What a dilemma! Who should be let in?
Grapple with these hypotheticals
Now imagine the difficulties in developing and implemeting a blanket Immigration and Naturalization Policy!
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The Prompt: The symbiotic relationship between the growing immigrant population and big city party machines during the Gilded Age was mutually beneficial. Assess the validity of this statement.
Feel free to refer to your DBQ Tips Sheet
Immigration and Political Machines DBQ
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In case you missed class, here are my lecture notes
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Here are the class discussion questions
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Zinn was raised in a working-class family in Brooklyn, and flew bombing missions for the United States in World War II, an experience he now points to in shaping his opposition to war. In 1956, he became a professor at Spelman College in Atlanta, a school for black women, where he soon became involved in the Civil Rights Movement, which he participated in as an adviser to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). When he was fired in 1963 for insubordination related to his protest work, he moved to Boston University, where he became a leading critic of the Vietnam War.
He is perhaps best known for A People’s History of the United States, which presents American history through the eyes of those he feels are outside of the political and economic establishment.
Here is an autobiographical clip from YouTube
Chapter 10: The Other Civil War with Response Questions
Sadly, Zinn died on 28 January 2010. Of the many obituaries written, this one stands out to me.
In his autobiography, You Can’t Stay Neutral on a Moving Train, Zinn said, “From the start, my teaching was infused with my own history. I would try to be fair to other points of view, but I wanted more than ‘objectivity’; I wanted students to leave my classes not just better informed, but more prepared to relinquish the safety of silence, more prepared to speak up, to act against injustice wherever they saw it. This, of course, was a recipe for trouble.” RIP.
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Provoking, witty, stylish and sweepingly informative, THE CORPORATION explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time. Part film and part movement, The Corporation is transforming audiences and dazzling critics with its insightful and compelling analysis. Taking its status as a legal “person” to the logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist’s couch to ask “What kind of person is it?” The Corporation includes interviews with 40 corporate insiders and critics – including Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Milton Friedman, Howard Zinn, Vandana Shiva and Michael Moore – plus true confessions, case studies and strategies for change.
Here are some film notes and questions
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The Basics: The Rise of Industrial Capitalism
Notes from Bruce Laurie’s book, Artisans into Workers: Labor in 19th Century America. University of Illinois Press, 1989:
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