Expansion of the Market Economy and Social Change/The Market Revolution, 1800-1840/Homework help – Discussion: Pros and Cons of Economic Changes CHAPTER 9 THE MARKET REVOLUTION 1800–1840 A painting from 1850 of the steamboat Reindeer, by the artist John Bard. Steamboats, able to travel against the current on rivers and across the Great Lakes, played an […]

This opened up a whole new opportunity for the Europeans as the demands and the trade grew, Ships were departing from towns in Italy and Asia. Christopher Columbus discovered North American in 1492. Columbus sailed east from Europe trying to find a route to the east. He failed to Sal east because of the landmass […]

Women organizers in the Civil Rights movement (1950’s-1960’s) Women have always been regarded as key parental figure in raising and developing children in the society. During the period of 1950 to 1970, many parts of the world were marred with civil rights movement. The movements were characterized with protests and civil resistance complaining about discrimination […]

This week you learned about the American Civil War (1861-1865), a conflict that, very simply,  was about slavery. However, as President Abraham Lincoln suggests in his famous The Gettysburg Address.pdf, more than slavery was at stake in the Civil War. Consider the following passage from Lincoln’s The Gettysburg Address: “Four score and seven years ago […]

Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History The novel, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History, by Laurel Ulrich is about women who never intended to make history but did in different ways. History is usually always revolved around men, and not many mention about the women who have helped in creating history. Through the early modern era women […]

Essay Prompt: In a detailed, cited, and well-written essay argue whether or not you feel the Civil War was inevitable. If you are arguing the Civil War was inevitable, factually explain why nothing could have prevented it. If you are arguing the Civil War was not inevitable, factually explain how it could have been prevented. […]

Importance of Education A leader is a person who takes charge of their own life by self education. Sherman Alexie and Malcolm X demonstrate leadership by trying to further their people. In Sherman Alexie’s essay “Superman and Me” he demonstrates how influential education is to him. Once Alexie was able to read he wanted to […]

Today, the politics of the United States government is controlled by two dominant political parties: the Republican Party and the Democratic Party. These two political parties dominated US politics from 1860 to the present. This is not to say that the US electoral system does not allow the existence of a multiple party system. It […]

Most historians agree that slavery was among the most decisive factors that led to the Civil War. Thus, Abraham Lincoln, writing to Alexander Stephens, the will-be vice-president of the Confederation, while agreeing not to interfere with the slavery issue, admitted that the issue of slavery was “the rub” also adding: ‘It certainly is the only […]

The Man Who Stopped England’s Slave Trade “God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners” – William Wilberforce William Wilberforce was one of the greatest abolitionists in all of history. He fought for what he believed in. He believed in freedom for all […]