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Harvard University West and The Pacific Ocean Effects on Women Questions
I’m trying to study for my English course and I need some help to understand this question.
Questions
Part 1:
- How did expansion in the West and the Pacific Ocean affect women? Use specific examples from the course.
- How did industrialization remake the American woman?
- Why were so many working women discontented during the Gilded Age? Use specific examples.
- What obstacles confronted independent Native Americans after Reconstruction? How did this affect Native American women?
- How did immigrant women adjust the conversation about woman suffrage and equal rights?
- Why did the United States enter World War I? And how did World War I transform American women’s lives?
Part 2:
- 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.
- How did the New Deal reorient American women’s relationship to government?
- How did decolonization and the Cold War shape post-World War II American women’s lives?
- What were the contradictions of the Affluent Society? And how did American women’s lives change in the 1950s?
- What were the tenets/main goals of Second Wave feminism? How did this shape the efforts of feminist organizers in the Second Wave?
- How did the New Right shift political discourse in the United States? What role did women play in that shift?
- What emerging trends have developed in recent American women’s history? Discuss using specific arguments.