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Note to Reviewers: the directions and
possible choices for Comparisons and numbers of questions will change after I talk
to Ken Grubb. |
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Possible
Comparison Topics 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. 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.
You write on the significant events that occur with blacks in the South for each of the time periods listed/ 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.
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 this
link that is also visible after you that Check Your Knowledge quiz on
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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 Question 1
What Blackboard Displays
You could see any 2 of the 4 possible time periods above in your question. Although you must do one of the 2 displayed, you can do either 1.This is how Blackboard displays the question.
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Using content from its
required reading for the specific period, explain significant
events that occurred with blacks in the South for either ONE of these time periods
EITHER a) 1877-1887 OR
b) 1893-1901 |
How You Should Prepare
For each of
the 4 possible time periods, you can tell the chapters that contain content so
you can recognize that the time period requires you to use more than one
chapter. To know specifically what to read, you should use the link in the
column “Required Preparation.”
You also
should use the chart to notice the differences and you must also read the
textbook pages. For example, if you use the current 4th edition
paperback, you use these pages. (If you use an earlier version, the link also
tells you how to find those pages.)
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For the content for this column, you
read: Pages
429-430 in Chapter 16 and 453-454 in Chapter 17. Look for these headings: ·
“CONCLUSION”
(stops at “As with”) – These pages include some things that WILL happen AFTER
the current time of 1877. ·
“Segregation” – Caution:
These pages are the first to use
the word Segregation in a heading and are about the end of the
period—such as the Supreme Court cases AFTER 1883. |
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
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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
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This question is no longer
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Standard Oil and Sherman
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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 Chapter 17 under the heading “Big Business
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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 Question 2
What Blackboard Displays
You could see any 2 of the 5 possibles above in your question. Although you must do one of the 2 displayed, you can do either 1.This is how Blackboard displays the question.
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Using
content from our textbook or links in the course, explain either ONE of
these: EITHER a) Tompkins
Square and Haymarket Square (two examples of what happens with labor) OR
b) Standard Oil and
Sherman Anti-Trust (what happens about
the rise of big corporations, monopoly, and the public response) |
How You Should Prepare
For each of
the 5 possibles, you can tell the chapters that
contain content so you can recognize that the question requires you to use more
than one chapter. To know specifically what to read, you should use the
guidance in the column “Required Preparation.”
For example,
if you chose the one on Standard Oil and Sherman Anti-Trust, you see this:
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Standard Oil and Sherman
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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 Chapter 17 under the heading “Big Business Arrives.”
Notice public response to rise of big corporations, elections. |
For the Standard Oil part of your content, you look up Standard Oil in
the index at the back of your book and you jot down the page numbers that are
between Chapter 15 and Chapter 19 (ending on page 511)—the chapters covering
this Unit. (For example, if you have the 4th edition paperback, you
jot down 438-439 and 491.)
For the Sherman Anti-Trust part of your content, you look up Sherman Anti-Trust
in the index. You also use the table of contents at the front of the book to
locate the specific heading listed.
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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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