Zinn Ch. 15
Self-help in Hard
Times
- What
did the Seattle general strike symbolize to the business and government
elite?
- How
did Fiorella La Guardia behave differently from other political figures in
the 1920’s?
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- Would
you have voted for the Mellon plan? Why or why not?
- What
was Galbraith’s explanation of the American economy collapse in 1929? What
was the socialist’s explanation? What was Henry Ford’s? What information,
in addition to what Zinn provides, would you want to have in order to
decide which theory to support?
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- What
series of historical events did Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath
chronicle?
- Why
would the AFL work hard to end the longshoremen-inspired general strike of
1934?
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- What
led to the creation of the CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations)?
- Did
World War II function to weaken labor’s strength in the same way World War
I did?
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DEBATE RESOLUTION:
The more government does, the less
people do to help themselves.