the judiciary designed to limit the role of politics? Are the courts completely immune from politics in their work? Why or why not? What role does politics play in Supreme Court confirmation proceedings? Should there be term limits for federal judges, including Supreme Court justices? Why or why not?

The number of people represented by each member of the U.S. House of Representatives has more than tripled since the size of the House was permanently set at 435 members in the early 20th Century. How does the size of the House of Representatives compare to similar legislative bodies in other democracies? Should the number of representatives be increased in the House right now? Would representation be improved if more representatives were added? Why or why not? Is there a limit to the size the House can reach before it cannot operate effectively and efficiently as a legislative body? Explain your position on this question

According to the document, what factors have altered the heretofore historic distribution of power?
What major issues does the United States face at this point in the Cold War?
What course(s) of action for the United States does this document recommend?
How does this document represent the militarization of the policy of containment?

According to the document, what factors have altered the heretofore historic distribution of power?
What major issues does the United States face at this point in the Cold War?
What course(s) of action for the United States does this document recommend?
How does this document represent the militarization of the policy of containment?

Consider someone you may personally know that is significantly older than you. If they were to think about what they remember about social conditions throughout their life, what do you think they might say? Were they alive during the Great Depression? Do they remember World War II? Were they involved in social movements of the 1960s? Do they remember the struggle over civil rights?

What evidence indicates that colonists continued to think of themselves as British subjects throughout this era? What evidence suggests that colonists were beginning to forge a separate, collective “American” identity? How would you explain this shift?

“North America at mid-eighteenth century was home to a remarkable diversity of people and different kinds of social organization.” In a thoughtful essay, defend this statement, touching on each of the colonies, the various groups of people living in those colonies, and the freedoms and liberties extended to them.

The major ideas, events, and people that led Americans to the decision to declare independence from England in 1776.

the events before the Seven years War that helped lead Colonials to seek independence from England, such as:

Exceptionalism and the American colonial experiment

The Glorious Revolution in England and the doubt it cast on monarchy

The Enlightenment and the way it applied to the american colonies

Then consider the impact of the taxes and repressive laws that followed the Seven Years War.