Topic:
Analyze the two primary sources from either chapter 20, ” From Business Culture to Great Depression: The Twenties, 1920-1932,” or chapter 21, “The New Deal, 1932-1940,”
Paper details:
Write a two to three page (longer is fine) paper in which you analyze the two primary sources from either chapter 20, ” From Business Culture to Great Depression: The Twenties, 1920-1932,” or chapter 21, “The New Deal, 1932-1940,”
How to get a good grade: Analyze your two sources by placing them in the historical context of their time period. Discuss what was going on at the time that each source was written. Give examples from the chapter and the power point of what was going on at the time. Discuss how the source is connected to what was happening. Why do you think these sources were written? Be specific in your discussion and choose a quote or two from each source for greater support. Use the questions that Eric Foner includes with each set of sources to help focus your discussion.
Chapter 20 sources:
Lucian W. Parrish, “Speech in Congress on Immigration” (1921), and “Majority Opinion. Justice James C. McReynolds, in Meyers v. Nebraska “(1923).
Foner questions for chapter 20:
Why does Parrish consider continued immigration dangerous?
How does the decision in Meyers v. Nebraska expand the definition of liberty protected by the Fourteenth Amendment?
How do the two excerpts reflect deep divisions over the nature of American Society during the 1920s?
Chapter 21 sources:
Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Fireside Chat” (1934), and John Steinbeck, “The Harvest Gypsies: On The Road To The Grapes Of Wrath “(1938).
Foner questions for chapter 21:
What does Roosevelt mean by the difference between the definition of liberty that has existed in the past and his own “broader definition of liberty?”
According to Steinbeck, how do Depression-era migrant workers differ from those in earlier periods?
Do the migrant workers described by Steinbeck enjoy liberty as Roosevelt understands it?
TEXTBOOKS IS:
Foner, Eric, Give Me Liberty!, Volume II: From 1865; Seagull 6th edition (New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 2019)
