Stock Market Crash and the End of the Roaring Twenties

You will submit the essay as an MS Word file through SafeAssign on our Blackboard page.  Your file must be in .docx format.

 Assignment: Select one of the following questions and write an essay answer.

 1.Analyze the various causes of the stock market crash and explain why the Roaring Twenties came to an end in 1929

2.Analyze the social, economic, and political impacts of the New Deal on U.S. society.

 3.How effective was the New Deal at addressing the needs of the people in the 1930s? Consider especially marginalized groups.

 4.What does the lynching of Emmett Till in 1955 and the trial of the accused murderers tell us about race and power in the United States in the 1950s?

 5.How successful was the United States’ containment policy in Asia between 1945 and 1975?

 6.Choose one of the following movements and analyze the main successes and failures of the movement you selected. Focus on the time period 1945 to 1989: Civil Rights movement, women’s rights movement, or the gay rights movement.

This is not a research paper.  Use the Brinkley textbook, the video lectures, the movies found in the weekly folders, and the primary sources we examined in class (found in the weekly folders) as supporting evidence.  This essay does not require outside research.  You will have all the material needed between the textbook, the video lectures, the movies found in the weekly folders, and the primary sources we examined in class (found in the weekly folders).  If I detect you have used internet sources, I will lower your paper score by one letter grade.

 Length:4-5 pages, typed, double-spaced.

 Grading:Basically, I am looking for:

1.    An essay that is a coherent whole.  Do not simply provide a list of facts.  Tell me why these facts are important and support your argument with evidence.

2.    A clear explanation supported by specific examples from the Brinkley textbook, the video lectures, the movies posted in the weekly folders, and the primary sources week examined in class (posted in the weekly folders) when necessary.

3.    Good organization: your thesis is presented early in the paper with a clear thesis statement and your ideas are developed and supported throughout the essay – leading to a solid conclusion.

4.    Correct spelling, punctuation, and grammar.

5.    See the grading rubric I will use to grade your paper for more details.  The rubric is posted on Blackboard in the “Midterm Exam” folder.

 Quotations &

Citation: Because most of the information you put into your essay is not “common knowledge,” you need to cite much of your essay. Review the Plagiarism Quiz tutorial/materials before writing your essay. When you quote or borrow ideas from the Brinkley textbook, the primary source documents, the movies, or the class lecture videos posted on Blackboard, you must provide a citation for it.  Please check my policy on academic dishonesty (plagiarism) located in the syllabus.

1. When citing material from the Brinkley textbook use a modified parenthetical citation identifying the textbook and page number.  These citations must appear after the sentence.  For example, when you use a quote or borrow an idea from the Brinkley textbook, your citation should appear like this: Brinkley argues, “[t]he cause of the blast, according to modern research, was spontaneous combustion in a coal bunker.” (Brinkley, 205)

2. When you use a quote or borrow an idea from a primary source document, your citation should appear like this: (please note—this is an example. Your citation will be based on the document that you are citing) “BEE itt enacted That in case any English servant shall run away…” (Slave Law in Colonial Virginia); which identifies the document by name.

3. When you use a quote or borrow an idea from a movie we viewed in class, your citation should appear like this: (Lewis and Clark, 1:04:00), which identifies the movie by title and the point at which the information occurs in the movie. So this information in this example comes at 1 hour and 4 minutes into the Lewis and Clark movie. Please note: this is an example for clarification purposes. Your citation must refer to the specific documentary you are citing.

4. Citing a class lecture video would appear like this: Mengerink claims in the lecture from week 1 that “history is an awesome topic to study.” (Mengerink, Week 1 Lecture Video

These parenthetical citations are not part of the sentence, so they are not followed by punctuation.  Parenthetical citations should come after the sentence punctuation.

 If you do not have any citations in your essay, I will consider it plagiarism and you will receive a zero (an “F”) on the paper.

Plagiarism:  Please see the professor’s policy on plagiarism located in the course syllabus.  Review the plagiarism quiz materials.

 You have three chances to submit your paper. After you submit the paper through SafeAssign, it will generate an “Originality Report” indicating what it believes is plagiarized in your paper. Review the report carefully. Remove any potential plagiarism by revising your paper and resubmitting it through SafeAssign. The system will check your revised paper for plagiarism. If you need to, revise your paper a second time and submit a third copy to SafeAssign. Of course, if your original paper contains no plagiarism, you need not worry about revising and resubmitting.

 Format:The format guidelines for the paper are:

1. In the upper-left hand corner of the first page, provide your name and the title of the paper.

2.Number your pages.  You must have 4-5 pages of writing that include your argument and supporting evidence.

3.12-point font and 1-inch margins.

Submission: You will submit the essay by 11:59pm on Friday, May 5, 2023, as an MS Word file through SafeAssign on our LU Learn page.  Your file must be in .docx format.

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