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Harvard University West and The Pacific Ocean Effects on Women Questions

 

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Questions

Part 1:

  1. How did expansion in the West and the Pacific Ocean affect women? Use specific examples from the course.
  2. How did industrialization remake the American woman?
  3. Why were so many working women discontented during the Gilded Age? Use specific examples.
  4. What obstacles confronted independent Native Americans after Reconstruction? How did this affect Native American women?
  5. How did immigrant women adjust the conversation about woman suffrage and equal rights?
  6. Why did the United States enter World War I? And how did World War I transform American women’s lives?

Part 2:

  1. Were the 1920s a “return to normalcy” for women, as Warren G. Harding had advocated? Or was it reasonable to describe the 1920s as a site of “culture wars”? Use specific examples.
  2. How did the New Deal reorient American women’s relationship to government?
  3. How did decolonization and the Cold War shape post-World War II American women’s lives?
  4. What were the contradictions of the Affluent Society? And how did American women’s lives change in the 1950s?
  5. What were the tenets/main goals of Second Wave feminism? How did this shape the efforts of feminist organizers in the Second Wave?
  6. How did the New Right shift political discourse in the United States? What role did women play in that shift?
  7. What emerging trends have developed in recent American women’s history? Discuss using specific arguments.