Please read the chapters and review the PowerPoint files (available under course “Content” tab above) on America and the Great War (Chapter 22) – The Great Depression (Chapter 25). You may also find the supplementary (not required) audio and/or film lectures available under the course “Content” tab under “Supplementary Content” helpful in addressing the topic(s)/question(s). Next, select and view at least 3-5 of the following short documentary films and clearly use content from all 3-5 in your DB contribution. Here are the films: https://florida.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/amex29gw-soc-targeting/targeting-german-americans-the-great-war-american-experience/ https://florida.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/amex29gw-soc-africanamericans/the-great-war-african-americans-and-world-war-i/ https://florida.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/amex29gw-soc-dissent/crackdown-on-dissent-the-great-war-american-experience/ https://florida.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/amex29gw-soc-propaganda/wartime-propaganda-the-great-war-american-experience/ https://florida.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/amex29gw-soc-neutrality/world-war-i-and-american-neutrality-the-great-war-american-experience/ https://florida.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/amex29gw-soc-alicepaul/the-great-war-alice-paul-and-womens-suffrage-american-experience/ https://florida.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/wartown-video-9130/wartown-ken-burns-the-war/ https://florida.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/great-migration-new-jersey-video/new-jersey-then-and-now/ https://florida.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/great-migration-new-jersey-video/new-jersey-then-and-now/ https://florida.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/goons-prohibition-video-9148/the-goons-ken-burns-prohibition/ https://florida.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/immigrant-ethnic-prohibition-video-9084/america-a-multi-ethnic-nation-ken-burns-prohibition/ https://florida.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/flappers-speakeasies-ken-burns-prohibition/ken-burns-prohibition/ https://florida.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/amex32tv-soc-dividedtactics/divided-tactics-in-pursuit-of-the-nineteenth-amendment-the-vote/ org/resource/rr10.socst.us.prosp.depress/the-great-depression/” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>https://florida.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/rr10.socst.us.prosp.depress/the-great-depression/ https://florida.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/the-great-depression-fdr-first-fireside-chat-video/ken-burns-the-roosevelts/ https://florida.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/b9c3ba0b-4a7a-4ef6-831c-61b13cccabc6/david-kennedy-on-the-great-depression-american-creed/ Finally, address one of the following questions/topics in your DB comments: Discuss several (at least 3) of the major socio-economic consequences of the Great War at home for the people of the United States and how they changed the country. Please support your argument with specific historical facts/details from the textbook and the assigned films. What were several of the major socio-cultural tensions in the United States during the Roaring and Reactionary Twenties? The list of potential topics is extensive. For example, during this period there was the 18th Amendment (prohibition/leading to a rise in organized crime), the 19th Amendment (Women’s Suffrage), a rise in nativism, the country’s first immigration laws, a rise in religious fundamentalism, the Scopes “Monkey” Trial, and an emerging consumer and “roaring” party culture. Please support your argument with specific historical facts/details from the textbook and assigned films. Quickly describe the conditions caused by The Great Depression and the policies attempted by Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt to ameliorate the crisis. In your view were these policies effective (and why or why not)? What were the most important U.S. government programs/policies/agencies that resulted from the Depression. has to be at least 8 sentences textbook is America: a Narrative history david shu volume 2
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