Review Assignment #3

Homework Assignment: Gather the research to answer your group’s question and create a 5-8 minute power point presentation for the class. Include documents and images that would be relevant in the answer. (i.e. If you were answering a question about women and reform, you would use the Declaration of Sentiments and a Temperance cartoon)

1. To what extent did Reconstruction bring the Southern Negro the equality and freedom that slavery had denied them?


2. It is clear that all the lives that were lost in the American Civil War to insure a 'new birth of freedom' were in vain. By 1880, the South had defeated the weak Northern efforts in behalf of the freedmen, and had re-enslaved the Negro.
Assess the validity of this statement using the documents and your knowledge of U S History.

3. Discuss the "new immigrants" that came into the United States during the period 1890 to 1924. Who were the major groups, what were the changes in American immigration laws that effected them, and to what extent did they reshape American society?

4. The first two decades of the 20th Century are generally described as the Progressive Period. Using the documents and your knowledge of the time period 1895-1920, discuss the extent to which this period marked a clear social, political, and economic change in American history.

5. What were the social, economic, and political reactions to industrialization and urbanization in American from 1890 to 1920?

6. One of the principle aims of the Progressive Era was to check the advancing power of big business. How successful were they in achieving their goal by 1915?