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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
Have for Question 1 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.
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.
You do not have to write about the two periods
with the strike through (1865-1867 and
1867-1872) in the Unit essay test as you did in the Practice Essay
(History Changes Essay), but you need to understand them enough to avoid
factual error in what you do right. For an example of what I mean, scroll to
the bottom of this webpage.
You write on about the significant events that occur with blacks in the South for the time period. You will have two of these time periods to choose from. You write on either one.
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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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1872-1877 |
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1877-1887 |
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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.
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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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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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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