Explain how the concept of citizenship changed broadly between 1776 and 1945. You must evaluate race, ethnicity, and gender in your answer. Pick three to four ideas/events to to write about in answering this question and ensure that you connect the ideas. For example, think broadly about how the Constitution, Manifest Destiny, Reconstruction, the advent of industrial capitalism, Prohibition/the 1920s, the Depression/New Deal and WW2 might have shaped understandings of who deserved to be a citizen and who did not. Think about the concept of citizenship for native Americans, women, African Americans and immigrants. Use specific examples.
Citizenship in 1776 saw the naturalisation of white Americans who stayed for 2 years in America and received citizenship and henceforth gave rise to immigration and huge diaspora from Latin America and Africa.
This however saw unprecedented mix and diversity creating problems and hence was restructured by Herbert Hoovre in 1930 around regime to manage the Great Depression and post which new President Franklin Roosevelt in 1932 announced the New Deal for US Citizenship.
The Reconstruction period also saw in 1870s a large scale influx of Black Americans and various races and ethnicities due to Industrialization, opening of regulations and licenses to sectors and capitalism.
Various factors like World War II had negative implications like multiple entries and invasion by Europeans who still reside and their heirs have had received citizenship till 1945.
Explain how the concept of citizenship changed broadly between 1776 and 1945. You must evaluate race,...