AP History Conference

Topic: Social Mobility & Class Warfare

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Was social mobility possible in early colonial Virginia and/or New England?
Did the GI Bill (1944) create the middle class?
Did organized labor (unions) in the 19th and early 20th Century succeed in improving the lives of the workers?
Did migration to the US offer a better life to southern and eastern European immigrants in the late 19th /early 20th century?
Did the Great Migration to Northern cities in the first decades of the 20th Century improve situation of African Americans?
Did the Great Society curb poverty in the US?
Was the Progressive movement successful in solving the problem of poverty and/or inequality in the early 20th Century?
Did the New Deal lead to revolutionary change in the US or did it prevent a revolution?
What prevented social mobility for African-Americans after the Civil War?
Did laissez faire capitalism (as practiced during the Second Industrial Revolution) help or hinder social mobility?
To what degree is the ideal of the Self-Made Man possible?
Was class warfare the reason for the division between urban and rural America exposed by late 19th Century Populism?
To what degree was the American Dream possible for Americans in the 20th Century?
To what degree did the women's rights movements (First, Second or Third Wave Feminism) impact female social mobility?

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