Critical Reflection 1: Reconstruction and westward expansion

Order Info Сustomer's subject: History Topic: Critical Reflection 1: Reconstruction and westward expansion Type of work: Discussion Post Level: College Number of pages: 1 page = 275 words Formatting style: MLA Language Style: English (U.S.) Sources: Directions: To formulate your answer to the questions below you must use the resources provided for you in this course (lectures, primary sources, American Yawp). Failure to do so will affect your grade accordingly. Address one of the questions below. Do NOT use outside resources. Question(s): How did Northern and Southern Nationalism lead to the Civil War? How did Northern and Southern Nationalism determined nature of the economic, political, and social debates of Reconstruction? How did Reconstruction fail and how did it succeed economically, politically, and socially? How did African-Americans, Yankee Unionist, and Southern nationalism view Reconstruction? The Declaration of Independence states that "all men are created equal" and that they all have a right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." The Preamble to the Constitution declares, "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promise the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity." How did Reconstruction in theory and in practice arrive closer to making these promises real and/or how did Reconstruction break these promises of the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution? What role did race theories play in the development of the West and U.S. expansion beyond North American borders? How did race, gender, imperialism, and public opinion intersect in the United States during the turn-of-the-century? How did Indigenous Americans and foreigners experiencing US expansion counter American intervention? How did industrialization relate to American expansion West, into the Pacific, and Latin America? How did US racial biases against "new immigrants" relate to racial biases against Cubans, Filipinos, and Hawaiians? Detailed Directions Read the prompt carefully to understand what your reader expects. Before you begin to address the prompt you should have viewed the video-lecture and read the secondary and (at least two) primary sources and annotate/highlight the information or examples that will help you prove your main idea to the prompt. As you write your weekly critical reviews you should keep in mind these two objectives: 1) read analytically and think critically; and 2) improve how you explain what you are observing and how you rationalize what is happening in the readings (that is, you are working on the improvement of your written communication skills). With these purposes in mind you will 1) analytically read historical material(s) to answer specific prompt questions, and 2) write a clear and strong comment as a reply to these questions. You accomplish the above objectives and proposes by efficiently writing: 1) you need a clear topic sentence or main idea, 2) you need to provide primary evidence and examples (at least two) from the readings that support your topic sentences, and 3) you must finish with a concluding sentence. The topic sentence of your WCR should be a direct answer to one or more of the prompt’s question(s). It should be only one sentence. If it is more than one sentence then it is not a topic sentence or main idea. In the body of the reflection you most support your main idea with the evidence you have annotated/highlighted from your reading of the materials. I strongly encourage you to explain this information and the examples you select in your own words. Do not quote from the materials unless you believe the authors’ words cannot be expressed better in other words. If you quote, you have to cite the source (author and or title of primary source is sufficient). In the last sentence of your comment, you reaffirm the main idea you have offered in your topic sentence. This is your conclusion. Assessment: My reading of your CR will assess whether your submission demonstrates 1) you understand the prompt and assigned materials; and 2) your ability to organize your ideas and the evidence you have collected in a strong paragraph (topic sentence, evidence, and conclusion).