Assignment
Section I
• Compare and contrast racial conflict in the South and the West.
• How successful were business people in overcoming the problems that confronted them in the last third of the nineteenth century?
• How did some urban housing reforms of the late nineteenth century eventually add to urban blight?
• Why was it so difficult to resolve such issues as the spoils system, the tariff, and bimetallism, which consumed congressional energies in the late nineteenth century?
Section II
• Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of progressivism.
• In what ways were mobilization and the war effort a fulfillment of the progressive legacy? In what ways did the war deny the basic tenets of progressivism?
• How did popular culture-whether in the form of best-selling novels, games, films, or radio programs-reflect and respond to the ravages of the Great Depression?
• Compare and contrast the Depression experiences of Mexican- and African-Americans. In your opinion, which group fared better?
Section III
• Describe the major war aims of the Allied Powers.
• How did the war change the attitudes of women and minorities toward their status in American society?
• Many historians feel that Harry Truman as much as Joe McCarthy gave force to the postwar "Red Scare." Explain why you agree or disagree.
• Compare the quality of life in the suburbs with the quality of life either on farms or in cities.
Section IV
• Compare the achievements and shortcomings of President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society with Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal.
• Defend or attack the use of civil disobedience as a strategy in the civil rights movement, using Martin Luther King's early career as an example of the technique.
• Both Indians and Hispanics were hardly "monolithic" ethnic groups in American life. Explain how that led to a variety of responses to the activist currents of the 1960s and 1970s, among both Hispanics and Indians.
• Describe the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade; then defend or criticize it.
Format your assignment according to the give formatting requirements:
• The answer must be using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, typed, with one-inch margins on all sides.
• The response also includes a cover page containing the student's name, the title of the assignment, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
• Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.