Answer the following questions:
1. Explain how changes in politics, economics, social factors, and violence interacted to effect the situation of African-Americans in the New South?
2. What rights did Chinese immigrants and Chinese- Americans gain in these years, and what limitations did they experience? How did their experiences set the stage for other restrictions on immigration?
3. How did consumerism and the idea of the “American way of life” affect people’s understanding of American values, including the meaning of freedom, in the 1820s?
4. Which groups did not share in the prosperity of the 1920s and why?
5. Who supported restricting immigration in the 1920s and why? Why were they more successful in gaining federal legislation to limit immigration in these years?
6. Identify the causes of the Great Depression.
7. What principles guided President Hoover’s response to the Great Depression, and how did this restrict his ability to help the American people?
8. In what ways did the ideas about (and the reality of proper roles for women change in these years? Answers should exhibit careful thought and logical reasoning and provide evidence for your position.
Each response should be at least one well-developed paragraph (approximately 4-6 sentences or more) Use correct spelling, punctuation, and grammar.
Requirements: 6 sentence paragraph per each question
