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2. HIS 240NEW Course Real Knowledge / his240new.com HIS 204 Entire Course For more course tutorials visit www.his204.com HIS 204 Week 1 DQ 1 The History of Reconstruction HIS 204 Week 1 DQ 2 The Industrial Revolution HIS 204 Week 1 Quiz HIS 204 Week 2 DQ 1 The Progressive Movement HIS 204 Week 2 DQ 2 America's Age of Imperialism HIS 204 Week 2 Quiz HIS 204 Week 2 Paper The Progressive Presidents HIS 204 Week 3 DQ 1 Normalcy and the New Deal HIS 204 Week 3 DQ 2 The End of Isolation

3. HIS 240NEW Course Real Knowledge / his240new.com HIS 204 Week 1 DQ 1 The History of Reconstruction For more course tutorials visit www.his204.com The History of Reconstruction. Many Americans like to imagine the history of their nation as one of continual progress. While acknowledging that not all persons and groups enjoyed equal rights at all times, Americans often take it for granted that American history moves in only one direction: toward greater rights, greater freedom, and greater equality. This perspective makes it difficult for many Americans to understand the Reconstruction period and to place it in a broader historical narrative. The problem they face is that African Americans from roughly 1867 to 1875 enjoyed far more political influence and equal rights than they ever had before, or ever would again until the end of the modern Civil Rights Movement almost a century later.

4. HIS 240NEW Course Real Knowledge / his240new.com HIS 204 Week 1 DQ 2 The Industrial Revolution For more course tutorials visit www.his204.com The Industrial Revolution. Too much corporate influence in politics; the specter of socialist policies undermining capitalism and individual freedoms; a middle class in apparent decline; waves of immigration which threatened to alter the character of American society; new technologies which introduced new social problems as well as offering new opportunities; and a general sense that the common people had lost control of their government: To a sometimes surprising degree, the issues which troubled Americans in the last quarter of the nineteenth century resembled our own. The past often loses much of its vigor and tumult as it becomes codified as history, and it can be difficult at times to understand how truly revolutionary—tranformative, disruptive, unprecedented, and divisive—an event such as the Industrial Revolution was for the people who lived through it.

5. HIS 240NEW Course Real Knowledge / his240new.com HIS 204 Week 1 Quiz For more course tutorials visit www.his204.com 1. Question : In what year did the United States reach a milestone in which more people lived in urban areas than farms? 2. Question : The Dawes Act was significant because it demanded what from Native Americans? 3. Question : One of the most significant examples of corrupt business practices during the Gilded Age occurred in which industry? 4. Question : Gilded is a term that means something that is golden or beautiful on the outside, but often has nothing of value on the inside. Which literary figure termed late-19th-century America the “Gilded Age”?

6. HIS 240NEW Course Real Knowledge / his240new.com HIS 204 Week 2 DQ 1 The Progressive Movement For more course tutorials visit www.his204.com The Progressive Movemen. The Progressive Movement was a complicated, even contradictory, phenomenon which sometimes pushed for the expansion of popular democracy while at other times, or even simultaneously, advocated that the functions of government be placed in the hands of experts. The movement addressed some of the worst domestic problems of its time, but its mainstream largely ignored widespread and worsening racial injustices. Review the Progressive Movement of the first two decades of the twentieth century, and generalize what you take to be its core principles

7. HIS 240NEW Course Real Knowledge / his240new.com HIS 204 Week 2 DQ 2 America's Age of Imperialism For more course tutorials visit www.his204.com America’s Age of Imperialism. America’s Age of Imperialism was relatively short-lived, and somewhat anomalous in terms of overall US history. For a few brief years in the 1890s, the US aggressively pursued overseas colonies, holding on to those colonies even in the face of indigenous resistance and, unlike its handling of continental territories, offering the new colonies no pathway toward equal statehood and citizenship. The Filipino Insurrection of 1899 to 1902 provides a particularly unsettling episode in terms of how Americans generally like to remember their past. Having driven the Spanish out of the Philippines, the US ignored the Filipinos’ demand for independence, for which they had been fighting against the Spanish for several years, and instead took possession of the islands, treating the Filipinos as colonial subjects.

8. HIS 240NEW Course Real Knowledge / his240new.com HIS 204 Week 2 Paper The Progressive Presidents For more course tutorials visit www.his204.com The Progressive Presidents. The presidential election of 1912 was the most Progressive in US history; with the two frontrunners, Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, both espousing Progressive philosophies (and the most “conservative” candidate, William Howard Taft, being in many ways a Progressive himself). Although both Wilson and Roosevelt were Progressive, their attitudes toward Progressivism differed, at least in theory. This paper will provide an opportunity to review the complex nature of Progressivism, and to explore how presidents’ policies while in office often differ from their rhetoric on the campaign trail.

9. HIS 240NEW Course Real Knowledge / his240new.com HIS 204 Week 2 Quiz For more course tutorials visit www.his204.com 1. Question : Which African American scholar called for a “talented tenth” of all African Americans to attend a university, aspire to the highest professions, and abandon a conservative approach to race relations? 2. Question : In 1919 there was a devastating race riot in a major American city. Which city did this take place? 3. Question : Which of the following was not a representation or an example of New Women expressing freedom and independence? 4. Question : Who was the “modern Prometheus”?

