Thursday, March 10, 2016

Democratizing Twentieth Century America - Homework - Due - Monday, March 14

Please make sure you bring Gosse tomorrow!!!! 

Read Gosse introduction, pgs 1 - 23 


**Identify = Who or what is this? Why is this significant in the context of this unit? What are some details you can provide as evidence?

1 - What was the Old Left? How are the Old and New Lefts different?

2 - Select and discuss a quote that illustrates connections between the Civil Rights Movement and WWII.

3 - Select and discuss a quote that illustrates connections between the Civil Rights Movement and and the use of courts.

3 - Identify - Cold War Liberal

4 - What is de facto segregation?

5 - What were the goals of the Northern Civil Rights Movement?

6 - Identify: Malcolm X  

7 - What was covered by the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

8 - What was the Freedom Summer Project and what was its impact? 

9 - What was the Voting Rights Act and what key events led up to it? 

10 - What sparked the Free Speech Movement?

11 - Identify - Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

12 - Why were some Americans initially supportive of Castro?

13 - Discuss the goals and tactics of the early Gay Rights Movement

14 - Why did the liberal consensus fall apart in the late 1960s?

15 - Discuss the election of 1964.

16 - Why.how were some people radicalized by Vietnam?

17 - Identify: Eugene McCarthy

18 - What was the Black Power Movement and how did it differ from the Civil Rights Movement? Why did the Black Power Movement get underway when it did?

19 - Discuss connections between the Black Power and Women's Liberation Movements.

20 - Discuss the significance of international events in 1968.

21 - Identify: Richard Nixon 

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