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1. Week 4 Response Paper: Events take place in a sequence, and the
sequence matters
Week 4 Response Paper: Events take place in a sequence, and the sequence matters. Write a
response that supports this statement, using evidence from Week 4 to support your
answer.The Week 4 response paper prompt is about chronology. It asks to you support the
claim “Events take place in a sequence and the sequence matters” with evidence from this
week. As you watch the video below, pay particular attention to the different events and
developments that lead to the United States developing an empire. Keeping track of the
events in this documentary will help you to prepare for writing your response paper
(should you choose to write one this week). A very effective response paper will likely focus
on a well-defined historical outcome. In your paper, you might explain, for example:1) how
a series of particular events led the United States declaring war on Spain in 1898 (Caribbean
in relation to the U.S. “sphere,” the Cuban revolution, the Maine, the 1890s economic
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