Read “The ‘Omaha Platform” of the People’s Party (1892)” and using a minimum of 200 words (not including quotations) respond to the following questions. Make sure to reference specific passages from the document and/or textbook to support your discussion:
According to the platform, what are the major issues facing the nation?
How do the Populists propose to use the power of the government to correct these problems?
What proposals in the platform eventually became a reality?
Read “James D. Phelan, ‘Why the Chinese Should Be Excluded’ (1901)” and using a minimum of 200 words (not including quotations) respond to the following questions. Make sure to reference specific passages from the document and/or textbook to support your discussion:
According to the Mayor of San Francisco, what was the state of affairs in California prior to the exclusion of immigrants from China?
How does the Mayor justify extending the exclusion of immigrants from China?
How does the Mayor characterize “the Chinese?”
Why do you suppose the original Exclusion Act had a ten-year limit?
Does the language in this document resonate with contemporary attitudes toward immigrants? Why or why not?
Read “Booker T. Washington & W.E.B. DuBois on Black Progress (1895, 1903)” and using a minimum of 200 words (not including quotations) respond to the following questions. Make sure to reference specific passages from the document and/or textbook to support your discussion:
According to Washington, how should African Americans respond to systemic racial discrimination?
What does Washington mean when he says that “the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremest folly?”
What does DuBois think of Washington’s plan to uplift African Americans?
What, according to DuBois, has been the result of following Washington’s advice?
Read “Huey P. Long, “Every Man a King” and “Share our Wealth” (1934)” and using a minimum of 200 words (not including quotations) respond to the following questions. Make sure to reference specific passages from the document and/or textbook to support your discussion:
What were the most radical aspects of Long’s plan?
Did any of his ideas become reality?
Upon whose law did Long base his ideas?
What did Long predict would be the consequences if the nation failed to adopt a program such as his?
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