1. Why did the United States go to war with Britain in 1812?
Which groups of people supported and opposed the war? Why?
2. Examine the impact the War of 1812 had on American industrial
development.
How did the Cold War establish the parameters for economic,
social, and political life in the United States in the immediate
postwar years from 1945 to 1960? (300 words)
The War of 1812, as a whole, best illustrates which economic
theory of war?
(A) Opportunity Cost Effect
(B) Rapacity/Greed Effect
(C) Information Asymmetries
(D) Collective Action Problem
How did the Vietnam War transform American politics and culture
by the 1970s? Consider the political, economic, social, and racial
consequences of this conflict.
What impact did the Cold War have on the black freedom movement?
How did black organizations adapt to postwar changes? What were the
outcomes, both negative and positive, for the movement and its
direction?
A. How did the Mongols impact the political, social,
and economic order of the Muslim societies they conquered? What did
they change and what did they keep the same?
B. How did Sufism develop from the early Abbasid
period (800’s) up to the late medieval period (1400’s)? Under what
conditions, if any, did medieval Muslims consider Sufi ideas
dangerous?
C. What social and political forces shifted the
political center of the Islamic world from its location in 950 to
its location in 1300?...
2. What has led to the domination of politics in the US by two
political parties? Is this domination by two political parties good
or bad? Why or why not? Do you think efforts to reform the system
would be successful?