Introduction The exploitation of colonial resources and indigenous labor was one of the key elements in the success of imperialism. Such exploitation was a result of the prevalent ethnocentrism of the time and was justified by the unscientific concept of social Darwinism, which praised the characteristics of white Europeans and inaccurately ascribed negative characteristics to indigenous peoples. A famous poem of the time by Rudyard Kipling, White Man's Burden, called on imperial powers, and pa...

World War I is different from most other wars in that it was not a direct result of aggression by one entity towards another, notwithstanding the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Serbian elements. Instead, it was a consequence of a number of forces amidst a disruption of the tenuous balance of power in Europe. What were these forces and how did they contribute to the outbreak of WWI? Solution:  Many historians have affirmed that the First World War War was a consequenc...

(TCOs 6 and 7) Identify and explain at least one cause of World War I. Then analyze the events that drew the United States into World War I. Evaluate America’s contribution to the war effort and to what extent America’s entry contributed to the end of the war. Make sure you use enough details to support your answer. Solution: According to Strachan (2014), the causes of the First World War were several and diverse. Taking this into account, one of the primary causes was the assassination of...

TCO 5) The first big business in the United States was the (TCO 5) After the Civil War, a leading trend in business was the increase in exports of (TCO 6) One justification for the new social and economic order of the North was based on (TCO 10) How did the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire affect industrial reforms? TCO 6) Most U.S. casualties during the Spanish-American War were caused by (TCO 7) The German invasion of Belgium produced global condemnation because (TCO 7) Which...

Describe the contributions of African Americans to the Union war effort. What special challenges did they face? Solution: President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation in 1862 played a fundamental role in opening the door for the African-Americans to enlist in the Union Army. Despite the fact that most of them had wanted to war effort earlier, the federal law had prohibited them from enlisting. President Lincoln had also feared that if he authorized their recruitment, Border States would s...

For what reasons did the colonists oppose taxation by the British? What methods did the colonists employ in their protests, and what were the effects of their protests? Solution: By the end of the 1970s, Britain had established many colonies across North America. Hurt (2018) indicates that most of the American Colonists thought themselves as British citizens under the subject of King George III. Nonetheless, in 1965, the Parliament passed the Quartering Act, which required the colonists to...

Other than rice, what was South Carolina’s most significant export in the early eighteenth century? By the eighteenth century, the leading slave-trading nation had become What aspect of the New England economy grew most dramatically in the eighteenth century? How did Thomas Paine’s pamphlet Common Sense transform American thinking about politics? Why did the British shift their attention to the South in the latter years of the American Revolution? What was the effect of King Georg...

(TCOs 1 and 2) Identify and analyze major actions taken by the English Parliament during the 1760s that angered the colonists, and discuss specifically at least one act that dealt with what the colonists viewed as unfair taxation. Then discuss the significance to the colonists of the Tea Act and the Coercive Acts and why these particularly galled the colonists. Make sure you use enough details to support your answer. Solution: The French and Indian War took a substantial economic toll on t...

TCO 4) What was the middle passage? (TCO 4) Which group established good relations with the Indians in order to facilitate trade? (TCO 4) Beginning with the Sugar Act, colonists objected to taxation by the British because they (TCO 4) Why did colonists turn to slave labor rather than indentured servants in the late 1600s? (TCO 1) Women were expected to participate in the political life of the new republic by (TCO 2) To protest British taxes, colonists often organized boycotts to ...

Discuss how you see the "war on terrorism" as of this date. Do you think the United States should be engaged in such a war? Give reasons for or against this war and whether or not we are giving up our own principles to wage it. Solution: According to Hoffman and Strindberg (2015), terrorism is regarded as one of the main global issues.  As such, war on terror has hugely intensified over the last couple of years, as countries globally collaborate with the aim of combating. As espoused to Ke...