1) Throughout this course we have explored changes in the size and scope of the American Government, as well as of the expectations Americans had of their government. In an essay, describe those changes, the causes for change, and the ways those changes were brought about.

2) Americans have struggled with the definition of civil rights for all of their history. How have American attitudes towards rights changed? What are some of the different strategies different groups have employed to achieve greater rights, and have they been successful? Which methods were more effective, and which ones less effective?

You will be expected to compose an essay of at least 5 paragraphs, including an introduction and conclusion and 3 body paragraphs. Each body paragraph must contain at least 2 specific examples as evidence to support your argument, making 6 total pieces of evidence. These evidence should be from the textbook or from these terms:

Reconstruction

Amendments Freedman’s Bureau Sharecropping
Ku Klux Klan
1876 Centennial Fair Chinese Exclusion Act Late-19th Century

Immigration Railroad Strikes

(1870s-1890s) Bimetallism

People’s Party Gospel of Wealth Progressivism World War I

US Food Administration The Red Scare
18th Amendment Harlem Renaissance

Marcus Garvey
New Deal
Court Packing
World War II Japanese Internment Domino Theory/

Containment Mutually Assured

Destruction McCarthyism
Korean War
GI Bill of Rights
Brown vs. Topeka Board of

Education Montgomery Bus Boycotts Martin Luther King, Jr. SNCC
Nation of Islam
The Many Civil Rights

Movements

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Vietnam War Protests Vietnamization
Kent State Massacre The Silent Majority Religious Freedom (after

WW II) Detente

Richard Nixon
Stagflation
Iran Hostage Crisis
The Great Communicator /

Teflon President Gorbachev

Saddam Hussein Globalization
Bill Clinton Election of 2000 Al Queda

Bush Doctrine