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Assignment:

An essay comparing how two or three social groups fought for liberty, as they understood it, from the Civil War up to the Second World War. This can include African Americans, Native Americans, manual laborers, immigrants, women, middle-class reformers, politicians, or other groups or voting blocs that united around common interests. Use the textbook and lecture slides for historical context and incorporate four or more primary sources from Canvas (the ones that are indented in the modules) into your analysis.

Your essay should begin with an introduction explaining which groups you are comparing and what issues motivated them to become socially or politically active. In your essay, consider what conditions these groups were responding to and what concrete results their actions had (or didn't have). Make sure to provide specific examples from the readings to support your claims and be as specific as possible about the relevant chronology, causality, and geography (North, South, Midwest, urban, rural, or international).

Citations: Please cite the author or editor and page number of the sources like this: In her address to Congress, Carrie Chapman Catt echoed Woodrow Wilson's wartime commitment to make the world "safe for democracy" by arguing that supporting women's suffrage would allow America to "resume its world leadership in democracy" (Catt 116). If the source does not have an author, you can just use the title provided on Canvas like this (Mississippi Black Code 65).

• Foner, Give Me Liberty!, Chapter 22: Fighting for the Four Freedoms: World War II: 1941-1945
• FDR, "Four Freedoms" Speech (Jan. 6, 1941)