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Assignment:

This are four short essay questions based on the lectures and corresponding textbook readings

Which are:

• Brooks, Western Civilization: A Concise History, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
• World History Encyclopedia
• The American Yawp Open US History Textbook

For each of the questions below, provide an answer (including specific examples!) of at least two hundred fifty words, which is about one solid paragraph.

Here are the questions:

1. Identify and explain one major similarity and one major contrast between the revolutions of the North Atlantic (The United States, France, and Haiti) and the revolutions of Latin America (Mexico and the South American countries).
2. What role did the Industrial Revolution play in inspiring modern political movements like liberalism, nationalism, and socialism? Identify and explain two examples of how the Industrial Revolution influenced developments in politics related to at least two of those movements.
3. Identify and explain how racial pseudo-sciences (i.e. false or fake scientific theories) and theories influenced politics in the United States in the mid-1800s and Europe during the age of imperialism in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Provide two specific examples.
4. What was one key factor behind the success of European imperialism from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s, and what was one example of effective resistance (including creative adaptation) to imperialism? Explain your answers using specific examples.