Revised 11/2009
(To Turn into Questions)
Financial Crises
New Deal programs, Teddy Roosevelt & trustbusting, Teapot Dome Scandal,
Stock Market Crash of 1929 (preventable of inevitable), Social Security Act
(1935)
Immigration Policy
Immigration restriction movements 1890-1930
Race Issues
Jim Crow, KKK, Election of 1928 (did cultural bias or economic issues determine its outcome?), FDR's policies toward blacks
US-Mexico Relationship
Monroe Doctrine, Roosevelt Corollary , FDR's Good Neighbor Policy
Fair Trials and the Media
Lindbergh, Sacco & Vanzetti, Scopes, Leopold & Loeb, Scottsboro Boys
Media Influence
Spanish-American War, Lusitania , muckrakers
"Just War"
Spanish-American War
Welfare
New Deal, Hull House
Minority Rights
Harlem Renaissance, Early NAACP (1911-1945), The Eugenics Movement, minorities in armed services in WWII, Harlem Hellfighers (WWI)
Media and War
Sinking of the Maine , Spanish-American War, entry into WWI, WWII home front
Media and Race
Chicago Race Riots, Zoot Suit Riots, lynchings
Legalization of Illegal Substances
Prohibition, Temperance movement, Billy Sunday

Religion's Place in Politics
Fundamentalism, Billy Sunday, Temperance movement, Civil Rights preachers,
Scopes Trial, faith-based initiatives
The Glass Ceiling / Women's Rights
19th Amendment, women in the 1920s, biographies, women in 1930s, women in
WWII home front, Eleanor Roosevelt
Foreign Born Citizens During War Time
Japanese American internment during WWII, German-Americans in WWII, Pearl
Harbor, post-9/11
"Dangers" of Socialism and Communism
Eugene V. Debs, Red Scare (1920s), Haymarket, US Communist Party
Unions
IWW, Chicago Trial (1917), American Federation of Labor , sit-down strikes
US Influence on Regime Change
Panama Canal, Roosevelt Corollary, US in Dominican Republic, Hawaii
Hate Speech / First Amendment
KKK, internet
Prejudice
American response to the Holocaust, American antisemitism, minorities in armed services in WWII, Japanese American internment during WWII
Atomic weapons, biological weapons, and chemical weapons and their use or disuse
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Popular music as a reflection in contemporary social conditions
Post-WWI, Great Depression or WWII.
Religious Fundamentalism
Fundamentalist Movement, Scopes Trial, Creationism versus Darwin's theory of evolution, Intelligent Design
Protest
Bonus Expeditionary Force of1932 (entitled veterans or dangerous radicals?), race riots in the first half of the 20th century (St. Louis 1917, Chicago 1919,
Harlem 1935, Detroit 1943, Zoot Suits 1943)

Popular Culture
Early Motion Picture Industry, Fashion and First Ladies
American Foreign Policy for power or peace
Phillipines (1941), WWI, Panama Canal, US in WWII, Lusitania , Treaty of
Versailles, Wilson's Fourteen Points, Good Neighbor Policy, Potsdam
Conference, Yalta Conference, Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928)
Presidential Power
FDR's Supreme Court Plan, Executive Order 9066, Tonkin Gulf Resolution, post-
9/11, trustbusting, New Deal
Sports
Black Sox Scandal, Jack Johnson (race in sports), Jesse Owens (politics and sports), Red Grange, Jackie Robinson (decline of Afr-Am in sport), professionalization of youth sports, business of sports
American Icons
An icon is defined as an "important and enduring symbol." The following people and things have been labeled American icons. Why (or why not) do they deserve to be called American icons?
Women: a. Margaret Sanger b. Jane Addams c. Margaret Mead d. Mary McLeod Bethune e. Lillian Wald f. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Artists: g. Frances Perkins h. Clara Barton i. Jeannette Rankin j. Dr. Alice Paul k. Emma Goldman a. Paul Robeson b. Martha Graham c. Marian Anderson d. Billie Holiday
Authors: a. Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens)
1835-1910 b. Kate Chopin 1851-1904 c. Stephen Crane 1871-1900 e. Josephine Baker f. D.W. Griffith g. Charlie Chaplin d. Sinclair Lewis 1885-1951 e. Edgar Lee Masters 1868-1950 f. Willa Cather 1873-1947 g. Sherwood Anderson 1876-1941

h. Katherine Anne Porter 1890-1980 i. F. Scott Fitzgerald 1896-1940 j. Ernest Hemingway 1899-1961 k. William Faulkner 1897-1962 l. John Steinbeck 1902-1968 m. Eudora Welty 1909-2001 n. Robert Frost 1874-1963 o. Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892-1950 p. Sara Teasdale 1884-1933 q. James Thurber 1894-1961
Athletes: a. Bobby Jones b. Babe Ruth r. Jack London 1876-1914 s. W.E.B. DuBois 1868-1963 t. Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872-1906 u. Richard Wright 1908-1960 v. Langston Hughes 1902-1967 w. Jean Toomer 1894-1967 x. Countee Cullen 1903-1946 y. James W. Johnson 1871-1938 z. Zora Neale Hurston 1891-1960