Discussion: Different approaches of the federal government
Discussion: Different approaches of the federal government
Using a minimum of 200 words, address the following:
Chapter 16 Writing Assignment #1
Discuss the different approaches of the federal government toward the Plains Indians.
Chapter 16 Writing Assignment #2
How did the notion of the freedom of contract create opportunities and constraints on liberty?
Chapter 17 Writing Assignment
Discuss the reasons why Americans were drawn to expand overseas in the late nineteenth century
Chapter 18 Writing Assignment
What were the origins and goals of the “new feminism”?
Chapter 19 Writing Assignment #1
Discuss the reasons and the outcome of American intervention in Mexico.
Chapter 19 Writing Assignment #2
Explain Woodrow Wilson’s vision for peace after World War I.
Chapter 20 Writing Assignment
What role did race play in the fundamentalist orientation of conservative Americans in the 1920s?
Chapter 21 Writing Assignment
How did leading voices on the left criticize the limitations of the New Deal?
How did Franklin D. Roosevelt change the meaning of liberalism during his presidency?
Chapter 22 Writing Assignment #1
How did women’s lives change during World War I?
Chapter 22 Writing Assignment #2
Why did World War II spur the growth of the civil rights movement?
Chapter 23 Writing Assignment
How did the Democratic Party’s embrace of civil rights shape the election of 1948?
How did the Cold War shape the struggle for civil rights?
Chapter 24 Writing Assignment
Explain the significance of suburbs for the development of the United States in the 1950s.
How did women experience postwar affluence?
Chapter 25 Writing Assignment
How did Lyndon B. Johnson make the Vietnam War his own?
Chapter 26 Writing Assignment
How did the U.S. economy end up suffering both from inflation and high unemployment in the 1970s?
Chapter 27 Writing Assignment
How did the United States get into the first Gulf War in 1991?
Chapter 28 Writing Assignment
Why did the United States go to war in Iraq?
What criticisms emerged over the American conduct of war in Iraq?
How was the West transformed economically and socially in this period? • Was the Gilded Age political system effective in meeting its goals? • How did the economic development of the Gilded Age affect American freedom? • How did reformers of the period approach the problems of an industrial society? A n immense crowd gathered in New York harbor on October 28, 1886, for the dedication of Liberty Enlightening the World, a fitting symbol for a nation now wholly free. The idea for the statue originated in 1865 with Édouard de Laboulaye, a French educator and the author of several books on the United States, as a response to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The statue, de Laboulaye hoped, would celebrate both the historic friendship between France and the United States and the triumph, through the Union’s victory in the Civil War, of American freedom. Measuring more than 150 feet from torch to toe and standing atop a huge pedestal, the edifice was the tallest man-made structure in the Western Hemisphere. It exceeded ★ Discussion: Different approaches of the federal government
603 225426_16_603-648_r2_as.indd 603 7/13/16 9:31 AM • CHRONOLOGY • 1872 Crédit Mobilier scandal 1873 Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner’s Gilded Age 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn 1877 Reconstruction ends Munn v. Illinois Great Railroad Strike 1879 Henry George’s Progress and Poverty 1883 Civil Service Act Railroads create time zones William Graham Sumner’s What Social Classes Owe to Each Other 1884 Elk v. Wilkins 1886 Haymarket affair Wabash v. Illinois Standard national railroad gauge 1887 Interstate Commerce Commission created Dawes Act 1888 Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act Jacob Riis’s How the Other Half Lives Massacre at Wounded Knee 1894 Henry Demarest Lloyd’s Wealth against Commonwealth 1895 United States v. E. C. Knight Co. in height, newspapers noted with pride, the Colossus of Rhodes, a wonder of the ancient world. In time, the Statue of Liberty, as it came to be called, would become Americans’ most revered national icon. For over a century it has stood as a symbol of freedom. The statue has offered welcome to millions of immigrants— the “huddled masses yearning to breathe free” celebrated in a poem by Emma Lazarus inscribed on its base in 1903. In the years since its dedication, the statue’s familiar image has been reproduced by folk artists in every conceivable medium and has been used by advertisers to promote everything from cigarettes and lawn mowers to war bonds. As its use by Chinese students demanding democracy in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 showed, it has become a powerful international symbol as well. The year of the statue’s dedication, 1886, also witnessed the “great upheaval,” a wave of strikes and labor protests that touched every part of the nation.
