Part 1 The Rise of ConservatismBackground: Many historians have characterized the period from the Great Depression until the 1970s as a period when liberal politics were dominant. During this period, only Eisenhower interrupted the Democratic hold on the White House. The U.S. Congress remained under Democratic control for the entire period with the exception of two brief two-year periods in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Republicans only finally regained control of the Senate in 1980 and of the House of Representatives in 1994. As such, many Americans look at the 1970s as the beginning of the rise of conservatism.Required source: Scholarly source: The rise of conservatism since World War II.  Website: Pace News Limited. (2013). The Political Compass. Recommended sources: Scholarly source: 'Starve the beast': Origins and development of a budgetary metaphor. Video: The presidents: 1977-2004 [Video] from the Films on Demand database. Instructions: Explore The Political Compass website and take the quiz. Then, refer to your textbook and required resources. In your initial post, explain At least one piece of information that you found surprising or interesting on the Political Compass website. It is completely voluntary, but if you are comfortable doing so, include your score in your post. At least three reasons for the rise of conservatism in the last part of the 20th century. At least one way in which the rise of conservatism had been positive or negative for a specific group of Americans. Your initial post should be at least 250 words in length. Support your claims with examples from the required material(s) and/or other scholarly resources, and properly cite any references. Your references and citations must be formatted according to APA style as outlined by the Ashford Writing Center. Part 2 How Far Have We Come? How Far Left To Go?Background: Throughout this course, we’ve looked at how life has changed for different groups of Americans since the end of the Civil War. In many ways, the United States has made tremendous progress in realizing equality for all Americans. However, there are still some areas in which there is more to do.    Required sources:  Video: The house we live in: Race—the power of an illusion [Video] from the  Films on Demand database. Scholarly source: The other 'subsidized housing.'  Recommended sources:  Video: A hidden America—children of the plains [Video] from the Films on Demand database. Scholarly source: Beyond Black and White. Scholarly source: Then and now or then to now: Immigration to New York in contemporary and historical perspective.. Scholarly source: A woman’s worth: Less is still less.  Instructions: Refer to the information that you have learned in this course and to the assigned video and article, and consider the evolution in American society in relation to race, ethnicity, and gender. What do you think are the most important changes in U.S. society since the Civil War have been?Your initial post should be at least 250 words in length. Support your claims with examples from the required material(s) and/or other scholarly resources, and properly cite any references. Your references and citations must be formatted according to APA style as outlined by the Ashford Writing Center. 

Background: When World War I ended in 1918, Americans welcomed what they hoped would be a return to normalcy. The decades that followed, however, are ones which would rarely be described as normal in comparison to what came before or after. After World War I ended and through the 1920s, a struggle ensued within the American nation regarding how best to define the nation’s essential character, as groups like the revived Ku Klux Klan fought a rearguard action to define nationhood solely in terms of white skin and Protestant religion against secularists, Catholics, flappers, “New Negroes,” and others who challenged the traditional order. Immediately thereafter, the New Deal implemented in response to the Great Depression revolutionized the role of the federal government in lives of the American people, in ways that many Americans believed violated the basic tenets of the Constitution—and others believed were not radical enough. Taken together, the decades from 1920 to 1940 may have transformed the American nation more than any other comparable time period.Required sources:Credibility: Critical thinking. http://digital.films.com.proxy-library.ashford.edu/PortalViewVideo.aspx?xtid=49814&psid=0&sid=0&State=&title=Credibility:%20Critical%20Thinking&IsSearch=Y&parentSeriesID=&tScript=0Primary Source Analysis Tool. Primary sources:Flapper JaneTaking the Hand Off the Cradle to Catch Devil-Fish: How Modern Woman Is Delving Into the Sacred Precints of Male Occupation and Is Now Found in the Role of Bandit, Judge, Bricklayer, Hunter, and Race (pp. 2-3)“The New Negro”: “When he’s hit, he hits back!”Should a Catholic Be President?: A Contemporary View of the 1928 ElectionElise Johnson McDougald on “The Double Task: The Struggle of Negro Women for Sex and Race Emancipation”“Shut the Door”: A Senator Speaks for Immigration RestrictionU.S. v. Bhagat Singh Thind. Recommended sources:The Twenties in the Films on Demand database. Proletarians of the North: A History of Mexican Industrial Workers in Detroit and the Midwest, 1917-1933.Pick an event from World War I through the 1920s and a corresponding primary source* that you can use in your Final Paper. Use the Credibility: Critical Thinking video and the Library of Congress primary source analysis tool to help you as you think about the primary source. Explain in at least 250 words Why you think the event was important and how it relates to your Final Paper topic. What the primary source you chose tells you about this topic.What it does not tell you.*Note: Remember that a primary source is an artifact or document created at the time of an event or by someone who personally witnessed the event. You may choose a primary source from this list or you may find one on your own. Please view the Ashford Writing Center’s material on primary sources.Support claims with examples from the required material(s) and/or other scholarly resources, and properly cite any references according to APA style. 

For this assignment, discuss six (or more) related events and developments that relate to Immigrants in America that affected their lives. Three of these events/developments must be from the years 1865-1920 and three of these events/developments must from the years 1920-present. Then find at least two primary sources and four other sources for a total of six sources. A maximum of two of your sources can be videos. Any sources that are not primary sources or videos must be scholarly sources. Please remember that primary sources are documents or artifacts that were created at the time of a historical event or by someone who personally experienced a historical event. Primary sources can be newspaper or magazine articles, books, letters, speeches, photographs, oral histories, paintings, or any other record of a historical event. For this assignment: •  State the thesis.* •  Write one page identifying and explaining the events that you plan to discuss in the Paper. •  Create an annotated bibliography with a short (one to two paragraphs) annotation for each source.** •  You must use at least six sources other than the textbook to support claims. •  You must use at least two primary sources. •  You may use no more than two videos. ◦  Any source that is not a primary source or a video must be a scholarly secondary source from the Ashford University Library. •  Properly cite your sources within the text of your paper and on the references page. •  Be three pages in length and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. *Thesis statement: the thesis should be a one- or two-sentence summary of the main conclusions that you drew while researching the topic and that you will support in the paper by constructing a logical argument based on evidence (sources). **Annotated Bibliography: To create an annotated bibliography, list each source in full APA reference format. Then, beneath each source write a one- or two-paragraph explanation of the important information in the source and how you plan to use it in the paper. The annotations must be in your own words. It is not acceptable to copy and paste the abstract or any other text. You must have annotations for all six sources. Use the