Content for Unit 3

Unit 3: Transforming the Nation - 1830s to 1877

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What is self-testing and how can it help you?

Possible Essay Questions for This Unit

The possible essay questions for the Unit tell you all possible essay questions on the Unit exam. They show you what combinations of facts to examine so you can notice how history changed during the Unit.

Click here for the possible essay questions for the exam that ends Unit 3.

3 Parts of the Unit, Resources, and Check Your Knowledge Quizzes G, H, and I

Parts in the Unit and Chapter #s

Check Your Knowledge Quizzes for Tips or Recording

Seeing How History Changes Over Time, Over Space, and Sometimes Both Simultaneously at One Time (The purpose says what you look for in the link.)

Part G: Reform and Change —Comparing the Sections

Chapter 10 (beginning with the heading “The Expanding Role of Religion”), Chapter 11, and Chapter 12.

· Quiz G Check Your Knowledge – Has tips for locating information

· Quiz G for Recording – Is printable for recording such things as what you missed and why, textbook page numbers where you found the answer, and what quiz questions are also part of essays questions.

Background: the conditions at the end of the 1820s (a handdrawn sketch from the last Unit)

· Review the table of comparisons of North and South that covers the data in the sketch below: Comparison of the Sections and Examination of Reform from the 1830s to the Civil War

· Make your own sketch or examine the sketch of the Transformation of the Sections – North (the Northeast and the Northwest) and the South (the Southeast or the upper South and the Southwest or lower or deep South)
Sketch of the movement West, including from the Pacific
Purpose:

· What is the difference in the North and South in literacy, education, government, economy, and religion?

· What is the difference in the North and South in reforms?

· Where are Americans (and immigrants) moving?

· When you look at the differences in the North and South, ask yourself who is likely to win a long war?

· Begin events from about 1830 through the Kansas-Nebraska Act using the Study Tool for 1832-1861: Events and Trends That Lead to the War (a 1-page visual that lets you take information from the textbook and consider both the events and the perceptions in the years leading up to the Civil War.)
Purpose:

· Notice the events, particularly those to do with gaining land and then fighting over whether the government for that land will be pro- or anti-slavery.

· Notice the perceptions of the participants.

Part H: Manifest Destiny and the Impending Crisis

Chapter 12, 13, and 14.

· Quiz H Check Your Knowledge

· Quiz H for Recording

There are two general changes in this period.

· Shift in the South to the defense of slavery as “positive good,” not just a “necessary evil”

· The South’s increasing recognition of the success of slavery financially being dependent on new lands to expand to

· Continue events in Kansas through the election of 1860 and Fort Sumter using the Study Tool for 1832-1861: Events and Trends That Lead to the War (a 1-page visual that lets you take information from the textbook and consider both the events and the perceptions in the years leading up to the Civil War.)
Purpose:

· Notice the events, particularly those to do with gaining land and then fighting over whether the government for that land will be pro- or anti-slavery

· Notice the perceptions of the participants

Part I: Civil War and Reconstruction

Chapters 15 and 16

· Quiz I Check Your Knowledge

· Quiz I for Recording

· 1860-1877 Quick Reference to the Civil War and to Reconstruction.
Purpose:

· Watch for cause and effect. Look to see what happens between events. Do not assume anything. Let the events talk to you. One brain trick is to ask yourself: if the events you are seeing were a boxing match, what would you think?

· Study Tool: Chronological Events of the 1867-1877 Era (compressed to 1 page) – Purpose:

· Notice the color coding

· events of corruption and SCANDALS in this era

· WHO EXPOSES THAT CORRUPTION.

· If you were living in this era and reading the newspaper, what would you be thinking is happening?

· Optional: Current Events and Trends for the Future

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Last Updated:	2013
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