Diablo Valley College Writing Question

1. Click the following video to watch Becoming Americans: the Italian Americans from the time frame 31:39-52:16. Answer the following questions according to this film:

a. Who are Sacco and Vanzetti?

b. What are they accused of and what is their real crime?

d. How is Italian immigration restricted?

e. Why was Prohibition enacted?

f. What did Prohibition help to create?

2. Click the following video to watch Prohibition (Links to an external site.). Answer the following questions according to this video:

a. Within which group of people is Prohibition primarily enforced? Why do you think this is the case?

b. What is an impact of Prohibition that is still felt today?

3. Read Foner’s Give Me Liberty! pages 630- 634. Click the following video to watch up to 13:38 of the video The Great Depression. Answer the questions which follow:

a. What were the factors which contributed to the Great Depression?

b. Describe the impact of the Great Depression.

c. What was President Hoover’s response to the Great Depression?

d. What did the Bonus Army want, and what happened to them?

4. Read the document Who is an American: Immigration Quotas under the Johnson Reed Act (1924) on page 626 of the Foner text.

Answer the following 2 questions:

a. What do the numbers tell us about which immigrants Congress considered most and least desirable?

b. Why do you think no quotas were established for the Western Hemisphere?