Week 3 Assignments

Objectives:
CompareeconomicandculturallifeinruralAmericatothatinurbanAmerica.
DiscussthechangesinU.S.immigrationpolicyinthe1920s.
AnalyzethegoalsandmotivesoftheKuKluxKlaninthe1920s.
DiscussthesuccessesandfailuresoftheEighteenthAmendment.

Assignments:
1. You have to use your toolbar and duplicate the worksheet for editing.
2. Read Chapter 11 section 3.
3. Watch the The Rise and Fall of the 1920s Ku Klux Klan video.
4. Watch the The 18th Amendment and its effects on Organized Crime and U.S. video
5. Complete the Notetaking- Reading Skill: Contrast, located on page 335.
6. Answer the following questions

a. What is the difference between fundamentalism and modernism?

b. Why do you think the trial was emotionally charged?
c. Why do you think the conflict over evolution continues today?
d. What events strengthened the nativist position and eventually led to
establishment of an immigration quota system?
e. Why were nativists worried by the boom in immigrants?
f. What was the problem that confronted nativists?
g. Why do you think the new Klan eventually had millions of members?
h. Why did the Klan eventually decrease in importance?
i. Why did support for the temperance movement increase during WW I?

7. Read American Issues: U.S. Immigration Policy

8. Read and complete the attached worksheets that correspond with page 338
9. Respond to this weeks post.