1) Why do the authors of Document 1 and Document 2 believe it is necessary to strictly define Americans, and promote eff

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1) Why do the authors of Document1 and Document 2 believe it is necessaryto strictly define Americans, and promote efforts to assimilate, or“Americanize,” immigrants in the United States? How do PresidentTheodore Roosevelt and Senator Smith’s arguments differ? Do youfind their arguments persuasive? Why or why not? Based uponDocument 3, how might Woody Guthrie respond toeach of those proposals?
2) The turbulent 1960s saw numerous attempts toidentify the root problems within American society and the role ofcitizens in resolving them. In examining Document4, Document 5, and Document6, what common problems are identified within Americansociety? What are some of the differences? What role did each ofthese documents suggest Americans should play in achieving socialjustice? Are their arguments persuasive? Why or why not?
3) The last several decades of the TwentiethCentury saw the emergence of new groups of Americans claimingrights as citizens. To what extent does the failure of the EqualRights Amendment (Document 7) to be ratified, butthe signing of Title IX (Document 8) into law,signal about the changing role and rights of women in modernAmerica? After reading President George H.W. Bush’s remarks(Document 9), why do you believe it took so longfor the country to acknowledge and protect the rights of thedisabled?
4) How does Maya Angelou’s inauguration poem(Document 10) reflect upon the identity of“hyphenated Americans” by the early 1990s? In readingDocument 11, how does President-Elect Barack Obamadefine Americanism? Looking back over documents 1-13, did hiselection, as the first person of color to become President of theUnited States, resolve the questions and crises surrounding thedefinition of an American citizen? In a post-9/11 world, hasAmerica progressed in its inclusiveness? Why or why not?