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Possible
Essay Questions for Unit 1: Creating a New America - How America Changed from
the 1860s to 1900 Possible Choices You Will
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When you read, you identify significant and representative events. When you write, you select from those significant and representative events. You are not writing every fact in the textbook. The objective is to be clear and teach your smart cousin the history. (See Good Habits for Evidence for more details.) The maximum length is 175 words.
You can identify information about significant and representative events that you need to read about carefully by:
§ Using the index at the back of the textbook with the general words in the question
§ Using the quiz questions for this Unit to find specific words to use in the index at the back of the textbook
If those two things are not enough, I will provide tips to resources or to specific locations in the textbook. For examples, look at the tips for the possible choices for question 2 at the bottom of this webpage.
To know that to read, use the link visible after you do the History Changes Quiz – Check Your Knowledge. Tip: Use the chart
· Not only to show you what to read for each period
· But also to help you understand how history changed over time and space
You do not have to write about the two periods
with the strike through (1865-1867 and
1867-1872) in the Unit essay test but you need to understand
them enough to avoid factual error in what you do write. For an example of what
I mean, scroll to the bottom of this webpage.
Using the required reading, you write on the significant events that occur with blacks in the South for each of the time periods listed. For example, if your
You will have two of these time periods to choose from. You write on either one.
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Read the specific sections
from the textbook American Passages.
Also look at the table for self-testing and the completed table with my
answers. These things are provided in the link that is visible after you that
Check Your Knowledge quiz on History Changes —and it tells you exactly which
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1887-1893 |
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@ Caution: Be careful when you read the heading “Segregation” in Chapter 17 covering
how “racial segregation evolved slowly.” That section on “Segregation” starts
out reminding you about legislation passed in 1875—but the section is about what the Supreme Court decides about
that legislation in 1883. Those
pages are not about the 1870s.
Example of
what you will see on the test for this first question. You could do either one.
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Using content from its
required reading, explain what
happened to blacks in the South for one
of these time periods EITHER a) 1872-1877 OR b) 1887-1893 |
General Tip: All of these questions ask you to compare or examine two things, not just summarize one thing. For example, you must figure out what happened with silver--and to people. For a method to do this, click here.
You will have two of these to choose from. You write on either one.
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Crime of ’73 and silver
purchase issues (what happens with currency policy and how does it have
consequences on people) |
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Crime of ’73 - Tip: establishes the gold standard. Notice
inflation/deflation & debtors/creditors |
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Tip: Use the index for the words silver coinage. Notice inflation/deflation &
debtors/creditors (Farmers are debtors in this era.) |
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Cuba and the Teller and
Platt Amendments (what these amendments show about US foreign policy) |
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Teller Amendment - Tip:
Notice what is being amended. |
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Platt Amendment -Tip:
Notice what is being amended. |
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This question is no longer
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Standard Oil and Sherman
Anti-Trust (what happens about the
rise of big corporations, monopoly, and the public response) |
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Standard Oil - Tip:
how does Rockefeller make this happen? |
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Sherman Anti-Trust -Tip:
Location: the section within the heading “Big Business Arrives.” Notice
public response to rise of big corporations, elections |
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Tompkins Square and
Haymarket Square (two examples of what happens with labor) |
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Tompkins Square - Tip:
Location: Main heading -“Panic of 1873…” and subheading “The Plight of the
Unemployed” Tip:unemployed, workers and government’s response. |
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Haymarket Square Tip:
workers and government’s response |
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Example of
what you will see on the test for this second question. You could do either
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Using
content from our textbook or links in the course, explain one of these: EITHER a) Crime of ’73
and silver purchase issues (what happens with currency policy and how does it
have consequences on people) OR
b) Standard Oil and
Sherman Anti-Trust (what happens about
the rise of big corporations, monopoly, and the public response) |
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Caution
about the strike through of Although you do not have to write on these two periods, you do need to understand them enough that you avoid factual error when you write about one of the other four time periods.
If you wrote that1872-1877 was the first time blacks in the South voted, you would be incorrect. Why? Because voting by blacks is covered in the textbook for the periods prior to 1872. |
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