Essays on Berkin

1 (a) During the great depression, both President Roosevelt and Hoover developed a set of interventions that were meant to revive the economy of the United States. The New deal was established by President Roosevelt and was against some of the strategies that were employed by President Hoover. Roosevelt embarked on a tactful mission to arrest the situation by influencing the congress to enact 100 legislations. The legislations were of great significance in the transformation of the US economy. President Roosevelt championed for the formation of partnerships between the government and the business community. President Hoover’s interventions advocated ...

Berkin has touched on many demographics in her story to show the role of women the struggle to attain freedom from slavery. Her use of different demographics has given her story an added advantage to explain precisely the role women played during this period. Berkin is not discriminative to explain that the Native American women who sided by the colonists faced a lot of challenges such as rejection from the patriots. This is one area that most authors always fail to mention as they will choose on a single demography such as race to explain the role of women ...

Central to American independence was the Revolutionary War of between 1775 and 1783, which saw the English Empire relinquish her control of the Thirteen Colonies in North America. Freedom came with the eradication of all monarchical rules and the formation of the United States of America under a Constitution to protect democracy. In that sense, Britain lost her territories because of the conflicts that emerged between the Empire and the colonists. Evidently, from the fact that the mother country sought to exert direct control over the colonies from its distant location to the notions of liberty that permeated the ...

One cultural effect of the War of 1812 was that the fact that the United States had remained unscathed with its boundaries intact. This led to a focus on nationalism, and on the expansion of the country westward. A new economic agenda for the young nation was then created, which concentrated on creating market economies in industrial locations, thus allowing for economic growth for many citizens. There was the so-called “Era of Good Feelings” that evolved, providing for the ultimate unification of the country and impetus for its expansion and growth (Berkin, et al, 2014).

Republican Motherhood

The term Republican Motherhood ...

Introduction

Foremost, in the years leading to the American Revolutionary War, patriotic societies in the thirteen colonies no longer relied on the Mother Country; in fact, they sought self-governance because the period allowed the same. After the Seven Years’ War and the signing of the Treaty of Paris, the English Monarch emerged victoriously and removed the threats posed by the Spanish and French forces. Hence, “ambitious colonial leaders were no longer threatened” and could claim more control (Zinn, 2005, p.59). At the same time, the “colonists contributed soldiers and economic resources” to aid in the war effort and as a ...

The Key Constitutional Concepts is a film that focuses the creation of the American Constitution during the historic Constitutional Convention (Key Constitutional Concepts). It has three segments that examine the creation of the American Constitution and two constitutional conflicts that were landmark cases of the Supreme Court. The cases include Youngstown V. Sawyer and Gideon V. Wainwright and Youngstown v. Sawyer. Specifically, the first section of the three-part documentary examines the creation of American Constitution (Key Constitutional Concepts). In 1787, the Constitutional Convention held in Philadelphia’s Independence Hall brought together the Founding Fathers who faced the daunting task ...

Part 1.

Since the end of the WWII, the United States has taken a leading role in the provision of the world leadership as the ultimate policeman of the world. The US has developed a series of foreign policies and treaties that are meant to guarantee the safety of the world.

Part 2.

A. (i).Financial and technical support to AMISON (ii) Killing of Osama Bin Laden by the US seal Navy army

B (i) Policy of containment

(ii) Provision of citizenship for anti-communist individuals who are being persecuted in Afghanistan. (iii).Culture of consumerism to promote US industries (iv) .Influence of US on Anti-narcotics policies in the ...