Ch. 15: Self Help in Hard Times; The 1920s & 1930s; Zinn

Hi Apush,

Well... here is week 2 - Per school district and Freire guidelines, this will be totally optional. I hope you find some time to fit it in! Also, just an FYI that at some point, I will add the outstanding work from before we closed...

Please read the following chapter and answer the Q's! I added 10 JIC your really bored!

LINK TO READING: Ch. 15: Self Help in Hard Times

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1. Why did the Seattle general strike end after five days and what did the Seattle general strike symbolize to the business and government elite?

2. Why were there so many strikes after the end of World War I?

3. Why is the depiction of the 1920s as prosperous and “roaring” a misleading one?

4. Why might working class women not celebrate the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment?

5. Why did mill owners move their factories to the South in the 1920s?

6. What percentage of the workforce was laid off during the Great Depression? What happened to these workers?

7. What evidence does Zinn use to support his argument that the New Deal legislation was intended “to reorganize capitalism in such a way as to overcome the crisis and stabilize the system; also, to head off the alarming growth of spontaneous rebellion. . . .”

8. “The grave danger of the situation is that it will get completely out of the hands of the leaders.” To whom was this possibility so dangerous, and why?

9. Did WWII function to weaken labor’s strength in the same was the WWI did?

10. What is Langston Hughes’s argument in the section of his poem “Let America Be America Again,” quoted by Zinn?









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