CHOOSE 1 TOPIC BELOW TO DISCUSS, USE 2 SOURCES ONLY. ONE (1) OF THE SOURCES FROM THE MATERIAL PROVIDED BELOW AND ANOTHER SOURCE FROM YOUR OWN RESEARCH. PLEASE MAKE SURE THE SOURCE IS LEGIT DO NOT USE WIKIPEDIA. AND MAKE SURE IT IS ACCESSIBLE TO BE READ.
SOURCES: https://vermonthistory.org/fenian-raids
1. Tsarist Russia arguably developed the most developed 19th-century police state. Discuss how terrorism shaped the regime’s policies towards the media, students, free speech, etc.
2. The Irish actions against the British crown shaped ideas about national liberation around the world. Discuss how Irish terrorism before the declaration of an Irish Free State emerged as a model.
3. Examine how the campaign for Italian unification and the rise of a Polizeistaat (‘police state’) in Austria-Hungary functioned in tandem to foment political violence across Europe and beyond.
4. Interrogate the differences between “individual terror” and other forms of terrorism. Is it more or less nefarious?
5.Explore the links between anarchism and terrorism. Does this ideology automatically predispose its adherents to political violence?
6. Discuss the notion of propaganda by the deed.
7. What is nihilism? Explore its links to 19th-century terrorism.
8. Imagine you are one of the framers of the U.S. Constitution brought back from the dead at the height of the anarchist terror campaign in late 19th/early 20th century America. Discuss how you think the Constitution addresses the issues presented to the U.S. government and local constabularies.