mini investigation rough draft

A

1) Voter turnouts during the Great Depression in the United States.

2) How did unemployment affect voter turnouts in the United States during the Great Depression?

3) In 22.March.2008, Taiwan's government experienced a major change. Taiwan switched from one party to another party. The people of Taiwan think that a change in party will ease the economic downfall. The voter turnout in 2008 is greater than in 2004. The same thing might have happened in the US, so I want to find out if unemployment does affect voter turnout.

4) For this investigation, I will need primary sources, and databases. The primary source would be for the interviews with the unemployed during the great depression. The database would be for more factual information.

B

1) a) Depression rate 25%

b) voter turnout: 1928 56.9%

c) voter turnout: 1932 52.4%, 1936 56.0%

d) Childhood memories during the Great depression + political

2) a) "America in the Great War," EyeWitness to History, www.eyewitnesstohistory.com (2000).

b) U.S. Bureau of the Census, Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970.

c) "Voter Turnout in Presidential Elections, 1932-2000." HISTORY MADE EVERY DAY. 28 June 2007. Web. 7 Nov 2009. .

d) http://unclespike.vox.com/library/post/childhood-memories-during-the-great-depression.html

C

1) source D: Writing this essay is mostly about people's opinion. I need to get some people's opinion about politics during the great depression. This source would probably be enough for me to generalize what most Americans felt during the Great Depression. This is not like a database source, this is a person's on account, and this has feelings. Controversially, a database can only show non-bias information. A database is only a stat of something. It doesn't show how people are suffering during the great depression.

2) The author of this account is the mother of "Uncle Spike". She wrote this as a memoir of what happened when she was still a little girl. This memoir is valuable to historians. It is something that really happened in the past and most other people probably don’t really remember what happened then or don’t remember the details.

D

1) The facts from part B source D is enough to answer the question with minimal detail, but isn't enough to make a complete answer. In order to make a complete answer, more facts may be necessary. The other facts, source A-C, is enough to do their part in answering the detail. These are simple, but accurate details.

2) Sources A-C can't be interpreted differently. These sources are like 1+1=2. However, source D can't be interpreted differently. Because Source D is a person's personal account and can't be proven one way or the other, many people living at the same period might think or feel differently.

Social issues comparrison 22.Oct.2009

A social issue in the 1920, as stated by History Alive, is that the KKK started to attack immigrants. This clan is so powerful that it can steal a guy out of jail. They stole Leo Frank out of state prison and hanged him. Leo Frank was jailed for murdering a young girl. Zinn agrees that the KKK is active. For example, the KKK is powerful enough to overpower a bit organization like the NCAP. But Schweikart says something completely different. He says that the number of members of the KKK is dropping. But we don’t know if the numbers are dropping or the percentage is dropping. He says this to show that the KKK isn’t something big to be worried about.
History Alive stated that a social problem in the 1920s was that the the liberals wanted to protect the minorities by starting the ACLU. This Union was formed to support freedom of speech, and they defended unpopular minorities. Another union is the NAACP. But Zinn stated that the NAACP could not do anything because of the powerful KKK. The NAACP is powerless in front of KKK mobs. Scheiwkart disagrees with History Alive by saying that liberals are hypocrites and they can’t do anything because they are hypocrites. They are hypercritical because they send their kids to elite, expensive all-white nativist schools like Andover and Sidney Friends. The liberals have no idea what it is like to be a minority, so they don’t know what the minorities actually need.

Another major problem in 1920’s was that the government supported the Nativists by enacting the immigration act in 1922. History Alive supports this by saying that the immigration law allowed 3% of each race from the 1890’s to immigrate into the U.S. Zinn completely supports this By saying that only 100 people are allowed from Chine and 51,277 are allowed from Germany. He also gives limitations of other countries. Schweikart completely avoids this topic. But he does say that some sheriffs in The South are not-so-comical symbols of white racism.

Essay project

Question: Did unemployment threaten voter turnouts?

Wishlist
1) Voter turnout in 1928 and in 1932.
2) Interview with an unemployed person during this time frame about politics
3) Employment rate before, during, and after

Sources
1) Purpose: to document the Voter's turnout proximate to the Great Depression
Timeframe: 1920s to 1940s
Place: the US
2) Purpose: to document a real person's feelings during the Great Depression. This can be used in the future for other people
Time: Someone who lived during the Great Depression
Place: the US and maybe Europe b/c of the tarrif
3) Purpose: to document what happened in the US so that economic depressions can be predicted more accurately
Time: During the Great Depression
Place: The US and maybe Europe