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[[American History Lecture Nine|Lecture]] - [[American_History_Homework_Nine|Questions]] - [[American History Homework Nine Answers|Student Answers]]

[[American History Lecture Nine|Lecture]] - [[American History Homework Nine|Questions]] - [[American History Homework Nine Answers|Student Answers]]

1.  In your opinion, the 2008 election that concluded on Tuesday is most similar to which election in history, and why?

1.  In your opinion, the 2008 election that concluded on Tuesday is most similar to which election in history, and why?

: I agree with them on some issues like the laws against sweat shops but some of their ideas I don't agree with like granting women suffrage.  Personally I'd rather have it so only property-owning citizens could vote ....  (Karen N.)

: I agree with them on some issues like the laws against sweat shops but some of their ideas I don't agree with like granting women suffrage.  Personally I'd rather have it so only property-owning citizens could vote ....  (Karen N.)

: The progressive movement was good and bad.  All in all, it isn't a bad theory, except for a few of the points it included. ... monopolies ... are not as bad as they are made out to be ... unions ... destroy jobs, the economy, companies and technological advances ... anti-war

: The progressive movement was good and bad.  All in all, it isn't a bad theory, except for a few of the points it included. ... monopolies ... are not as bad as they are made out to be ... unions ... destroy jobs, the economy, companies and technological advances ... anti-war ... sometimes [war] is completely necessary .... (Anna M.)

4.  Please explain the cartoon in the Minnesota Tribune, having the caption at top, "WHAT WILL HE DO!" and the caption at the bottom, "The eyes of the world are upon him."  Include your description of the point of view of the cartoonist.

4.  Please explain the cartoon in the Minnesota Tribune, having the caption at top, "WHAT WILL HE DO!" and the caption at the bottom, "The eyes of the world are upon him."  Include your description of the point of view of the cartoonist.

:In 1910, the Army Corps of Engineers raised the USS Maine.  The ship was believed to be a hazard to navigating the waters.  She needed to be moved.  Before the ship was moved to the deeper waters of the Gulf of Mexico, another court convened to examine (the remains of) the vessel.  This court determined that the explosion was from the ship’s magazines, which were triggered by an external blast.  

:In 1910, the Army Corps of Engineers raised the USS Maine.  The ship was believed to be a hazard to navigating the waters.  She needed to be moved.  Before the ship was moved to the deeper waters of the Gulf of Mexico, another court convened to examine (the remains of) the vessel.  This court determined that the explosion was from the ship’s magazines, which were triggered by an external blast.  

:In 1976 Admiral Hyman Rickover and a group of naval officers reviewed the evidence from the previous investigations.  They concluded that a coal fire started aboard the Maine and caused the magazine explosion.  They found no support for the “mine theory”.   

:In 1976, Admiral [[Hyman G. Rickover]] and a group of naval officers reviewed the evidence from the previous investigations.  They concluded that a coal fire started aboard the Maine and caused the magazine explosion.  They found no support for the “mine theory”.   

:More recently, in 1999, National Geographic did an analysis of the explosion based on computer modeling.  They concluded that an inward bend to the hole in the bottom of the hull pointed to an external explosion.

:More recently, in 1999, National Geographic did an analysis of the explosion based on computer modeling.  They concluded that an inward bend to the hole in the bottom of the hull pointed to an external explosion.

:The exact cause of the explosion still remains a mystery to this day.  (Nick DeJ.)

:The exact cause of the explosion still remains a mystery to this day.  (Nick DeJ.)