Content for Unit 1

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

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

Bringing It All Together

What Happens to Blacks in the South: the same content as in the History Changes Essay

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 – What are you looking for? 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 – What are you looking for? 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 – What are you looking for? 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.

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