Potential Essays:

1. Discuss the issues facing African-Americans from the 1870s to the Great Depression. Be certain to discuss demographic factors (i.e. - where they lived, economic standards, life expectancy, access to education), and political and civil rights issues. Finally, identify the responses to these issues, including what these responses entailed, leaders, and organizations.

2. Compare and contrast Populism and Progressivism. From what distinct groups of society did the two groups emerge? What was at the heart of their beliefs about how society should be organized? What were the Granger and Alliance Movements, and how did they transform from a social and into a political entity? What was the Omaha Platform, and how did it make an appeal outside of the original Populist base? With the Progressives, how are they linked with the Populists, despite being drawn from entirely different segments of society? What were the major accomplishments of the Progressives (be certain to include specific laws, programs, constitutional amendments, etc). Despite their success, what was the “darkside” of Progressivism? 

3. Discuss the coming of the great depression what brought on the great depression? Ur answer MUST include an identification of all of the following: The stock market crash, the Florida land boom, interlocking banking and corporate structures, as well as agricultural issues. What were the world-wide responses to the Great Depression? What was the US’s response both before and after Franklin Roosevelt took office? Discuss the New Deal. What were the major programs and what were they designed to accomplish? Identify each of the major critics of FDR and the New Deal. What were their ideas? Finally what was the legacy of the New Deal?