Explain how minorities were represented by the New Deal. Analyze to what extent you think that the New Deal effectively ended the Great Depression and restored the economy.

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Week 6 Discussion 1: The New Deal

Required Resources
Read/review the following resources for this activity:

 

Initial Post Instructions:
For the initial post, pick two (2) of the following (any program and/or act of the New Deal):

Reflecting over the weekly reading and lesson video The New Deal Coalition (also linked in the Required Resources), address the following for your selections:

  1. Consider workers, immigrants, and African Americans.
    • Explain how minorities were represented by the New Deal.
  2. Analyze to what extent you think that the New Deal effectively ended the Great Depression and restored the economy.

Writing Requirements

  • APA format for in-text citations and list of references
  • 2 sources required, 1 source must be in text citation from textbook
  • Minimum of 1 scholarly source (in addition to the textbook
  • Link to textbook – https://openstax.org/details/books/us-history

Compare your selections and analysis of selections with those of your peers. If they chose different groups, examine how yours are similar and/or different.

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American History

African Americans represented a minority group in 1880-1914. After the civil war African Americans started to migrate to different states. African Americans started to go to the northeast and upper Midwest areas. Most of these African Americans went to Chicago, NY, St. Louis, Philadelphia, Detroit, Cleveland, Indianapolis and Pittsburgh.

Another minority group that was represented in 1880-1914 was Women’s right activist. Women’s right Activist had fought for equal rights to vote, fair treatment, and pursuing reproductive and sexual freedom.

The socio-economic status and challenges of African Americans were facing poverty and becoming homeless. African Americans were not offered jobs or good pay to keep up with their households. The challenges that African Americans faced were racist’s acts such as lynching, death threats and violence. Women’s rights activist were discriminated against for their color, and gender. These women didn’t have the freedom of reproduction and sexual acts Women faces poverty as well.

The Industrial revolution affected African Americans by giving them job opportunities. Some factories, who wanted cheap labor, assisted African Americans with migration from the South where most of the violent acts took place. Women right activist was affected by the Industrial revolution changed the lives of a ” traditional woman”. These women also worked in the mines and mills with the men to support their loved ones. Women were giving far more dangerous jobs than man.

The progressive were reformers that challenged issues at the end of the nineteenth century. This group was based off of making America great. They helped African Americans by developing their own voice against racial violence.  The women’s right activist was apart of the progressive Era reforms wave. Activist established safe homes that taught and had services that helped immigrants. One Activist held a campaign for the lynching of African Americans.

Follow-Up Posts

  1. Compare your selections and analysis of selections with those of your peers.
  2. If they chose different groups, examine how yours are similar and/or different.
  3. If they chose the same groups, build on their posts by providing additional information about the groups that you have not already noted in your own post.

Writing Requirements

  • APA format for in-text citations and list of TWO references, including the textbook
  • Here is the link to the textbook

 

Write a 4-5 page analytical paper based on the book Twelve Years A Slave by Solomon Northup.

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Letter-styled Analytical Paper

Assignment Summary: Write a 4-5 page analytical paper based on the book Twelve Years A Slave by Solomon Northup. Use specific examples from the book to support your argument, and cite the quotes and information you use either with footnotes or with parenthetical notes (Author, p.#) to indicate where you found your evidence.

Imagine that you are an abolitionist living in Lorain, Ohio in 1853. You just bought and read a copy of Solomon Northup’s Twelve Years A Slave. Write a letter to a fellow abolitionist, Dr. Hendricks of Cooperstown, New York, to explain to him why you are excited about the book and how Northup’s experiences as a slave validate the abolitionist critique of slavery.

In order to do this, you will need to use the book and must use examples from The Primary Documents from “Digital History” (which I will link below) to establish exactly why abolitionists are against slavery, and then use specific examples from Northup’s book that demonstrate how his experiences support the abolitionists’ arguments against slavery. To do so, you will have to clearly define why abolitionists believe slavery to be an evil institution that needs to be eradicated. Remember that their perspective is connected to the logic that underpinned other moral reform efforts.

In formulating your critique, be sure to look beyond the issue of cruelty and explore Northup’s broader critique of how slavery corrupted southern society. In what ways does he play to the cultural and political beliefs of the northern middle class? In what ways does southern society violate the values of the northern middle class?

Though this assignment is in the form of a letter, you will be expected to address the topic analytically and provide a clear thesis that you support clearly and consistently throughout your paper.

Links for “Digital History” documents:

Specific Documents that might help.
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3026
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=1093
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=376

Do you think that the break-up of the Union was inevitable after Abraham Lincoln’s election in 1860? Could another compromise have saved the Union at this point?

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Give me liberty!

(The book we are reading for this class is: “give me liberty!” by eric foner. seagull 6th edition vol. 1)
Do you think that the break-up of the Union was inevitable after Abraham Lincoln’s election in 1860? Could another compromise have saved the Union at this point? In order to discuss this question, you need to carefully consider the positions of the Republican Party and those Democrats in the South who supported John C. Breckinridge. General points you make should be supported by material from the text.

