Students,
The following questions should be answered by Thursday, April 17, 2014. Students, essay questions should be
answered in your own words by summarizing, paraphrasing, and/or analyzing
content information. You should use the textbook or internet as a resource but not to copy and
paste or write in someone else words. Content information should be accurate
and based on informational readings and text.Students are to select one (1)
question to answer in two detailed paragraphs and state a thesis sentence based
on your argument to be explained (Thesis statement should be in the 1st
paragraph). Grammatical errors should be reviewed and corrected before
submitting
your essays questions. The essay is worth 80 points total.
Extension
Assignment- Students should comment on at least two of their classmates’ essays
by Monday, April 21, 2014, 12:00a.m. Your comments should be at least 2-3
sentences in length. The comment should be a critical evaluation of the essay and
explain whether you agree with the argument or disagree. This assignment will
allow students to become peer supporters in this AP US History class and help
critic the writings of their classmates. This assignment is worth 20 points (10
points per comment). Your overall grade will come from Mrs.
Ladd.
Select one of the following questions:
1. Discuss with respect to TWO of the following, the increase in social conflict during the economic prosperity of the 1920s:
A. Religion
B. Ku Klux Klan
C. Prohibition
D. Nativism
2. "Economic growth and improved standard of living in the 1920s benefited only a minority of the American people." Argue either for or against the validity of this interpretation.
1. Discuss with respect to TWO of the following, the increase in social conflict during the economic prosperity of the 1920s:
ReplyDeleteB. Ku Klux Klan
C. Prohibition
Ku Klux Klan:In 1915, the second Klan was founded in Atlanta, Georgia. Starting in 1921, it adopted a modern business system of recruiting and grew rapidly nationwide at a time of prosperity. Reflecting the social tensions of urban industrialization and vastly increased immigration, its membership grew most rapidly in cities, and spread out of the South to the Midwest and West. The second KKK preached "One Hundred Percent Americanism" and demanded the purification of politics, calling for strict morality and better enforcement of prohibition. Its official rhetoric focused on the threat of the Catholic Church, using anti-Catholicism and nativism. Its appeal was directed exclusively at white Protestants. Some local groups took part in attacks on private houses and carried out other violent activities. The violent episodes were generally in the South.
Prohibition: During Prohibition, the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal. Prohibition was supposed to lower crime and corruption, reduce social problems, lower taxes needed to support prisons and poorhouses, and improve health and hygiene in America. Instead, Alcohol became more dangerous to consume; organized crime blossomed; courts and prisons systems became overloaded; and endemic corruption of police and public officials occurred.
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DeleteDiscuss with respect to TWO of the following, the increase in social conflict during the economic prosperity of the 1920s...
ReplyDeleteKKK: In 1915 William Simmons founded the twentieth century version of the KKK after viewing a film ,Birth of Nations, the new Klan was not only anti0 black but anti-jewish ,anti-foreign, and anti-Catholic .Basically everyone that wasn't white. The Klan actually became a respected part of the Democratic party and reached its political powers in the 1920s .Member reached nearly 4.5 million people.
Prohibition: Prohibition was a nationwide ban on the sale ,production , importation ,and transportation of alcoholic beverages that remained from 1920 to 1933 .Prohibition supporters expected American to look for new ways to entertain themselves without alcohol. The overall initial economic effects of prohibition were largely negative to the United States .
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Delete1. Discuss with respect to TWO of the following, the increase in social conflict during the economic prosperity of the 1920s:
ReplyDeleteKu Klux Klan
Nativism
The Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1866 by ex-Confederate soldiers and other Southerners opposed to Reconstruction after the Civil War. In the waning years of Reconstruction the Klan disbanded.Their message struck a cord, and membership in the Klan ballooned in the 1920s. By the middle of the decade, estimates for national membership in this secret organization ranged from three million to as high as eight million Klansmen. And membership was not limited to the poor and uneducated on society's fringes. Mainstream, middle-class Americans donned the white robes of the Klan too. Doctors, lawyers and ministers became loyal supporters of the KKK. In Ohio alone their ranks surged to 300,000. Even northeastern states were not immune. In Pennsylvania, membership reached 200,000.
