Describe what you think are the most important factors that shaped America into the country it is today.

Unit Three Primary Source Analysis

Prompt: Since WWII, American society changed drastically and there are still people alive today who experienced it all. Using at least 5 primary sources from the American Yawp Reader chapters assigned in Unit Three, describe what you think are the most important factors that shaped America into the country it is today.

Are there certain people/events/issues that had the most impact on today’s society?

What explains the rise of conservativism and the religious right in American politics?

Lesson Module Nine: The Rise of Conservativism and the Recent Past

Answer the following prompt:

What explains the rise of conservativism and the religious right in American politics? You are now living in a moment of history- in 50 years historians will be analyzing the American society you are currently experiencing. What do you think historians will say? What issues will they look at? If you could provide evidence to those historians that would demonstrate what you think is the most important thing to know about this moment in history what would it be? What would you leave for historians to analyze?

How did the Cold War affect notions of what an American family should be?Why do you think the middle-class family home became idealized during this period?

Lesson Module Seven: The Cold War

Answer the following prompt:

How did the Cold War affect notions of what an American family should be?Why do you think the middle-class family home became idealized during this period?

Why do you think Joseph McCarthy rose to such prominence during the cold war, what did he represent, and what were the effects of McCarthyism in American society?

Discuss the Civil Rights Movement and its connection to decolonization and post-war affluency.

Final Exam

This is a take-home examination, covering all the material we have read, watched, or discussed in class since the beginning of the semester. It will consist of two essay questions.

Your exam must be turned in on Canvas by Thursday, July 29th by 11:59pm.

Your entire exam should not exceed eight (8) double-spaced pages in length.

For the exam, students must turn in organized, polished work of not more than eight (8) pages. Students are expected to refer to the textbook and other sources that we have read for the exam; references to additional (outside) sources are welcome, but not required. BOTH ESSAYS MUST INCLUDE CITATIONS. All references to the literature must be properly cited (in whatever citation form students prefer). Your responses must reflect an understanding of the readings from the textbook and a presence at the lectures.Your responses must be based on the relevant readings, lectures, films, class discussions, and hand-outs. The goal is to demonstrate that you have read the assigned material and understand key concepts. Remember to use specific evidence and/or examples to support your arguments. You should cite your sources and include a Works Cited page in MLA or Chicago format. (Opinions without evidence, however interesting, are not sufficient.)

DO NOT use materials from the Internet without clear identification of the source. DO NOT cite texts without using inverted commas and appropriate attribution. Copying of texts from the Internet is considered plagiarism.

Be sure to have a clear argument that you defend with relevant evidence.Organize your paper with a logical structure and use clear topic sentences and transitions to help your reader understand the logic of your organization. Edit your essays thoroughly to avoid errors and to improve readability.Give each of your essays a title that reflects your argument.

Grading criteria:

Argument:Does your paper have a clear, singular, specific argument that answers the question?
Evidence:Do you use all of the relevant evidence to defend your argument?
Organization:Does your paper have a logical structure and use clear topic sentences and transitions?
Clarity:Is your prose efficient, crisp and polished, free of excessive passive voice or distracting spelling or grammatical errors?

Each essay is worth up to 50 points.

Formatting for each essay:

12-pt., Times New Roman font, double-spaced
1” margins
3-4 full, double-spaced pages
Both Part 1 and Part 2 need to be included in a single document (Word, Pdf, Txt, etc).

Questions:

Part 1:

How did the New Deal reorient Americans’ relationship to government?

How did World War II transform America’s standing in the world?

How did decolonization shape post-World War II American life?

In what ways was the Cold War similar to previous wars in the United States? In what ways did it differ? How was this war fought? Use specific examples.

What were the contradictions of the Affluent Society? And how did American life fundamentally change in the 1950s?

What communities were not helped by the new affluency of the 1950s? What led to these disparities?

Part 2:

What characterized the energy and activism of the 1960s? What happened to the idealism of the 1960s?

Discuss the Civil Rights Movement and its connection to decolonization and post-war affluency. Use specific examples.

Describe the Power Movements and their goals and tactics. How did the goals differ for different groups, and what were their tactics? Use specific examples.

How did the New Right shift political discourse in the United States? Use specific examples.

How has globalization and international economic growth changed recent American history? Discuss using specific arguments.

Examine and analyze Woodrow Wilson’s ideas about foreign policy.To what extent did Wilson put into practice his stated ideas?

