Instructions: Explore the Alien Menace exhibit thoroughly, viewing all of the links. You are not required to answer the questions on the website, but consider them. Watch What is Freedom?-Freedom: A History of US from the Films on Demand database. Based on Chapter 1 in your textbook, the required exhibit, and the film, explain
-Why the last half of the 1800s was a time of conflict over the meanings of citizenship, race, and gender.
-How African Americans, White Americans, and immigrants worked to secure their places in the social and political hierarchy.