Category: History

Let’s examine the secondary source by David J. Weber about myths pertaining to the Battle of the Alamo in Learning Module 7: Struggles For Independence 1810 1846.  For your follow-up, respond to the following questions:

What is the author’s main purpose?
What is the author’s main historical question?
What is the key evidence used by the author?
What is the author’s frame of reference/perspective?
What are some of myths researched by the author? Explain.
What has been the impact/consequences of Mythmaking surrounding the Battle of the Alamo?
How to cite this source as a footnote?

1David J. Weber, “Mythmaking and the Texas Revolution,” in Major Problems in Mexican American History, ed. Zaragosa Vargas, (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Cengage, 1999), xx.

The ‘xx’ are for the page # or #’s used.

Explain the causes of the American Revolution.  Why were the American colonists driven to declare war on the British Empire?
Describe in detail 3 causes of the American revolution.

In developing your answers to part B, be sure to keep these general definitions in mind:

describe means to illustrate something in words or tell about it
explain means to make plain or understandable; to give reasons for or causes of; to show the logical development or relationships of

Guidelines:

In your essay, be sure to:

Develop all aspects of the task
Incorporate information from at least three documents
Incorporate relevant outside information
Support the theme with relevant facts, examples, and details
Use a logical and clear plan of organization, including an introduction and a conclusion that are beyond a restatement of the theme

This paper should be typewritten (12-point font), double-spaced, and have one-inch margins. Please include your name, the professor’s name, and the name of your section leader on the top of the first page of the paper. (An extra title page is unnecessary.) The paper, which is worth 20% of the course grade, should be 2 pages long. Choose ONE of the following primary sources from chapter one in Major Problems in American History #2 (A Southern Songwriter), #3 (Louisiana Black Codes), or #8 (Lucy McMillan Testimony) and write your essay with the following guidelines in mind. 

After reading the source (a few times would be a good idea), you should place the source in historical context and assess its significance. Consider how the document sheds light on relevant aspects of life in the post-Civil War South. In addition to saying something about the time period in which the document was written the era of Reconstruction you should then analyze the document itself. You might say something (in general terms) about the author, about the documents purpose, and about the message it conveys. If possible, you might note the documents intended audience. In analyzing the document and explaining its historical significance, you can certainly quote directly from the source (use quotation marks to indicate a direct quotation). In two pages, you will not be able to consider every part of the document. Thus, you should write about those sections of the source that you find most interesting, important, or illuminating. The aim of your essay is to use the document to shed light on an important element of the historical period in which it was written. In short, by looking carefully at the document and discussing its language, you should explain to your reader how this particular source helps us to understand some aspect of life in the American South after the Civil War.

Note: In writing the paper, you should base your understanding of the period and the document on the two essays in chapter one of Major Problems; on the material covered in the relevant lectures; and on the discussions you have had in your sections. You do not need to do any outside reading to complete this assignment.

I want this paper to answer two questions. Each question must be 250 and using “just those sources that I will provide”
Question 1-Compare/contrast how social and political change happened in Britain and on the European continent in the first half of the 19th

Question 2-How did European conservatives, liberals, and socialists view society and progress differently in the first half of the 19th century?

I want this paper to answer two questions. Each question must be 250 and using “just those sources that I will provide”
Question 1-Compare/contrast how social and political change happened in Britain and on the European continent in the first half of the 19th

Question 2-How did European conservatives, liberals, and socialists view society and progress differently in the first half of the 19th century?