Mini-Investigation Research

Did the unequal distribution of wealth affect U.S. voter participation?


1) Vote
ITEM 1: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0877659.html
ITEM 2: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0763629.html

2) Family Income:
ITEM 3: http://www.questia.com/library/book/changes-in-income-distribution-during-the-great-depression-by-horst-mendershausen.jsp

3) U.S. GDP
ITEM 4: http://www.economics-charts.com/gdp/gdp-1929-2004.html
ITEM 5: http://www.housingbubblebust.com/GDP/Depression.html
ITEM 6: http://bea.gov/national/index.htm#gdp

Correction: Step 2, 3

Step 2:

• Did the voter turnout decrease during the 1930s compare to before the Great Depression?
• Statistic on family income during and after the Great Depression
• Statistic on the G.D.P in United State during the 1930s
• Who were the extreme associations that went against U.S. democratic government that ran in elections?

Step 3:

• Database (Statistic of the United States and Federal Election Commission)
• Book (published by National Bureau Economic Research)
• Charts (Bureau of Economic Analysis)
• History Alive! / News articles (propaganda)

Step 1,2,3

Step 1: (Approved)
Did the unequal distribution of wealth affect U.S. voter participation?

Step 2:

• Did the vote count decrease during the 1930s?
  
• Statistic on family income during and after the Great Depression
• Statistic on the G.D.P. in United State
• Who are the extreme associations that go against U.S. democratic government that ran in elections?
• What affect do the extreme associations create in the society to further encourage people to go against a democratic society?

Step 3:

Type of source:

• Database/ Encyclopedia/ Internet
  
• Database
• Encyclopedia/ Internet
  
• History Alive!/Internet
• Internet/ Encyclopedia/ History Alive!

* Sources follow Step 2 sequence

RP: Question

How does the unequal distribution of wealth add on to the economic challenges to U.S. democracy during the Great Depreesion?

Chapter 32.2: Main Point Highlights

The main points of Chapter 32.2 are that after 1929, unemployment affected every side of society. This meant that no matter which status of society, the economy corruption made everyone divested. Men were not able to feed their families and everyone was living with an income that supports nothing more than living or, in other word, staying alive. This sham made the suicide rate increased. Furthermore, people did not have enough money to purchase. This means that things are becoming less valuable because products had to decrease their value so that people could consume. People also borrowed more money to want to increase their income. Nevertheless, this created a negative affect for the economy. The economy just kept dropping when people with loans could not pay back their loans. In conclusion, the economy had no chance to recover because it was in a cycle of debts. And I’m running out of time, its 9:48! I havnt double check!

Compare and Contrast: Correction

In History Alive, Howard Zinn and Schweikert's writting one of the most important social issues in the U.S. in the 1920’s was anti-immigration. The large number of immigrants in the United State had created ethnic conflicts. For example a Jewish factory manager, Leo Frank was lynched by the Ku Klux Klan in 1915 for a crime he maybe committed. Furthermore, in Howard Zinn’s writing, he agreed with the revival of KKK and said that even the NACCP, association that was suppose to help the immigrants, had no authority when facing the mob violence and ethnic hatred. On the other hand, Larry Schweikart agreed with the existence of the KKK, but said that it was not effective as History Alive and Zinn described. He stated that people should not have to worry about the KKK and its revival because as he mentioned, “Ku Klux Klansmen…organization had plummeted in membership since the 1920s”

Asides from the disagreement, in all three documents they all agree with the existance of liberal association that tried to help secure immigrant's rights. In History Alive, it mentioned the liberal group, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), who are founded to protect the freedom of speech. They fought back to protect immigrants from being deported and defended the right of trade union also mentioned that the ACLU became one of the leading role in opposing censorship. In Zinn’s writing, he brought up the NAACP, who were founded to protect abused rights, but he said that they were ineffective in releasing the tension of the violence and prejudice towards immigrants. In Schweikert’s writing he stated that although organizations like the ACLU and NAACP existed, but they were only appeared to be helping an was secretly agreeing with the majority of the society that immigrants are overcrowding the United States. As he mentioned, “Those northern white elites would enthusiastically and aggressively support the fight for civil rights in the South while carefully segregating their own children at all-white private schools.”

Moreover, in three of the documents, History Alive and Howard Zinn agreed that the government are invovled in the anti-immigration acts, but Schweikerts made no opinion. History Alive pointed out that the United State government was sides with the nativist. For example, the quota system, it was used to limit the number of immigrants from each country. By 1924, the quota was reduced to “2 percent of a country’s resident in the United States in 1890.” In Zinn’s writing he gave statistic that showed immigrants are limited severely, this includes “ No African country could send more than 100 people; 100 was the limit for China, for Bulgaria, for Palestine.” Nevertheless, Schweikert kept silence with the stand of the government. He did not mention anything about government being on the nativist’s nor the liberal’s sides.

