1. Why did many African Americans agree with Booker T Washington's statement that it is more important to earn a dollar than to spend one?
2. If you were a black person living at the turn of the century, who's arguments would you find more appealing? John Hope's or Booker T Washington? Why?
3. How did Andrew Carnegie justify the Accumulation of wealth?
4. How was discipline at factory mills lenient in the late 19th century?
5. Why was Josiah Strong concerned that immigrants made up such a high percentage of urban dwellers?
6. Why did ingersoll believe that the differences among people led to charges of racial inferiority?
7. What did Beveridge mean by asserting that American's were Gods chosen people?
8. What arguments did the Anti-Imperialist league offer against the annexation of any new territories.
9. Why did Kelly Miller insist that allowing woman to vote would be unnatural and injurious?
10. How convincing are W.E.B dubois's arguments in favor of woman's suffrage?
11. Why did the United States provide financial credits and loans to the European nations after World War I?
12. How might a working class American respond to Coolidge's speech?
13. What did Burke mean when he asserted that "The Negro was born in depression"?
14. Why was Hardin so opposed to government efforts to help the poor and disadvantaged?
15. What did the share our wealth program seek to accomplish with regards to personal incomes?
16. According to Truman, why had production of atomic bombs take place in the united states rather than elsewhere?
17. Should the United States have kept the technical information about atomic bombs with other nations or kept it a secret?
18. If you were a college student in the 1950's, what message about prevailing social values and gender roles would you derive?
19. What would have been some of the practical problems associated with the use of family bomb shelters during a nuclear attack?
20. What was the "feminist Mystique" and what did it suggest about the historical causes of female unhappiness?
21. How did Eisenhower characterize the Soviet Union?
22. What did John F Kennedy identify as the "Common enemies of man"? To defeat these enemies would government power need to be expanded? Why?
23. According to George C Wallace, what were some of the freedoms endangered by the civil rights act of 1964?
24. What were the economic and social philosophies of black muslims?
25. What did carmichael mean by black power?
26. What forms of sexual discrimination had gloria steinem personally experienced?
27. How does Phyllis schlafly justify the traditional role of woman being centered on marriage and motherhood?