1.What were the “culture wars” of the 1920s about?
2. How successful were the reforms of the New Deal?
3.What are the effects of WWII on American society?
4. What factors allow for the rise of McCarthyism? Why does McCarthyism fail?
5. What types of social reform did Eleanor Roosevelt support?
6. Why was conformity so important in the 1950s and why did some Americans rebel against this conformity?
7. What were the concerns of America’s youth in the 1960s? What accounts for their activism?
8. What are the key economic problems in the 1970s?
9. What were the significant pieces of civil rights legislation?
10. What are the major social issues of the 1980s?
11. How do the demographics of the U.S. change in the 1980s and 1990s and what does this diversity mean for American society and politics?
12. What connections do you see between the complaints of the Black Panther Movement and AIM? Do you see any connections between AIM’s complaints about the American government and Geronimo’s complaints?
