History of the Americas Questions

Infrastructure unaffected by the war, 1/2 of the world's manufacturing power, 2/3 of the world's gold stocks, and 50 million babies will be born in the next 15 years. - Superpower

Locations where the atomic bombs were dropped on Japan

Filled vacancies in factories and farms and made military equipments to send to the front lines

Maryland, Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware, West Virginia

The nation state has been the principal political unit of world politics since the collapse of the classical Greece.

According to "The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture, the Negro Patriot of Hayti" approximately how many French soldiers died during the Haitian Revolution?

In the "Introduction" to Section 5 Philip McCarty argues that the slow transition of the concept of "nation" from its earlier connotation of "rabble" to "we the people" reflects a profound structural change in the social order. This process reflects the elevation of the rabble (or at least some of the rabble) to rights bearing individuals.

According to Benedict Anderson's "The 'Anomaly' of Nationalism" the era of nationalism is near its end.

For decades before the Industrial Revolution, people had been mostly gathered in the urban centers creating a pool of labor for industrial powers to draw from.

The concept of natural rights that came out of the Enlightenment led to several political formulations of what natural rights were. Which of the following was the first declaration of natural rights that applied to all men, no matter the color of their skin?

Which of the following IS NOT one of the Enlightenment ideals contained in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen:

In "The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture, the Negro Patriot of Hayti" Toussaint L'Ouverture was arrested and jailed, but was able to see the Haitian slaves freed.

According to "The 'Anomaly' of Nationalism" which of the following best describes how a nation is imagined (as described by Benedict Anderson)?

In the "Introduction" to Section 5 Dr. McCarty argues that the word "nation" evolved from the Roman term natio that referred to:

In his "Introduction" to Imagined Communities author Benedict Anderson argued that the liberal democracies of the West were nationlist but the socialist democracies were not.

In lecture, the Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh (2013) was discussed as an example of the power of workers to rise up and fight for their rights in the 21st century.

In the French "Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen" the authors state that men are born and remain free, although social distinctions may be made for the general good.

In the "The 'Anomaly' of Nationalism" reading the central concept that Anderson was trying to analyze was:

In "The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture, the Negro Patriot of Hayti" which democratic revolution most directly influenced the Haitian Revolution?

Nationalism and democratization are historical processes that in the contemporary era have achieved stability and universal consensus as concepts.