8 Discussion board questions 200 words each
Read “
The ‘Omaha Platform” of the People’s Party (1892)
” and using a minimum of 200 words (not including quotations) respond to the following questions. Make sure to reference specific passages from the document and/or textbook to support your discussion:
· According to the platform, what are the major issues facing the nation?
· How do the Populists propose to use the power of the government to correct these problems?
· What proposals in the platform eventually became a reality?
Read “
James D. Phelan, ‘Why the Chinese Should Be Excluded’ (1901)”
and using a minimum of 200 words (not including quotations) respond to the following questions. Make sure to reference specific passages from the document and/or textbook to support your discussion:
· According to the Mayor of San Francisco, what was the state of affairs in California prior to the exclusion of immigrants from China?
· How does the Mayor justify extending the exclusion of immigrants from China?
· How does the Mayor characterize “the Chinese?”
· Why do you suppose the original Exclusion Act had a ten-year limit?
· Does the language in this document resonate with contemporary attitudes toward immigrants? Why or why not?
Read
“Booker T. Washington & W.E.B. DuBois on Black Progress (1895, 1903)”
and using a minimum of 200 words (not including quotations) respond to the following questions. Make sure to reference specific passages from the document and/or textbook to support your discussion:
· According to Washington, how should African Americans respond to systemic racial discrimination?
· What does Washington mean when he says that “the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremest folly?”
· What does DuBois think of Washington’s plan to uplift African Americans?
· What, according to DuBois, has been the result of following Washington’s advice?
Read
“Huey P. Long, “Every Man a King” and “Share our Wealth” (1934)”
and using a minimum of 200 words (not including quotations) respond to the following questions. Make sure to reference specific passages from the document and/or textbook to support your discussion:
· What were the most radical aspects of Long’s plan?
· Did any of his ideas become reality?
· Upon whose law did Long base his ideas?
· What did Long predict would be the consequences if the nation failed to adopt a program such as his?
Read the
“Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (1945)”
and using a minimum of 200 words (not including quotations) respond to the following questions. Make sure to reference specific passages from the document and/or textbook to support your discussion:
· Just as the American Declaration of Independence listed grievances against the King of England, what grievances does this document list against the French?
· How did the Japanese occupation of Vietnam complicate Vietnamese attitudes toward the French?
· Why do the Vietnamese anticipate a favorable reaction from the international community, in particular the United States, toward their declaration of independence?
· Why do you suppose the Truman Administration was not supportive of this declaration?
Read
“NSC-68 (1950)”
and using a minimum of 200 words (not including quotations) respond to the following questions. Make sure to reference specific passages from the document and/or textbook to support your discussion:
· According to the document, what factors have altered the heretofore “historic distribution of power?”
· What major issues does the United States face at this point in the Cold War?
· What course(s) of action for the United States does this document recommend?
· How does this document represent the militarization of the policy of containment?
Read the
“National Organization for Women, ‘Statement of Purpose’ (1966)”
and using a minimum of 200 words (not including quotations) respond to the following questions. Make sure to reference specific passages from the document and/or textbook to support your discussion:
· According to the authors of the document—what justifications have been used to prevent women from enjoying equal opportunities and freedom of choice?
· What accounts for the disparity in earning power of women compared to men?
· What areas of the professions are most glaringly dominated by men?
· What is Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and why is it important to women?
· What specific recommendations does NOW present that will “enable women to enjoy true equality of opportunity and responsibility in society, without conflict with their responsibilities as mothers and homemakers?”
· What do the authors mean by calling for a “new image of women?”
Read
“Bill Clinton on Free Trade and Financial Deregulation (1993-2000)”
and using a minimum of 200 words (not including quotations) respond to the following questions. Make sure to reference specific passages from the document and/or textbook to support your discussion:
· According to Clinton, what will be the benefits of NAFTA and the projected dismantling of “trade barriers?”
· What contradictions are apparent in his argument for embracing the global economy?
· What is the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act designed to do?
· Who advocated deregulating the derivatives market, and what do these entities represent?
· In the longer run, did NAFTA along with the deregulation of financial markets produce the benefits that Clinton envisioned? Why or why not?
