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American History Homework Nine Answers - Model (view source)
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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?
:... Americans should remember that we are not on earth to take over the world, but to instead, because of America's rich heritage, be a light to it. (Laura Grace K.)
:... Americans should remember that we are not on earth to take over the world, but to instead, because of America's rich heritage, be a light to it. (Laura Grace K.)
: ... you can have a larger country pushing around the smaller countries and being a bad role model to them with communism, just like a bully at school bossing the weaker, younger kids around. (Leonard G.)
3. Your thoughts on the progressive movement, please.
3. Your thoughts on the progressive movement, please.
:Progressive movement advocates want a government that protects its citizens. I think all countries have a need for better government. Haiti needs better government to make the lives of the people safer and better. For example, there was a school and the roof collapsed and 94 children died because the owner didn't have it inspected for safety. There there were a better government, there would have been a law that states you must have a building inspected for safety in order to be used. Many lives might have been saved. (Steven H.)
:Progressive movement advocates want a government that protects its citizens. I think all countries have a need for better government. Haiti needs better government to make the lives of the people safer and better. For example, there was a school and the roof collapsed and 94 children died because the owner didn't have it inspected for safety. There there were a better government, there would have been a law that states you must have a building inspected for safety in order to be used. Many lives might have been saved. (Steven H.)
:... We need less government, not more or smarter government. (Tom H.)
: 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 ... 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.)
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