Assignment:
• To successfully complete this assignment, view the SE2 GUIDE to review its purpose, the necessary skills, knowledge, tasks, and associated criteria.
• Choose a 30-year period between 1890s and 1930s that you want to learn more about (e.g., 1919-1949). Then, choose a socio-political movement you want to learn more about over your chosen time span, topics might include reform, foreign affairs, affluence, poverty, race, gender, justice, or equality.
• Review the relevant chapters of the AMERICAN YAWP READER and select five primary sources (at least one from three separate chapters) that you can draw from to describe your chosen movement and its effects on the decades that followed.
o Example: Western expansion in the 1830s fundamentally reshaped the political and economic fortunes of both native and competing settler populations and arguably positioned the United States to succumb to the Civil War.
As you read the sources, ask yourself how they affected, reflected, and informed various groups' expectations of reform, foreign affairs, affluence, poverty, race, gender, justice, or equality. Then, write a 3 to 5 page essay that describes the effects of your chosen issue/ event/ topic over three decades of American history. Be sure you include a thesis statement, reference at least five primary sources from the class reader, and incorporate appropriate historical content and context.
o I recommend you use the ACAPS worksheet to analyze each primary source. If you completed an ACAPS earlier this semester that is relevant to your chosen topic, you may use that source for this assignment so long as it dates from the 1910s to 1950s.