history hw (need within 24 Hours)

Topics: 1) US Civil War started due to Southern actions.

             2) The Treaty of Fort Laramie of 1851 was never intended as a permanent settlement.

You will produce an essay of 1500 words and either agree or disagree with historians perspectives around the event. Outside referencing isn't will not be allowed throughout this assignment, you will only use historians quotes for your topic that support your discussion. The rest will be original work.

Choose an event from the two listed above historical event and select evidence that is relevant to the event.  Your selected evidence must allow you to conduct a comprehensive analysis of different perspectives on the event.  

Write an introduction about one page in length that:

·       describes what happened in your selected event

·       identifies the historical debate that has resulted from your selected event.

Comprehensively analyse different people’s perspectives of your chosen event. The different perspectives could be held by participants, contemporaries, historians, descendants, commentators, journalists, observers, official inquiries, and people today. These perspectives may be held by individuals and/or by groups.

For each perspective, demonstrate thorough engagement with the historical evidence as you:

·       describe and explain the perspective of an individual/group

·       analyse each perspective from the historian’s point of view to determine whether, in the light of the historical evidence, the perspective was, or is, justifiable.

Analyse the similarities and the differences between the various perspectives to draw conclusions about which perspective(s), from the historian’s point of view, has the most validity. Support your views with specific examples.

You could consider factors that may have shaped the people’s perspectives, such as:

·       are the people contemporaries of the event or later commentators?

·       were they participants or observers?

·       what is their gender, race, ethnicity, social class, or political affiliation?

·       has new evidence about the event recently come to light?

Write your essay

Write your essay. It could contain:

·        an introductory paragraph, which outlines your chosen event and its area(s) of contention

·        a series of paragraphs that analyse the various perspectives

·        a conclusion, which justifies the perspective(s) you support

·        specific, referenced supporting evidence.