Lesson 2: From Business Culture to Great Depression Primary Source Lesson
Duration of Days: 1
Lesson Objective
Students will analyze and interpret primary source documents with regard to the Americanization movement.
1. Why does Parrish consider contnued immigration dangerous?
2. Whoes the decision in Meyer v. Nebraska expand the definition of liberty protected by the 14th Amendment?
3. How do the two excerpts reflect deep divisions over the nature of American society during the 1920s?
Americanization
Civil liberties
Meyer v. Nebraska
HS.SS.2C - 2C. Assess options for individual and collective action to address local, regional, and global problems by engaging in self-reflection, strategy identification, and reasoning.
Students will evaluate and analyze two documents concerning Americanization and civil liberties.
DOK 3
Teacher will guide discussion on the documents.
Class discussion
Two readings in Foner.
"From Lucian W. Parrish, Speech in Congress on Immigration (1921)"
"From Majority Opinion, Justice James C. McReynolds in Meyer v. Nebraska (1923)