Assume the role of a western farmer in the period 1800 to 1835. Tell what changes have occurred in your life. Specifically address the impact of industrialization and urbanization on American agriculture
What will be an ideal response?
Consider: massive population movement to the West; cheaper land prices; more roads, canals, and railroads; mechanization of production; from self-sufficient to commercial (specialized cash crop) farming; urban market in the East; sons and daughters move to eastern cities; mortgages and foreclosures in the Panic of 1819; the West becoming the battlefield over slavery
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What was most responsible for causing the Depression of 1893?
a. People invested more in the stock market than they could afford to. b. The use of silver for coinage made foreign investors wary about the U.S. currency. c. A series of droughts and dust storms threatened agriculture in the new territories.
Like Clarence Thomas, Anita Hill was a __________
A) life-long Democrat B) graduate of Harvard C) doctor D) conservative
In what ways did women participate in the Civil War, and how did the conflict change the status of women in both the North and the South?
What will be an ideal response?
Trace the outlines of societal hierarchies from hunter-gatherers to civilizations of the first millennium CE.
What will be an ideal response?