By definition nativism means the policy of protecting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants. In America, the term nativism was defined as protecting the interests of native-born Americans, especially if of Anglo-Saxon extraction, and that they are the ones who have superior rights to the "foreign-born". In the 1920s especially, they were high restrictive of Southern and Eastern Europeans immigrating over to the United States. Immigrants were not only seen as undesirable to native-born Americans, but were also seen as stealing natives' jobs and threating their "peaceful way of living." Nativists were also bothered by many immigrants' foreign culture and were fearful that their ways of life as well as language would replace what they had lived with for generations.Examples of nativism: The Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, and the emergence of the Ku Klux Klan once again who not only targeted blacks, but also the Jewish and Catholics.
Discuss with respect to TWO of the following, the increase in social conflict during the economic prosperity of the 1920s Prohibition and Nativism
ReplyDeleteNativism was a strong contributing factor to why the Ku Klux Klan saw a resurgence during the 1920s. Immigration, following the end of World War I, dramatically increased. These immigrants were mostly Catholics and Jews from eastern and southern Europe. Because of this increased immigration, competition for jobs ensued, causing natives of the country to resent immigrants all together.
Prohibition was a national riddance of transportation, distribution,and manufacturing of alcohol. Prohibition was enforced to reduce drunkenness, petty crime, wife abuse, and corrupt saloon-politics. Instead it brought upon organized crimes. People such as Al Capone, John Dillinger, and Bonnie & Clyde were some of the headliners in this time. Jobs were scarce and people needed to provide for their families, so they resorted to bootlegging.
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Discuss with respect to TWO of the following, the increase in social conflict during the economic prosperity of the 1920s:
A. Religion
B. Ku Klux Klan
C. Prohibition
D. Nativism
First something that increases in social conflict during the economic prosperity of the 1920swas nativism. Nativism is the political position of demanding a favored status for certain established inhabitants of a nation as compared to claims of newcomers or immigrants. Nativism typically means opposition to immigration and support of efforts to lower the political or legal status of specific ethnic or cultural groups because the groups are considered hostile or alien to the natural culture, and assumptions that they cannot be assimilated.
Second, was Prohibition. Prohibition was a period of nearly fourteen years of U.S. history in which the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor was made illegal. There were many bloody fights to fight against prohibition ending many lives. It led to the first and only time an Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was repealed.
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ReplyDelete2. "Economic growth and improved standard of living in the 1920s benefited only a minority of the American people." Argue either for or against the validity of this interpretation.
ReplyDeleteDuring the 1920s in American an economic advancement actually ended up profiting many people, not just a small minority of people. The economy was doing well and showed due to the way that may people in America were living. Unemployment was low which meant that production was doing well, people were able to live well because they were getting paid, the standard of living for many Americans overall began to raise during the 1920s. Homes were better fitted for families to live in which meant things like electricity and plumbing being provided in a lot of homes. On top of people individually doing well, businesses were doing good, thriving. The use of electricity and oil was also on a rise and helping to contribute to productivity, which provided people with jobs, which thus provided people with money and stability in order to achieve a higher standard of living. Thus, the 1920s' economic growth actually proves to have been beneficial to really most Americans during this time.
ReplyDelete1.Discuss with respect to TWO of the following, the increase in social conflict during the economic prosperity of the 1920s:
B. Ku Klux Klan
C. Prohibition
During the Reconstruction the first KKK was formed and they target only African-Americans. The first KKK died out some years after the Civil War.A few years later the second KKK was formed in the 1915’s and they basically target not only blacks, but Jews , immigrants, and other people who did not have the same ethnic background as those of the KKK members. This was one of the major social conflict the U.S. faced. This new KKK was growing mighty fast, they had members in almost every state. They almost had 100,000-300,000 members total.
Prohibition was the banishment of alcohol. Alcohol caused many males to do stupid actions, since males were drinking alcohol so much, the drug would affect their minds leading to lose of money in their jobs. The effect of alcohol lead to abusing their wives, stealing,and sometimes murder. Prohibition banned the producing, selling, importing, and transporting of alcohol to any other state or nation across sea’s.