Links from Your Instructor for Chapter 18: Society and Politics in the Gilded Age, 1865–1900

 

 

 

Links Specific to Chapter 18

Self-Testing Using Answers to Observe Patterns about Government

·         Without answers for self-testing: Comparison of Governmental Actions from 1883 through the 1890s
With answers for observing patterns: Comparison with Answers
Purpose: Look at all the problems faced by workers and by farmers. What is government’s goal at this time?
Notice the new governmental form of the commission—it will be an issue not just in Unit 2 and 3, but through today.

 

 

Links Useful with Chapters 16, 17, 18, and 19

Chronologies to Help You See Changes and Interconnections

Optional Reference

  • Snapshot of America in the 1870s-1890s (PDF) – This provides a searchable resource.
    Purpose: Notice what is going on in different areas of American life, including broad trends such as the economy and specific information about groups, such as women. We will also later compare those same areas of American life in Unit 2 with the period between 1895 and 1920 and during the 1920s.

Optional Background: the Study Tool of Chronological Events from the Period before 1877

·         Notice the color coding of events of corruption and SCANDALS in this era and  WHO EXPOSES THAT CORRUPTION.
If you were living in this era and reading the newspaper, what would you be
thinking is happening?

 

If You Want to See a Link Useful with a Specific Chapter

If you think a resource specific to a chapter that you look at previously will help you, those links are repeated here.

Self-Testing Using Answers to Observe Patterns about Workers in Factories

Self-Testing Using Answers to Observe Patterns about Farmers

·         Without answers for self-testing: Comparison of Farmer Events from 1869 through 1893 – and to the End of the 1890s
With answers for observing patterns:
Comparison with Answers
Purpose: Notice how farmers rise in power and then lose that power.

Self-Testing Using Answers to Observe Patterns about Government

·         Without answers for self-testing: Comparison of Governmental Actions from 1883 through the 1890s
With answers for observing patterns: Comparison with Answers
Purpose: Look at all the problems faced by workers and by farmers. What is government’s goal at this time?
Notice the new governmental form of the commission—it will be an issue not just in Unit 2 and 3, but through today.

Seeing Change Over Time in American Business and Foreign Policy

·         Seeing Change Over Time Color-coded terms to help you notice what happened in the background period from 1882 to 1893 and the active period of expansion after that to 1900:
- with the economy and politics
- with Hawaii and the Pacific
- with China
- with Latin America and the Caribbean, including Cuba and the Spanish-American War

 

 

 

 

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