Need essay answers to five American history questions. The Questions are;
(chapters 15-17), Henry Demarest Lloyd wrote in Wealth against Commonwealth (1864), “Liberty and monopoly cannot live together.” Based on your knowledge of the Gilded Age and the industrial revolution, assess the validity of this statement.
(chapters 18-20), Examine and analyze Woodrow Wilson’s ideas about foreign policy.To what extent did Wilson put into practice his stated ideas?
(chapters 21-23), Describe how the Cold War was fought by each superpower. Be sure to discuss how both the United States and the Soviet Union believed that their social system was firmly based on principles of freedom and social justice.
(chapters 24-26), The Nixon-Khrushchev debates held in the setting of a suburban kitchen illustrated how freedom in America had come to mean economic abundance and consumer choices during the 1950s. How is this new conception of freedom a departure from Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms”?
(chapters 27-28), What did “freedom” mean for Americans in the early twenty-first century? Was America an “exceptional” nation? How so? Describe the range of freedoms people experienced, or perhaps did not experience. How would Americans describe their status at home and in the world by the end of the Obama presidency? Explain.
The Source for the chapters and these answers is Give me Liberty by An American History, by Eric Foner, Brief Vol. 2, 5E. But please feel free to use historical knowledge to spice up the writing.
Answer the questions the same as you would on an essay quiz.

Illustrate how the United States Constitution addressed the concerns of both the opponents and proponents of the document.

Summarize the article, Black, Frederick R., “The American Revolution as “Yardstick” in the Debates on the Constitution, 1787-1788, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 117(June 15,1973):162-185.
Sources required are listed in details. No outside sources permitted.
Be sure your summary includes the following components.

Identify the theme,focus of the article. How was the article organized and what materials were used to substantiate the author’s conclusions?
Identify the two primary opinions or ideologies addressed in the article by their common names.Select and identify one or two agents/individuals from each “camp” as representatives of the debate.
Describe how the Declaration of Independence embodies the Spirit of 1776 or the gauge of Revolutionary Spirit.
Illustrate how the United States Constitution addressed the concerns of both the opponents and proponents of the document.
You must substantiate the conclusions of your summary with no less than four and no more than six direct quotations.

Quotes may not exceed two sentences or lines.
All quotes and references must be cited using Turabian footnote citation format.
Direct quotations must be drawn from the following sources.
The Declaration of Independence, one of the six must originate from this source.
The United States Constitution, one of the six must originate from this source.
One additional scholarly source acquired through the Yavapai College Library.One of the six may originate from this required source.
No less than two and no more than four direct quotations must be taken from the article itself.
This essay must be a minimum of 1400 words but not exceed 1600. You will be assessed on both form and content. Follow all guidelines published for this course. Do not include a “cover page” or bibliography on your essay

Discuss where people get their news? What are some of the demographic differences that influence where people get their news?

Lesson Writing Assignments
Lesson 4 Writing Assignment
For this assignment, choose ONE of the writing prompts and write a minimum 300 word essay. For more detailed instructions, review the Instructions for Lesson Writing Assignments.
Read the Gallup report on attitudes towards third parties. How do Americans view third parties? Why is it so difficult for third party candidates to win in the United States? How would having more than two competitive political parties change American politics?
Review the Pew Research articles “U.S. trails most developed countries in voter turnout” and “Weekday elections set the U.S. apart from many other advanced democracies.” Specifically, how does voter turnout in the U.S. compare with voter turnout in other advanced democracies? What are some of the causes for the low voter turnout between the United States and other advanced democracies?What are the pros and cons of changing election day to a holiday or a weekend?
Look at Table 9.1 of AmGov and read the Pew Research article “News Use Across Social Media Platforms 2018.”Discuss where people get their news? What are some of the demographic differences that influence where people get their news? Where do you prefer to get your news (social media, print, television, radio) and why? Do you rely on only one news source? How do you judge the credibility of your news source(s)?

How should the government balance the tensions between privacy and national security concerns?

Lesson Writing Assignments
For this assignment, choose ONE of the writing prompts and write a minimum 300 word essay. For more detailed instructions, review the Instructions for Lesson Writing Assignments
Read the Pew Research article, “Americans feel the tensions between privacy and security concerns.”How should the government balance the tensions between privacy and national security concerns? Is the Constitution clear about potential conflicts between privacy and national security? How much privacy should Americans expect in an age where information about people is so readily available?
Chapter 6 briefly discusses judicial interpretivists and strict constructionists. For more discussion on the issue read “How does the Supreme Court decide what the Constitution means?” How does a strict constructionist (originalist) interpret the Constitution compared to a judicial interpretivist (non-originalist)? Do you think the Constitution should be interpreted literally or is it an evolving document that needs to be interpreted differently over time? Why?
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