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Discussion Post
I. How do the primary sources about the meatpacking industry (Upton Sinclair's The Jungle and the newspaper article about Teddy Roosevelt's response, both in the Week 4 Read folder) demonstrate the patterns of change that took place during the Progressive Era?
II. Analyze the primary source documents about Sedition and Eugene V. Debs. Read folder. (The documents regarding the Red Scare may also prove useful.) What do these sources tell us about free speech and patriotism during times of war in the United States? Get the instant assignment help.
III. According to Woodrow Wilson, why should the United States intervene in WWI? Conversely, why did some people, such as Senator La Follette or Eugene V. Debs, oppose American involvement in the conflict? (Use the primary source documents from week 5 to form your response.)
IV. The experience of African Americans in the late 1910s and 1920s included both a wave of racist hysteria and violence as well as new strategies for resistance, survival, and cultural production. Discuss this topic using an analysis of the following documents from the Week 6 Read folder: Marcus Garvey on the UNIA, Alain Locke on the "New Negro," Langston Hughes on the "Racial Mountain," and Claude McKay's "If We Must Die." What do these documents tell us about those new strategies?
V. How do Herbert Hoover ("Hoover's Opinion of FDR's New Deal") and Franklin D. Roosevelt ("FDR's Second Inaugural Address"). Read folder differ in their perspectives on the role of the federal government in times of crisis?