Explain how the fear of communism influenced modern US History. Use at least four specific examples and detail how the fear resulted in direct action from the US government, people, or culture.
1. Capitalism, or economic success, becomes a defining American characteristic during the period this course studies (1880-1990). Find primary and secondary source evidence to support or refute this statement.
1. Explain how the fear of communism influenced modern US History. Use at least four specific examples and detail how the fear resulted in direct action from the US government, people, or culture. Be specific in your response using evidence from your textbook, primary source readings, lectures, and videos to support your argument.
1. Discuss the transition of the US government from isolationist to globalist. Use at least four specific events and detail how the event led the US closer to global foreign policy. Be specific in your response using evidence from your textbook, primary source readings, lectures, videos to support your argument.
1. How did white Americans define who was and wasn’t “American” during the period this course studies (1880-1990)? Who fit this definition? Your response should include:
4. At least one definition (from a primary source, not a dictionary)
4. At least three examples of how the actions of white Americans reinforced that definition.
1. Pick ONE of the US Civil Rights Movements (African American, Feminism, Latinx, American Indian, LGBTQ, Disability Rights). Using primary and secondary sources, discuss four examples where the movement succeeded and/or failed. Be specific in your response using evidence from your textbook, primary source readings, lectures, and videos to support your argument.
1. Choose one group African Americans or Women. How did their lives change over the course of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries? Please detail at least four specific examples and outline the evolution. Be specific in your response using evidence from your textbook, primary source readings, lectures, videos to support your argument. [HINT: YOU SHOULD NOT BE TALKING ABOUT SLAVERY.. that is History 1301 and happened before 1877]
1. Examine how Americans moving away from urban centers in the Northeast and upper Midwest (ie places like New York City, Boston, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland, etc) to suburbs or the South changed the landscape, society, or culture of the United States after WWII.
