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Possible
Essay Questions for Unit 1: Creating a New America - How America Changed from
the 1860s to 1900 |
The 2 essays
work this way.
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You write
2 essays on the exam that ends the Unit. You can prepare because you see all of the possible questions below.
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When you
actually take the exam essays, I provide a pile of narrow strips of paper with
choices for each of those essays so each of you see different tests. When you
finish your objective test, you hand it in to me and pick up the top strip from the pile. You can write
on either one of the choices.
General Tip: 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 Reading Quiz questions for this Unit to find specific words to use in the index at the back of the textbook
Essays are graded based on your understanding of the history and using the Evidence Checklist/Rubric. These links may help:
§ For examples of student essays – using student examples from the History Changes Essay for both United States History 1 and 2
§ For how I use the Evidence Checklist/Rubric in grading
§ For a method for preparing to write a practical essay—one faster and more accurate than any method I have seen yet
The narrow strip will include two of these to choose from. You write on about the significant events that occur with blacks in the South for either one of those choices.
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1865-1867 |
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For each time period, be
sure 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
for the History
Changes essay—and it tells you exactly which pages to read in the
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1867-1872 |
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1872-1877 |
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1877-1887 |
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1887-1893 |
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1893-1901 |
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@ 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.
The narrow strip will include 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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Granger laws and the
Interstate Commerce Commission (what happens about railroads and regulation) |
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Granger laws - Tip:
how to the farmers make this happen? |
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Interstate Commerce
Commission - Tip: what’s a commission as a governmental form |
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Grant’s Peace Policy and
the Dawes Severalty Act (what happens with Native Americans) |
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Grant’s Peace Policy Tip:
notice the consequences |
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Dawes Severalty Act – 17
covers the law; 18 covers the consequences. Tip: the word severalty
means owning property as an individual, not a tribe |
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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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