Compare and Contrast Essay

In History Alive one of the most important social issues in the U.S. in the 1920’s was anti-immigration. The large number of immigrants in the United State had created ethnic conflicts. For example a Jewish factory manager, Leo Frank was lynched by the Ku Klux Klan in 1915 for a crime he maybe committed. Furthermore, in Howard Zinn’s writing, he agreed with the revival of KKK and said that even the NACCP, association that was suppose to help the immigrants, had no authority when facing the mob violence and ethnic hatred. On the other hand, Larry Schweikart agreed with the existence of the KKK, but said that it was not effective as History Alive and Zinn described. He stated that people should not have to worry about the KKK and its revival because as he mentioned, “Ku Klux Klansmen…organization had plummeted in membership since the 1920s”
Asides from the disagreement, History Alive also mentioned the liberal group, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), who are founded to protect the freedom of speech. They fought back to protect immigrants from being deported and defended the right of trade union. It mentioned the ACLU as one of the leading role in opposing censorship. In Zinn’s writing, he also agreed that there were association that was founded to protect the immigrant’s right. For example, NAACP, but he said that they were ineffective in releasing the tension of the violence and prejudice towards immigrants. In Schweikert’s writing he did not believe that organizations like the ACLU and NAACP only appeared to be helping but was secretly agreeing with the majority of the society that immigrants are overcrowding the United States. As he mentioned, “Those northern white elites would enthusiastically and aggressively support the fight for civil rights in the South while carefully segregating their own children at all-white private schools.”
Moreover, in History Alive, it agreed that the United State government was sides with the nativist and agreed on anti-immigration. For example, the quota system, it was used to limit the number of immigrants from each country. By 1924, the quota was reduced to “2 percent of a country’s resident in the United States in 1890.” In Zinn’s writing he gave statistic that showed immigrants are limited severely, this includes “ No African country could send more than 100 people; 100 was the limit for China, for Bulgaria, for Palestine.” Nevertheless, Schweikert kept silence with the stand of the government. He did not mention anything about government being on the nativist’s nor the liberal’s sides.

Paper 1, Question 2 Style Respond

Question: Compare and Contrast the views expressed about German warfare in World War I from the two documents.
Source A: Captain von Spiegel's Account
Source B: Zimmerman Telegram

In the Zimmerman Telegram, Germany was afraid to go to war with America. They wanted America to stay out of the war. Germany recogized that America was in an advance position, where their methods of war and weapons were more developed. Therefore, they wanted the United State to remain nuetral. Neverthelast, in Captain von Speigel's Account he intended that the war had to be fought, and they should not be backing off. He was not afraid of what comes after the unrestricted submarin warfare, or the haphazard firing and killings.

Another cotradiction between the two documents would be the tone. Captian von Spiegel's Acount showed a sense of involvment and compassion towards the war. Von Spiegel mentioned about the horses used as England's fighting power and he sympathies them." 'Oh heavens, horses! What a pity, those lovely beasts!' 'But it cannot be helped,' I went on thinking.' His care and cosideration towards the horse defined his character. He did not gain pleasure from the war or the sufferings. On the other hand, The Zimmerman Telegram showed little compassion or feelings toward the sacrificed lives. Instead, they focused fully on gaining their victory and power. The Germany wanted the war to be a catastrophe with a lot of bloodshed and unrestricted killings.

Eventhough there might be different motives between the two documents, but they both agreed on gaining more. In Captian von Spiegel's Account, he used descriptions like, "Then a frightful explosion followed, and we were all thrown against one another by the concussion, and then, like Vulcan, huge and majestic, a column of water two hundred metres high and fifty metres broad, terrible in its beauty and power, shot up to the heavens." Although von Spiegel was describing a horrifying explosion, but he described it in such enthusiasm, it revealed his yearning for more power. In the Zimmerman Notes it stated "We intend to begin on the first of February unrestricted submarin warfare." the Germany were desperate on starting war so that they could gain more teritorries. In conclusion, the movtivation and perspective were different from the two documents, but they both aimed the same goal.

Chapter 23; Sec: 1,2,3

1) How did the Great War change America (USA) internally?
2) How did the Great War change the way war was fought, in general?


A1) The Great War changed American internally by being the "first" war. By first war, it meant that America experiented many different war method that was never used. Moreover, there was a sense of motivation that all Americans should be doing something for their country. ' And there was an irresistible feeling that one should do something . . . I said to myself, if there's never going to be another war, this is the only opportunity to see it."American wanted this war. Therefore, American government sent large number of troops and threw them into the bloody killing field. This was a change for America because they started to build their army force stronger. The Selective Service Act was created, and soldiers were being well trained. There was one significant positive influence, it was The all-black 396th Regiment, black men were still not fully accepted during the time of the Great War. However, black soldiers from the Regiment performed great suceeds. They were nicknamed the "Hell Fighters" and recieved the highest military honors from France. This brought elimination of racism one step forward.

A2) The Great War change the way war was fought in general by developing new technologies. It was no longer a face-to-face nor hand-to-hand battles, it became a more impersonal war and a deadlier one. Killing machines were developed with more advance technologies, this created an overwhemling amount of deaths. Weapons were not it, chemical weapons were in used, and soldiers suffered from long painful deaths, eventhough some may have survived but they all suffered from lifetime internal body damages. More methods were developed to fight wars. For examples trench warfares, sky warfares (Airplanes), sea warfares (U-boats), and land warfares (Tanks). These newly developed method changed the way war were fought and introduced a more severe and deadly battlefield.