How did William Graham Sumner justify Social Darwinism? How was this ideology used in relation to Gilded Age economics?
How did the federal government influence Westward expansion in the late 1800s?
What were the main complaints of farmers in this time period? How did they lead to the rise of the Populists?
What were the reasons for American neutrality during World War I? Why did neutrality fail?
How did the politics of gender change in the 1910s and the 1920s? What movements or trends were significant in bringing about these changes? What sort of limits and resistance did these movements and trends encounter?
The 1920s have many nicknames. The decade was referred to as "The Roaring Twenties" and "Prosperity Decade"? How accurate are these labels?
What does Bartolomeo Vanzetti identify as the reasons for his conviction? How does this reflect social and political trends in the 1920s?
How were the First New Deal and the Second New Deal similar? How were they different? Use specific examples of the initiatives undertaken in each phase.