10. HIS 240NEW Course Real Knowledge / his240new.com HIS 204 Week 3 DQ 1 Normalcy and the New Deal For more course tutorials visit www.his204.com Normalcy and the New Deal. When the First World War ended, Americans welcomed what they hoped would be a “return to normalcy.” The decades that followed, however, are ones which would rarely be described as normal, in comparison to what came before or after. During these decades, a struggle ensued within the American nation regarding how best to define the nation’s essential character, as groups like the revived Ku Klux Klan fought a rearguard action to define nationhood solely in terms of white skin and Protestant religion against secularists, Catholics, flappers, “New Negroes,” and others who challenged the traditional order. Immediately thereafter, the New Deal implemented in response to the Great Depression threatened to revolutionize the role of the federal government in lives

11. HIS 240NEW Course Real Knowledge / his240new.com HIS 204 Week 3 DQ 2 The End of Isolation For more course tutorials visit www.his204.com The End of Isolation. In 1938, in Munich, the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain made a deal with Adolph Hitler allowing Nazi Germany to annex Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland. Hailed as a hero for his diplomacy at the time, Chamberlain is now widely reviled for his policy of “appeasement” to Nazi aggression. Yet one year later, Chamberlain would lead Britain into war against Germany in defense of Poland once it became clear that appeasement had failed. By contrast, the US did little to halt Hitler’s initial expansion, and entered into the war only gradually, attempting, until attacked directly, to sway the outcome without going to war itself. Never again would the US remain so aloof for so long from such a momentous international affai

12. HIS 240NEW Course Real Knowledge / his240new.com HIS 204 Week 3 Final Paper Preparation (Native American history) For more course tutorials visit www.his204.com Final Paper Preparation. This assignment will prepare you for the Final Paper by initiating the research process and helping you map out specific events and developments which you will explore in depth in your paper. Review the instructions for the Final Paper laid out in Week Five before beginning this project. Note, that for the Final Paper you will need to discuss at least six specific events or developments related to your chosen topic, three from before 1930 and three from after 1930.

13. HIS 240NEW Course Real Knowledge / his240new.com HIS 204 Week 3 Quiz For more course tutorials visit www.his204.com 1. Question : The cornerstone of the Second New Deal was the Social Security Act of 1935. Which of the following was not true about it? 2. Question : While the United States was fighting for the ideals of democracy during World War II, there were examples of liberties taken away by the U.S. government. Which of the following was the best example of this? 3. Question : The 1920s was an era in which a New Woman emerged. Which was the least prevalent characteristic of her?

14. HIS 240NEW Course Real Knowledge / his240new.com HIS 204 Week 4 DQ 1 A Single American Nation For more course tutorials visit www.his204.com A Single American Nation. When the First World War began, African-American leaders pressed the government to provide black men the right to go to combat to prove their devotion to their country. Hoping that their service would lay a stake on citizenship which the nation would have no choice but to honor, the “New Negro” of the 1920s adopted a more militant stance toward civil rights. The civil rights struggle envisioned at the time, however, made few concrete gains. Discrimination and disenfranchisement persisted.

15. HIS 240NEW Course Real Knowledge / his240new.com HIS 204 Week 4 DQ 2 Cold War For more course tutorials visit www.his204.com Cold War. After the Second World War, the US embarked on what came to be known as the Cold War against the Soviet Union. Although the two sides never fought against each other directly, the Cold War nonetheless erupted into violence at times in places like Vietnam, Korea, and Afghanistan. As the US grew more activist and interventionist in its foreign policy, the domestic government also grew in power and in its role in the people’s lives.

16. HIS 240NEW Course Real Knowledge / his240new.com HIS 204 Week 4 Quiz For more course tutorials visit www.his204.com 1. Question : The “problem that had no name” centered upon: 2. Question : The Big Three decided on many important decisions at the Yalta Conference at the end of World War II. Which group was not one of them? 3. Question : Kennedy immediately understood the centrality of international issues and devoted significant attention to them from his first days in office. Which of the following best characterizes his strategy of flexible response? 4. Question : In their critique of 1950s culture, which of the following did the Beats advocate the least? 5. Question : Which of the following was not a civil rights group that began after World War II?

17. HIS 240NEW Course Real Knowledge / his240new.com HIS 204 Week 5 DQ 1 The Age of Reagan For more course tutorials visit www.his204.com The Age of Reagan. Most of us have lived much of our lives in the “Age of Reagan,” a period which dates from 1980 and which may still be ongoing today. Historians increasingly agree that the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 represented a “revolution” in American society and, particularly, its politics. Review Reagan’s presidential career to explain what about it precisely was so “revolutionary.” Compare his approach to politics and foreign affairs with those of his predecessors, and assess the ways that his successors either built upon or attempted to reverse his legacy.

18. HIS 240NEW Course Real Knowledge / his240new.com HIS 204 Week 5 DQ 2 The Lived Experience of Ordinary People For more course tutorials visit www.his204.com The Lived Experience of Ordinary People. Especially since the 1960s, historians have sought to understand history not just as a series of major events presided over by generals and statesmen, but also as the lived experience of ordinary people. For this last discussion, begin by reflecting on your own past with an eye toward how American society has changed over the course of your life. In your response, focus less on major political or international events than on the ways day-to-day life in America is different today from what it was when you were younger. You might consider such factors as the cost of goods and services, the forms of entertainment, means of communication, and so forth. Next, identify what you believe to be the most pressing problem facing America today, providing evidence from recent news sources to show that the problem is real and pressin

19. HIS 240NEW Course Real Knowledge / his240new.com HIS 204 Week 5 Final Paper Native American history For more course tutorials visit www.his204.com Focus of the Final Paper Understanding history can be more difficult than many people imagine. Historians concern themselves not only with what happened but with why it happened. They analyze and assess a variety of sources, including primary sources (ones created during the time period the historian is examining) and secondary sources (ones written by other historians after the period), to create their own interpretations of the past. For the Final Paper, students will not only learn about the past, but also experiment with the interpretive, analytical methodologies of the historian.

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