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6-2 Module Six Short Responses

6-2 Module Six Short Responses

Q Overview: The short response activities in the webtext throughout this course are designed to show your understanding of key concepts as you engage with course content. Prompt: During the sixth week of the course, you will respond to several questions in the webtext as you complete each learning block. At the end of Module Six you will review your answers to these questions and ensure that you have responded to each question. It is important that you answer each question; otherwise, the words “[no response]” will appear in brackets when you submit the assignment. The questions and their original locations in the webtext are listed in this table in case you want to refer back to the reading as you edit, but you can edit your responses to all the questions directly in Module Six: Analyzing History, continued, learning block 6-4 (page 2) in the webtext before exporting to Word for submission to your instructor in the learning environment. Module Six: Analyzing History, continued, Learning Block 6-1 (page 2): • Question 1: Which source will you analyze using active reading strategies? Include the name of the article, the author, the publication, the date, and where you found it. Read your chosen source using the active reading strategies you learned on the previous page. Then, summarize the overall meaning and content of the reading. Write your summary below. Your summary should be at least one paragraph long. Module Six: Analyzing History, continued, Learning Block 6-2 (page 2): • Question 2: What events or historical forces contributed to the Boston busing crisis of the mid-1970s? Name at least three, and briefly explain why you think each one was a contributory cause of the Boston busing crisis. • Question 3: Name three specific consequences of the Boston busing crisis. Module Six: Analyzing History, continued, Learning Block 6-3 (page 3): • Question 4: Describe one cause of the event you have chosen for your historical analysis (keeping in mind that there are many), and explain one piece of evidence from your research that you will use to support this assertion. Describe one consequence of the event, and explain one piece of evidence from your research that you will use to support this assertion.

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The topic for my historical essay is the Great Depression and the source that I chose to analyze is America's First Great Depression: Economic Crisis and Political Disorder after the Panic of 1837 by Stephen Campbell. Campbell, S. (2013). America’s First Great Depression: Economic Crisis and Political Disorder after the Panic of 1837. Business History Review, 87(1). This article discusses the causes of the depression and how America came to be dependent on foreign trade like with Britain and how it struck a balance between liberty and social order which earned America an unbeatable place in global economy.