American History Homework Eleven Answers - Student Eleven

DeborahB.

1. This course is mostly over. Can you now identify a value in learning history? Absolutely. I personally think history is extremely valuable to myself because it helps me realize what actions, in previous years, resulted in. In turn, I can see what is going on in history now, in the 20th century, see what decisions/actions are being deliberated, and wonder what is going to happen in the future and whether history will repeat itself. Also, it's interesting to see how America has (and has not!) learned from it's mistakes. Learning history is most definitely valuable!

Good, but note that we're in the 21st century, and "its" is the possessive form, not it's.

2. Was the United States right to enter World War II, and should we have entered sooner or later? The United States was definitely right to enter the war, and it entered in the perfect time. In the end, every tactic that happened was extremely influential in World War II, and the timing was perfect.

Good, but need detail to support your view.

3. Which of the approaches in American history towards immigration do you like best, and why? The approaches towards immigration I like best are the ones that ban immigration and limit it as much as possible. I like these because the more immigrants that come into America and came int he past did nothing except over populate and harm the economy.

A bit overstated and some specific references to history would be helpful. (Minus 1).

4. Pick out something from the "Roaring Twenties" and describe what you like about it. I like how the development of jazz happened. This shows that people were becoming more modernized and developing more into the 20th century that we know today. Jazz is definitely a product of more modern thinking, because jazz itself is just a freestyle, improvising type of music.

Excellent.

5. What is your view of the New Deal, and what might you have done differently in response to the Great Depression? I think the New Deal was a feeble attempt on President Truman's part that didn't really do anything. Government power and expansion is almost always detrimental, and almost always results in the people losing more freedoms, and thegovernment becoming more and more oppressive. In the end, the New Deal did nothing to end the Great Depression.

Superb, except it was President FDR who did the New Deal, not Truman! (Minus 2).

6. Do you think we should have dropped the atomic bombs on Japan? Explain. Yes, I do. It was extremely helpful and influential. It showed them we really meant business in going into war with them, and, in the end, the results were catastrophic - three days after America dropped the second atomic bomb, Japan surrendured!

It did show them that we meant business! Excellent. (note spelling: surrendered).

7. Please interpret and explain the cartoon, including an estimate of its date. (It was published by a paper in New Jersey years ago.) The cartoon is displaying Teddy Roosevelt, drawn in the left, watching from afar in anger with a clenched fist that his "big stick was a mere willow compared to this." He is seeing the power gained by theHouse and the Senate, and realizing that their sticks were way bigger then his own stick that he bragged about. Something interesting is that the president in the White House at the time of this cartoon was Franklin D. Roosevelt - both Roosevelt's are being portrayed in the same cartoon. The approximate date of the cartoon would be the early 1930s, and it was probably drawn a Republican who did not support the power gaining of theHouse and Senate.

Excellent!

Good work. 67/70.--Aschlafly 18:18, 6 December 2008 (EST)