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Essay Prompt: The 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s were a turbulent time in United States history. These turbulent times were defined by international politics, the political climate, the struggle for gender equality, and the early push for civil rights. Choose one of these topics and trace its development throughout the early twentieth century:

1. international politics

2. political climate

3. struggle for gender equality

4. the early push for civil rights movement

Students are only expected to use both The American Yawp and relevant primary sources in their answers.

This essay is a thesis-driven essay, it should have an overall argument that is supported throughout the essay. This assignment will require you to define the theme and hand-pick the best examples from that theme to support your argument. As you are required to trace this theme through history, it will require writers to use examples prior to the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.

Due Date:

The rough draft of this essay is due on Tuesday, November 12 by 6 pm .

The final version of this essay is due on Tuesday, December 3 by 6 pm.

Learning Outcomes:

· Demonstrate college-level writing.

· A clear thesis

· Support an argument with sufficient support

· Clearly observable analysis and critical thought

· Observant to the conventions of written English

· Observant to the conventions of content, style, form and delivery within the field of history

· Analyze the interrelationship of economic, social, cultural, and political change.

· Display an understanding of Modern American History

The response papers require:

1. Title (Name; Course Name; Professors Name; Title for Essay)

2. 12-point Times New Roman Font

3. Double-Spaced

4. 4 – 6 pages

5. Chicago citations always come at the end of sentences.

a. Footnotes. .[footnoteRef:1].[footnoteRef:2].[footnoteRef:3].[footnoteRef:4] [1: Joseph Locke and Ben Wright, eds., “The American Yawp: A Massively Collaboratively Open U.S. History Textbook,” ##. http://www.americanyawp.com/.] [2: Locke and Wright, eds., “The American Yawp,” ##.] [3: A. Mitchell Palmer, “The Case Against the Reds,” Forum (1920): ##.] [4: Palmer, “The Case Against the Reds,” ##.]

b. Bibliography.

c. http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html