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 * Essay 1** -- Analyze the ways in which the Great Depression altered the American social fabric in the 1930s.


 * Essay 2** -- To what extent and why did the United States adopt an isolationist policy in the 1920s and 1930s?


 * Essay 3** -- In what ways did economic conditions and developments in the arts and entertainment help create the reputation of the 1920s as the Roaring Twenties?


 * Essay 4** -- Describe and account for the rise of nativism in American society from 1900 to 1930. [Unit 7]


 * Essay 5** -- How successful were the programs of the New Deal in solving the problems of the Great Depression? Assess with respect to each of the following: relief, recovery, reform.


 * Essay 6** -- Compare and contrast the programs and policies designed by reformers of the Progressive era to those designed by reformers of the New Deal period. Confine your answer to programs and policies that addressed the needs of those living in poverty.


 * Essay 7** -- Describe the patterns of immigration in each of the following periods: 1820 to 1860, 1880 to 1924, 1965 to 2000. Compare and contrast the responses of Americans to immigrants in these periods. [Units 4 and 10]


 * Essay 8** -- Historians have argued that Progressive reform lost momentum in the 1920s. Evaluate this statement with respect to each of the following: regulation of business, labor, immigrants. [Unit 7]


 * Essay 9** -- How did each of the following help shape American national culture in the 1920s: advertising, entertainment, mass production?


 * Essay 10** -- Analyze the home-front experiences of each of the following groups during the Second World War: African Americans, Japanese Americans, Jewish Americans, Mexican Americans.


 * Essay 11** -- How and for what reasons did United States foreign policy change between 1920 and 1941?


 * Essay 12** -- "The economic policies of the federal government from 1921 to 1929 were responsible for the nation's depression of the 1930s." Assess the validity of this generalization.


 * Essay 13** -- Compare and contrast the ways that many Americans expressed their opposition to immigrants in the 1840s-1850s with the ways that many Americans expressed their opposition to immigrants in the 1910s-1920s. [Unit 4]


 * Essay 14** -- Identify each of the following New Deal measures and analyze the ways in which each of them attempted to fashion a more stable economy and a more equitable society: Agricultural Adjustment Act, Securities and Exchange Commission, Wagner National Labor Relations Act, Social Security Act.


 * Essay 15** -- Presidential elections between 1928 and 1948 revealed major shifts in political party loyalties. Analyze both the reasons for these changes and their consequences during this period. [Unit 9]


 * Essay 16** -- President Franklin Roosevelt is commonly thought of as a liberal and President Herbert Hoover as a conservative. To what extent are these characterizations valid?


 * Essay 17** -- Evaluate the effects of the Great Depression and Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration on the lives of farmers and factory workers before the Second World War.