1. (chapters 15-17), Henry Demarest Lloyd wrote in Wealth against Commonwealth (1864), “Liberty and monopoly cannot live together.” Based on your knowledge of the Gilded Age and the industrial revolution, assess the validity of this statement.
2. (chapters 18-20), Examine and analyze Woodrow Wilson’s ideas about foreign policy. To what extent did Wilson put into practice his stated ideas?
3. (chapters 21-23), Describe how the Cold War was fought by each superpower. Be sure to discuss how both the United States and the Soviet Union believed that their social system was firmly based on principles of freedom and social justice.
4. (chapters 24-26), The Nixon-Khrushchev debates held in the setting of a suburban kitchen illustrated how freedom in America had come to mean economic abundance and consumer choices during the 1950s. How is this new conception of freedom a departure from Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms”?
5. (chapters 27-28), What did “freedom” mean for Americans in the early twenty-first century? Was America an “exceptional” nation? How so? Describe the range of freedoms people experienced, or perhaps did not experience. How would Americans describe their status at home and in the world by the end of the Obama presidency? Explain.
