How were Latinx, Native American, Chinese, and working class people treated in California after the Mexican-American War?

⦁ Your replies must address each of the claims made in the student’s first post and why you agree or disagree with their arguments and the evidence they use to support it.
⦁ can be cited in Chicago or APA format only.

⦁ What is the instructor looking for in my post? Students will be graded on how well they understand the course concepts and content. The use of ANY OUTSIDE SOURCES will result in an automatic zero on the assignment. Similarly, if a post lacks in-text citations, it will receive 0 points. The posts will be graded on substance, quality, familiarity with concepts in the learning content, and ability to follow directions.

Read/Watch:
⦁ Richard Rice, William Bullough, et al The Elusive Eden A New History of California, Fifth Edition Chapter 10-13
⦁ The Modoc War: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv3NSN-8b3o
Response Prompt:
How were Latinx, Native American, Chinese, and working class people treated in California after the Mexican-American War? Discuss how the treatment of these groups differed at the hands of American authorities compared to the Mexican authorities? In your response discuss the significance of The Foreign Miners’ Tax Law of 1850, Gwin Land Act of 1851, The Settlers’ Grand League, and Mussel Slough controversy.

Describe your leadership framework and your rationale for its development. This final paper should be approximately 15 pages.

Leadership Formation

Final Paper Instructions.

The final paper for this class is the development of a personal leadership framework. This framework should reference the readings and discussions from our class but may also include additional resources. In this paper, you will describe your leadership framework and your rationale for its development. This final paper should be approximately 15 pages.

 

Define the policy issue selected; explain how the issue affects the nation; and the current regulatory status of the issue.

Gun Regulation
Scholarly Sources include your textbook– which is a great place to begin; law journals; official government websites. You must use a minimum of four (4) scholarly and varied sources to define the policy issue selected; explain how the issue affects the nation; and the current regulatory status of the issue. You must use a minimum of one primary source for this section. An example would be a federal law or US Supreme Court decision.
You must clearly cite all sources within the paper and include a work cited page. You are free to use APA, MLA, CHA, etc. Simply choose a method and stay consistent. You will use a minimum of seven sources for this assignment.

What problems did Americans face when he came into office? What progress has been made so far?

For this journal entry, listen and/or read the transcript for Franklin D. Roosevelt’s second “Fireside Chat” describing his plans for the New Deal on May 7, 1933. Then, listen/read the excerpt from an interview with Ossie Davis, a Black American who describes the impact of the New Deal on his community.

Consider the following questions in your journal response:

According to Roosevelt, what problems did Americans face when he came into office?
What progress has been made so far?

Describe how Roosevelt plans to address some of these issues that Americans faced during the Great Depression.

According to Ossie Davis, what impact did Roosevelt’s New Deal have on Black Americans?

Journal entries should be at least 300 words in length.

What do you think it was like to be experiencing life at that very moment?

You need to state your soldier’s name, rank, regiment, age, and hometown at the top of the letter along with the date and place where the letter was written. Also, indicate which page in the graphic novel inspired your letter. A quality letter should reflect the soldier’s personality and experiences.
You can write and structure the letter as you wish, but you will need to address three topics in some detail.
The letter must detail the soldier’s impressions and capture the sights, sounds, and smells around him and use language from the times. Look closely at what’s happening around the solider. Look at the proximity to other men, machinery, weapons. What do you think it was like to be experiencing life at that very moment?

What is your overall impression of the book?What’s beyond their story?

Read the again book in its entirety and write a reflection. To help guide your writing, reflect on something that stood out to you in the book, something the book made you think or wonder about, and how the book made you feel. After this reading, what is your overall impression of the book?

Part 2: Character Study. What’s beyond their story?
Choose one character from the book other than Joe and George Smith. Identify the character and briefly describe their story in the book. Then, consider what is ‘under the surface’ of their story. What other historical issues and events are illuminated by the character’s story in the book.

Part 3: Write a Letter
Use informed creativity to write a letter home from the perspective of one of the soldiers the World War I Graphic Novel by Cowsill and Sharma
In Cowsill and Shamas’ The War to End all Wars: World War One, 1914-1918, we get soldiers’ views of the war as the events and battles unfold. For the first part of the The Great War Project you are going to write a letter home from the perspective of one of the soldiers. This will involve using your informed creativity. Choose from one of the following soldiers:

Who is responsible for establishing new peacekeeping operations around the world? Who renews these missions or closes them?

Blue Helmet

UN Peacekeeping helps countries navigate the difficult path from conflict to peace. The UN has unique strengths, including legitimacy, burden sharing, and an ability to deploy troops and police from around the world, integrating them with civilian peacekeepers to address a range of mandates.
Do you think they are successful operations?
Pick one and describe its success and/ or failure.
Who is responsible for establishing new peacekeeping operations around the world? Who renews these missions or closes them?

– https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/role-of-security-council
Who finances them?
– https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/role-of-general-assembly
What’s A4P?
– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIHWqrtmbrg
Who are the “blue helmets”?
– https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/military
How many UN Peacekeeping missions does the UN have at the moment around the world?
– https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/where-we-operate

Identify, discuss, and critically analyze the silences and mis-interpreted “facts” that the historical narrative you presented in your Infographic is based on.

This Historical Background Essay assignment is the third section of your Independent Inquiry Project.

The Historical Background Essay will apply a “test of credibility” to the public historical narrative of the site you have chosen for your project, which you already presented in your Infographic. You will do this by detailing the history that was silenced in the making of the site’s publicly accepted historical narrative in 3 double-spaced pages. In other words, this essay will identify, discuss, and critically analyze the silences and mis-interpreted “facts” that the historical narrative you presented in your Infographic is based on.

Identify an invention that profoundly changed daily American life in the 19th century and explain its impact.

Select one topic from below and write a short paper about it. Use the Internet to research your topic to help you discuss any new discoveries or inventions dealing with your topic or any other relevant, interesting information.

Topics: choose one of them

Key Principles of the U.S. Constitution – Recall the five key principles of the U.S. Constitution from Section 3.7. Describe one of those basic principles and at least one specific example of it in practice in U.S. history.

Natural Rights – An underlying principle of the U.S. Constitution is the protection of people’s natural rights. Explain the concept of natural rights. Choose three Amendments and explain how each one helps protect people’s natural rights.

Important Invention – Identify an invention that profoundly changed daily American life in the 19th century and explain its impact.

List your textbook on the reference page as follows: there should be 2 to 3 additional references besides the one below

U.S. History.  https://www.excelhighschool.com