What was it about this book that so motivated women of the postwar era to begin to break the rules and tear down the restrictions placed around them?

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Feminine Mystique

1. Although women had been agitating for equal rights in our society for generations, somehow The Feminine Mystique stuck a major chord and spurred women into high gear. What was it about this book that so motivated women of the postwar era to begin to break the rules and tear down the restrictions placed around them?

2. As we saw, in the 19th and early part of the 20th century, this was often the only way American women could publicly express themselves—by building strength in numbers and letting their needs be shown through marches, demonstrations, petitions, and endless organizing and agitation. American women could do this: First Amendment rights have allowed women–even when they couldn’t vote or had no official political voice–to make their demands heard, even at great bodily harm, as we saw when we looked at the “Night of Terror” during the suffrage campaign.

But, have women really come as far as we’d think?

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Work 7 & 8 Discussion

1, As we’ve seen throughout the semester, women of different racial and socioeconomic backgrounds have not always been on the same page to reach their one main goal: equality in American society. Following is an article by Prof. Debbie Harwell, “Wednesdays in Mississippi”: https://www.nps.gov/mamc/learn/historyculture/wednesdays-in-mississippi.htm

2. Because this is the final discussion for the semester you do not have to respond to other postings–but, of course, feel free if you would like to. Just post your own answer (the usual 3-4 paragraph essay) and thoughts on the issues presented below. You can use sources to support your answer, if you’d like.

In 1968, Virginia Slims cigarettes came out with what has become one of the most memorable of all TV commercials. “You’ve come a long way, baby.” Not only did it encourage smoking as a fashionable lifestyle, but the little jingle that accompanied the commercial has become almost as iconic as Rosie the Riveter and Helen Reddy belting out “I am Woman, Hear Me Roar!”

But, have women really come as far as we’d think?

Write an essay explaining what primary source is.

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Women’s rights, also known as the feminist movement

Research project step #3: Four primary sources with annotations

ANNOTATED LIST OF FOUR PRIMARY SOURCES: 25 points each, 200 words for assignment for each source. Due week 6.
What is a primary source? It can be defined as anything created by someone who might have been involved in an event, about the event, at the time the event took place. Primary sources, such as official records, letters (official and personal), diaries, newspaper articles, photos, posters, and cartoons are created at the time the events took place by people involved in them. Look through the list of primary sources provided in the “preliminary information” link.

For each primary source write a separate entry that includes the following information:
(1) a full citation the type of primary source (e.g., written document, cartoon, photograph, and so on);
(2) a summary of the information;
(3) and explanation of how the item pertains to your topic.

The Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s fulfilled many of the promises made to African Americans during the first Reconstruction, but was also shaped and driven by social, economic, and political realities that were new to America in the mid-twentieth century. At the same time, it attempted to add something new to American political thought and political life. Explain.

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Civil Rights Movement

The Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s fulfilled many of the promises made to African Americans during the first Reconstruction, but was also shaped and driven by social, economic, and political realities that were new to America in the mid-twentieth century. At the same time, it attempted to add something new to American political thought and political life. Explain.

You must use The American Yawp, “Letter from the Birmingham City Jail,” James Baldwin’s “Letter to my Nephew,”
Even though this question requires interpretation and is open to a range of arguments, please aim directly at the question and what it asks you to do.

Why was the atomic bomb developed? What reasons are given for the use of these bombs in World War II? What were the results of these bombs being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

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Critical Thinking Essay Instructions

Answer the following question based on your textbook ( United States History II (Waymaker) ISBN: 9781640873704 By: Lumen Learning et al.) readings AND at least TWO ADDITIONAL SOURCES. Your observations should be typed, double spaced with correct spelling and proper sentence structure, and approximately two-to-six pages in length (500-1500 words). Your research must be reflected within the body of the paper via appropriate citations. A Works Cited Page of ALL the sources you consulted, including the textbook, should be included as part of the assignment, at the end of the reflective essay.

Based on your research, answer the questions posed below, making sure to take a clear position on the final two question components.

Why was the atomic bomb developed? What reasons are given for the use of these bombs in World War II? What were the results of these bombs being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? In your opinion was the use of these bombs by the United States justified? Knowing that such atomic/nuclear weapons have not been used since 1945 and recognizing the destructive force of these two small atomic bombs, would there ever be any legitimate reason for using much larger nuclear weapons by a country in the future?

Discuss at least three specific reasons that this figure or event was important important. Discuss at least two lessons that could be learned from this figure or event and applied to our own era.

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1929-1962 Conditions

Unit Three Covers the time period from approximately 1929-1963. What event or figure from this time period in US History has had the most important impact on current events in our time? What lessons can be learned from this figure or event and applied to our own era?

In order to receive full credit you need to discuss the following points:

1) Discuss at least three specific reasons that this figure or event was important important.

2) Discuss at least two lessons that could be learned from this figure or event and applied to our own era.

Note: Be sure to discuss an event relevant to US History from the time period covered in Unit Three (1929 -1963). Discussion posts should be written in full sentences and complete paragraphs.