When you are reading the texts, in a presentation group, writing posts and/or presenting about the readings in discussion, here are some questions you can address:
General
Why did these events take place? Could there have been a different outcome?
Did you read about any events that were “unintended consequences” of earlier actions/events?
Do you think the events/people you read about were or were not representative of other events/people of this time period? Why or why not?
How does the reading complicate/complement what you’ve learned from Dr. Weber’s lecture, other history classes, mass media or anywhere else?
Does leaving out any of the events/people in the readings change interpretations of history?
Why do you think Dr. Weber chose this reading assignment out of the many other topics she could have chosen?
Did any of the reading support or contradict stereotypes?
Specific
Why did the American Revolution happen? Did it have to?
How did the United States come to have the founding documents (Declaration of Independence, Constitution)?
What were the implications of the Revolution on American society?
What was the role of lower classes, religion, women, African Americans, Native peoples, immigrants, and other groups during this time?
How did the market and transportation revolutions change the nation?
What was the role of slavery?
Why did the country have a Civil War?
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So I thought that this can, for the most part, apply to our world today. Even though women are gaining more experience in leadership, the male in the household tends to take the lead in relationships. He is the one that works the most, that earns the money and provides a dower for the family. Most of the time, the husband still tends to be the breadwinner in the home, and the woman tends more to things like taking care of the children. When teh parents die, msot of the money is given through their wills to the children and other people that are important to them. For my western civ 2 class, we were told to read John Locke's Second Treatise on government, which talks a lot about human equalities and inequalities. It is important to note (as the Henretta book does) however, that even though the idealized society treats all men as equals, the real society still undermines a number of ethnic groups.
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