solved Choose 1 of the 5 questions listed: 1. Among New

Choose 1 of the 5 questions listed:
1. Among New Deal laws or programs that have become permanent parts of American life since the 1930s are Social Security, the Securities Exchange Commission, the full legalization of labor unions, and federal banking deposit insurance. What has made these laws or programs so popular and enduring? How did the financial crisis and real estate meltdown in the United States of 2008-2009 highlight the importance and the limitations of these particular New Deal economic and labor laws and programs?
2. What is the evidence to support the contention that “the most damning indictment of the New Deal was that it failed to cure the Depression”? What are the political, economic, and social achievements of value that the New Deal and President Roosevelt’s optimistic and self-confident leadership during the Great Depression did in fact accomplish?
3. What role did women play in the government and intellectual life of the 1930s? How did the interests and concerns of women in this period differ from those of the 1920s (see Chapter 30, American Life in the “Roaring Twenties,” 1920-1929)?
4. Describe the dominant political, cultural, and social themes of American literature in the 1920s. Explain why these literary themes and modernism captured the cultural zeitgeist of the 1920s.
5. Some historians have considered the political tensions of the 1920s in terms of a rural, conservative, and nativist backlash against a rising urban, progressive, and “New Immigrant” America. Do you agree with this proposition? Why or why not? Cite specific political, economic, and social developments in America during the 1920s to support your argument.