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Unit 3: Transforming the Nation - 1830s to 1877 |
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Click here for the possible essay questions for the exam that ends Unit 3.
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Topic and Chapter #s |
Links to the Reading Quiz for the Topic,
Resources to Help You See the Facts As Part of the Whole, and Optional
References |
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Reform and Change—Comparing the
Sections Chapter 10 (beginning with the
heading “The Expanding Role of Religion”), Chapter 11, and Chapter 12. Click here for what we will cover in class |
Resources and Reading Quiz ·
Quiz
G – printable
for back-to-back use with the version with answers – Form to use to record your answers or handwritten
if looks exactly like this ·
Reminder of the conditions at the end
of the 1820s -
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.) -
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. Reference: ·
Optional Section If You Are Interested in
the Panic of 1837 - Study Tool: Jackson to Tyler (1828 to 1840) -
If you are trying to understand how depressions and
recessions can occur, notice the blue arrows (► and ▼). If you
have questions about how these facts in the textbook, come together to create
the Panic of 1837, just ask. |
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Manifest Destiny and the
Impending Crisis Chapter 12, 13,
and 14. Click here for what we will cover in class |
Resources and Reading Quiz ·
Quiz
H - printable
for back-to-back use with the version with answers – Form to use to record your answers or handwritten
if looks exactly like this ·
The shift in the South to the defense of
slavery as “positive good,” not just a “necessary evil” and its 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.) -
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 |
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Civil War and Reconstruction Chapters 15 and 16 Click here for what we will cover in class |
Resources and Reading Quiz ·
Quiz I - printable for back-to-back use
with the version with answers – Form to use to record your answers or handwritten
if looks exactly like this ·
1860-1877
Quick Reference to the Civil War and to Reconstruction. -
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 boxing match what would you think? ·
Study
Tool: Chronological Events of the 1867-1877 Era (compressed to 1 page) – What are you looking for? -
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 |
TEMPORARY link of questions with answers for the current quiz: Answers for Reading Quiz H for Reading Quiz I –
Test yourself with the quiz without answers at the
top. Grade yourself with these answers. Read what you do not know.
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