Great Depression

How does this current event article connect to the unit we are currently studying? What impact did the past have on the events taking place today?

Current Event journal Assignment unit 5-6 Over the course of the class, you will be retrieving evaluating current event articles (in the past 5 years). Making connection between the units we are currently studying and today. Find an online article from a reputable news source. Address each of the following: 1) provide a separate of […]

Write a case study of monetary policy; analyze monetary policy post-Great Depression.

Case Study Assignment Write a case study of monetary policy; analyze monetary policy post-Great Depression. It must speak on monetary policy during Roosevelt’s New Deal. ONLY MONETARY (not fiscal). This case study SHOULD NOT go into world war 2 at all. The research paper should be 3,500 words, plus a title page, an abstract, endnotes […]

In what ways did World War II contribute to the growth of the federal government? How did it foster what historians now call the military-industrial complex?

HIST WK4 For this discussion, answer all of the questions below. 1. What changes in American society prompted the activities of nativists the Ku Klux, Klan, and religious fundamentalists? How did these groups express their outrage? 2. What were the domestic and foreign causes of the Great Depression? How did President Hoover respond to the […]

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.

DISCUSSION Read/review the following resources for this activity: Textbook: Chapter 24 (Section 24.4), 25, 26 Lesson Link (video):  HYPERLINK “https://search-alexanderstreet-com.chamberlainuniversity.idm.oclc.org/view/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cvideo_work%7C3226547” \t “_blank” A New Deal: Part 5 Links to an external site.(7:20) Link (website):  HYPERLINK “https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/newdeal/intro.html” \t “_blank” New Deal Programs: Selected Library of Congress Resources: Introduction Links to an external site.(Read this introduction before exploring the […]

Which 3 of the New Deal programs initiated by President Roosevelt do you think were the most important? Discuss this in terms of how it helped fight the Great Depression and its long-term significance overall.

The New Deal(https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/froos1.asp) (FDR Inaugural Address) To help get out of the Great Depression, President Roosevelt initiated the New Deal. Which 3 of the New Deal programs do you think were the most important? Discuss this in terms of how it helped fight the Great Depression and its long-term significance overall. Defend each one of […]

What does the elaborate presentation of the musical in the film tell us about one aspect of 1930’s culture such as the social construction of race or gender identity, American capitalism, etc.?

AMST200: Introduction to American Studies Film Worksheet Answer the following questions based on the video watched VIDEO Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) Worksheet uploaded “GoldDiggersWorksheet” VIDEOS https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wDRhLzdBP10PQmbGRXPirKGV5b0iGJa4/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zrSJGbkKJBwt9gKsnduwtuRhs3hclNRR/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N3JXLYHb2u-iyRpAtfMQ6mKxCGLB26C_/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1omPvlhayTkFsk3fJfM3CMnPYPm3JsNTT/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/10OlzovA5PCHU4zo16o8FOwfZ-B9dgvpu/view?usp=sharing Type answers of 2-4 sentences to the following questions and bring them to class next week. Remember, we are watching the film as a […]

What was the role of “Migrant Mother” photographs in the period or great depression and what is it nowadays?  Did Dorothea Lange present the truth with the “Migrant Mother” photo

Topic: Documenting the great depression Complete the below readings and video and answer below questions: http://www.openphotographyforums.com/art_MICHAEL_STONES_001.php Who Was Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother? http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/12/02/dustbowl.photo/index.html What was the role of “Migrant Mother” photographs in the period or great depression and what is it nowadays? Did Dorothea Lange present the truth with the “Migrant Mother” photo? Is this photo […]

Are our current economic, budgetary, health care, welfare, education, environmental, and criminal justice efforts made so far to solve the COVID-19 pandemic and the host of other ancillary issues adequate?

COVID 19 The United States has been ravaged by a health pandemic. COVID-19 has created a series of public policy problems that the country has not seen since the Great Depression and World War II. America is now facing not only a health care crisis but an economic crisis, a racial and income distribution crisis, […]

How does Sanora Babb’s Whose Names are Unknown capture of Dust Bowl migrants? What does her novel suggest about the larger experience of Americans during the Great Depression?

Topic: U. S. FROM 1865 TO PRESENT How does Sanora Babb’s Whose Names are Unknown capture of Dust Bowl migrants? What factors shaped their choices to move? What conditions did they find in California? What does her novel suggest about the larger experience of Americans during the Great Depression? For this last part, you should […]

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