Unit 1: Creating a New America - How America Changed from the 1860s to 1900

Possible Essay Questions for This Unit and for the Practice Essay (History Changes Essay)

3 Parts of the Unit and Resources and Reading Quizzes A, B, and C

Bringing It All Together

 

 

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What is self-testing and how can it help you?

 

Possible Essay Questions for This Unit and for the Practice Essay (History Changes Essay)

The Practice Essay introduces you to essential content for your understanding of United States History. With this essay, I provide a table to help you see how events changed and I list the specific pages for you to read for each possible question. I provide an overview and I encourage you to ask questions.

Click here for the possible essay questions for the Practice Essay (History Changes Essay)

 

The possible essay questions for the Unit tell you all possible essay questions on the Unit exam. They show you what combinations of facts to examine so you can notice how history changed during the Unit.

Click here for the possible essay questions for the exam that ends Unit 1.

3 Parts of the Unit, Resources, and Check Your Knowledge Quizzes A, B, and C

Parts in the Unit and Chapter #s

Links to the Check Your Knowledge Quiz (1st for tips and links; 2nd for recording), Resources to See Facts As Part of the Whole, and Optional References

Part A: Reconstruction Abandoned; Beginning of the Gilded Age

 

Chapters 16-17 (also requires 1860-1877 Quick Reference on the Civil War and Reconstruction)

 

·         Quiz A - Check Your Knowledge    – Quiz A for Recording  - Tip You want to record such things as what you missed and why, textbook page numbers where you found the answer, and what quiz questions are also part of essays questions.

·         Click here or scroll to the bottom for Bringing It All Together. You can see how History Changes from Part A, Part B, and Part C for

  • For major parts of American life in the Snapshot
  • For specific groups in America: the farmers, laborers (usually factory workers), blacks in the South, and government
  • For blacks in the South
  • For foreign policy and expansion

·         1860-1877 Quick Reference on the Civil War and Reconstruction. – Includes essential content prior to Chapter 16 
Same content if you want to print it

·         Study Tool: Chronological Events of the 1867-1877 Era (compressed to 1 page) – Purpose:

  • Notice the color coding

·         Events of corruption and SCANDALS in this era

·         Who exposes that corruption?

  • If you were living in this era and reading the newspaper, what would you be thinking is happening?

 

Optional Reference: background on the traits of North and South before the Civil War (and therefore after as well)

·         The population and voting statistics behind the Civil War – data from 1820’s Missouri Compromise – The Missouri Compromise’s parts are:

  • No slavery north of bottom border of Missouri with the exception of Missouri – In other words the rest of the Louisiana Purchase will not have slavery’
  • Territories that protect slavery under their new state constitution and those that forbid it under their new state constitution free states thereafter come into the Union in pairs (one slave state and one free state so the number of slave state and free state Senators remain the same, with Missouri and Maine being the first pair)

·         Traits of North and South from about the 1830s to 1860 – demographics, economy, government and politics, social controls, religion, education, and more

Part B: Gilded Age Transformations

 

Chapters 17, 18

 

·         Quiz B - Check Your Knowledge         Quiz B for Recording

·         Don’t forget to click here or scroll to the bottom for Bringing It All Together. You can see how History Changes from Part A, Part B, and Part C on multiple areas of American life.

·         Changes in technology

·         Without answers for self-testing: Comparison of Knights of Labor and American Federation of Labor
With answers for observing patterns: Comparison with Answers. – Purpose: Notice the differences between the two. The differences determine which organization will survive.

Part C: Turmoil and Expansion

 

Chapters 19

 

·         Quiz C - Check Your Knowledge   - Quiz C for Recording

·         Don’t forget to click here or scroll to the bottom for Bringing It All Together. You can see how History Changes from Part A, Part B, and Part C on multiple areas of American life.

·         Expansion as America is Transformed Internationally
Study Tool: Chronological Events of the 1893-1901 Era
Purpose: Notice the order of events (not the specific dates) for the events of this period, especially those leading to the Spanish-American War. How do those events interconnect? (This link ends Quiz C.)

Bringing It All Together

Seeing Change Over time - 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, we will compare those same areas with the period between 1895 and 1920 and during the 1920s.

Seeing Change Over Time - What Happens to Blacks in the South: the same content as in the History Changes Essay

 

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

 

Labor, Farmers, and Government Transformations

·         Without answers for self-testing: Comparison of Labor Events from 1874 through 1893 – and to the End of the 1890s
With answers for observing patterns: Comparison with Answers – Purpose: Notice where is the labor unrest and in what industries. Notice how strikes are stopped—is that what you expected to be the method?

·         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.

·         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.

 

 

Copyright C. J. Bibus, Ed.D. 2003-2013

 

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2013

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