Please let me know if you are interested, it will be the same as last week I need to turn in part one and two on the 22nd and do not need part 3 until the 25th thanks for all of your help already your work has been perfect 🙂Â
Part
1 The Twenties
Background:
When World War I ended in 1918, Americans welcomed what they hoped
would be a return to normalcy. The decades that followed, however,
are ones which would rarely be described as normal in comparison to
what came before or after. After World War I ended and through the
1920s, a struggle ensued within the American nation regarding how
best to define the nation’s essential character, as groups like the
revived Ku Klux Klan fought a rearguard action to define nationhood
solely in terms of white skin and Protestant religion against
secularists, Catholics, flappers, “New Negroes,” and others who
challenged the traditional order. Immediately thereafter, the New
Deal implemented in response to the Great Depression revolutionized
the role of the federal government in lives of the American people,
in ways that many Americans believed violated the basic tenets of the
Constitution—and others believed were not radical enough. Taken
together, the decades from 1920 to 1940 may have transformed the
American nation more than any other comparable time period.
Required
sources:
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Credibility:
Critical Thinking in the Films on Demand database in the Ashford
University Library
Primary
sources:
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Should
a Catholic Be President?: A Contemporary View of the 1928 Election -
“Shut
the Door”: A Senator Speaks for Immigration Restriction
Recommended
sources:
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The
Twenties in
the Films on Demand database. -
Proletarians
of the North: A History of Mexican Industrial Workers in Detroit
and the Midwest, 1917-1933.
Pick
an event from World War I through the 1920s and a corresponding
primary source* that you can use in your Final Paper. Use
the Credibility:
Critical Thinking video
and the Library of Congress primary source analysis tool to help you
as you think about the primary source. Explain in at least 250
wordsÂ
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Why
you think the event was important and how it relates to your Final
Paper topic. -
What
the primary source you chose tells you about this topic. -
What
it does not tell you.
*Note:
Remember that a primary source is an artifact or document created at
the time of an event or by someone who personally witnessed the
event. You may choose a primary source from this list or you may
find one on your own. Please view the Writing
Center’s material
on primary sources.
Your
initial post should be at least 250 words in length. Support your
claims with examples from the required material(s) and/or other
scholarly resources, and properly cite any references. Your
references and citations must be formatted according to APA style as
outlined by the Writing Center. Respond to at least two of
your classmates’ posts by Day 7. Each response should be at least
100 words.
Part
2 Depression
and Mobilization
Background:
The Great Depression and World War II represented tumultuous years
for Americans. From the widespread and appalling poverty of the
Great Depression to the horror and excitement of World War II,
Americans were forced to work together for the good of each other
and the nation. The experiences of these years, both the good and
the bad, forever changed the Americans who lived through
them.Â
Required Sources: Choose one of the chapters from
the Ashford University Library
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A
Taste of Freedom. A
Little Taste of Freedom: The Black Freedom Struggle in Claiborne
County, Mississippi. -
Honor
and humiliation. Hard
times: An oral history of the great depression -
French
Carpenter Clark. Women’s
Diaries and Letters of the South: Country Women Cope with Hard
Times: A Collection of Oral Histories.Â
Recommended
Source
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WWII:
Breadlines to boomtimes in
Films on Demand database.
Based
on the oral history that you read and your textbook, consider the
changes that the United States went through from the Great
Depression through World War II. In your post, explain:
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At
least three causes of the Great Depression and the New Deal
responses to them. -
How
the societal changes of this period affected individual Americans.
Provide at least one example from the oral history that you read to
support your points.
Your
initial post should be at least 250 words in length. Support your
claims with examples from the required material(s) and/or other
scholarly resources, and properly cite any references. Your
references and citations must be formatted according to APA style as
outlined by the Ashford Writing Center. Respond to at least
two of your classmates’ posts by Day 7. Each response should be at
least 100 words.
Part
3
Final
Paper Preparation
This
assignment will prepare you for the Final Paper by initiating the
research process and helping you map out specific events and
developments which you will explore in depth in your paper. Review
the instructions for the Final Paper laid out in Week Five before
beginning this project. Note that for the Final Paper you will need
to discuss at least six specific events or developments related to
your chosen topic
For this assignment, you will choose a
specific group (Native Americans, African Americans, women, or
immigrants) and six (or more) related events and developments that
affected their lives. Three of these events/developments must be from
the years 1865-1920 and three of these events must from the years
1920-present. You will then find at least two primary sources and
four other sources for a total of six sources in addition to your
textbook. A maximum of two of your sources can be videos. Any sources
that are not primary sources or videos must be scholarly sources from
the Ashford University Library.Â
Please remember that
primary sources are documents or artifacts that were created at the
time of a historical event or by someone who personally experienced a
historical event. Primary sources can be newspaper or magazine
articles, books, letters, speeches, photographs, oral histories,
paintings, or any other record of a historical event.Â
For
this assignment:
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State
your thesis.* -
Write
one page identifying and explaining the events that you plan to
discuss in your Final Paper. -
Create
an annotated bibliography with a short (one to two paragraphs)
annotation for each source.** -
You
must use at least six sources other than the textbook to support
your claims. -
You
must use at least two primary sources. -
You
may use no more than two videos.-
Any
source that is not a primary source or a video must be a scholarly
secondary source from the Ashford University Library.
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Properly
cite your sources within the text of your paper and on the
references page. -
Be
three pages in length and formatted according to APA style as
outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
*Thesis
statement: Your thesis should be a one- or two-sentence summary of
the main conclusions that you drew while researching your topic and
that you will support in your paper by constructing a logical
argument based on evidence (sources). Please use the Ashford
Writing Center’s thesis generator when
creating your thesis.Â
**Annotated Bibliography: To
create an annotated bibliography, list each source in full APA
reference format. Then, beneath each source write a one- or
two-paragraph explanation of the important information in the source
and how you plan to use it in your paper. The annotations must be in
your own words. It is not acceptable to copy and paste the abstract
or any other text. You must have annotations for all six sources. Use
the Ashford University Writing Center’s Sample
Annotated Bibliography to
help you create your bibliography.
The paper must be three
pages in length and formatted according to APA style. For information
regarding APA, including samples and tutorials, visit the Ashford
Writing Center.
Please
notice that you have been provided with several primary and secondary
sources in the required reading and recommended reading sections for
each week. Feel free to use these sources when constructing your
assignment. Please visit the Academic Research section on your Course
Home page (accessible through the Student Responsibilities and
Policies tab on the left navigation toolbar) to review what types of
materials are not acceptable for academic, university level research.