Assignment

WWI and The Great Depression

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1. Examine the main idea that emerges from Chapter 14 of A People's History of the United States.

2. How did the Great Depression happen?

3. How did the New Deal contribute to the rise of the African American Civil Rights movement? 4. How was FDR’s plan fitting in to the established condition (control by the wealthy) rather than giving the power back to the people (according to Zinn)?  5. What were Hoovervilles and why were they constructed? 6. Why does Zinn include the section of Langston Hughes's poem "Let America Be America Again" in Chapter 15, of A People's History of the United States? 7. Incorporate these two questions into one answer. How does Zinn's view Roosevelt's New Deal, in chapter 15 of A People's History of the United States, differ from most histories' view? Most histories reflect the New Deal as a massive social experience and is seen as the greatest extent of liberal government policy. Is Zinn's view different?