National Organizations

Please answer two of the following questions in an organized, formal, analytical essay, of at least 800 words each. I do not want you to simply list out page after page of facts and quotes. If you do that, you will not earn a high score, because you will have written a report. You need to think about these questions, draw on what we have covered, and provide convincing answers, backed up with evidence and specific examples, and cited. Though American workers had been struggling to unionize in significant numbers since the 1860s, they were not very successful in building stable, robust national organizations until the 1930s. Why is this so, and what happened to create the conditions necessary for workers’ success in organizing labor unions?   How do we explain the rapid rise in membership, geographical spread, and power of the second Ku Klux Klan, beginning in the 1910s? (CHAPTER 7 will help with this question)