Assignment:
Prepare:
• Explore the Alien Menace. article thoroughly, viewing all of the links. You are not required to answer the questions on the website, only to consider them.
• Choose the group that you plan to focus on during course and in your Final Project. You must choose from the groups listed below:
o African Americans
o Native Americans/American Indians
o Women
o Immigrants
Reflect:
• Reflect on the restrictions and beliefs based on race, gender, ethnicity, and national origin that were common in American society during the last half of the 1800s.
• Think about the changes (both positive and negative) that came about as a result of the industrial revolution and westward expansion.
• Think about how discrimination shaped the experiences of each group. What particular challenges and opportunities did each group confront during this period?
• How did your chosen group impact the history of this period?
Write:
Include your chosen group in your discussion title. Based on the chapters in your textbook and the required exhibit, answer the following:
• What are some of the ways that restrictions and beliefs based on race, ethnicity, gender, and national origin shaped American society in the latter half of the 1800s?
• Assess how these restrictions shaped your chosen group's experience of the industrial revolution and/or westward expansion.
• Explain the changes that members of your chosen group made possible during this period.