American History
\nSinclair Book (The Jungle)<\/p>\n
1) Sketch the context for, define, and tell the significance\/after-effect of each, in terms of late-19th & early-20th-century American history & culture
\n-“embalmed beef”, “potato flour” & “patent medicines”
\n-Socialist Party (1901+)\/”wage slavery”
\n-Emergency Quota Act (1921) & National Origins Act (1924)<\/p>\n
2) Essay Question
\n-Why was Socialism considered a “radical” ideology and why didn’t it flourish in early 20th century America?
\n-Comparing ideologies of smaller vs. bigger government, describe the various shifts in popular views, between the 1890s and late 1930s, about how the federal government might protect workers & consumers from industry.<\/p>\n
Englehardt Book (The End of Victory culture)<\/p>\n
1)give the context for, define, and tell the significance\/after-effect of each of the following, in terms of 20th-century US culture\/history:
\n-Vietnamization (July 1969, or the “Nixon Doctrine” 1969-90)<\/p>\n
-U.S. invasion of Afghanistan (2001-14)<\/p>\n
-Wolfowitz (Bush II) Doctrine (June 2002)
\n2)Essay Question
\n-Compare & contrast the U.S. military action in, and U.S. domestic popular support of American intervention in Vietnam (1965-73) & Iraq (2003-11).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
American History Sinclair Book (The Jungle) 1) Sketch the context for, define, and tell the significance\/after-effect of each, in terms of late-19th & early-20th-century American history & culture -“embalmed beef”, “potato flour” & “patent medicines” -Socialist Party (1901+)\/”wage slavery” -Emergency Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}