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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?

Overview of Unit 1

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Possible Comparison Topics for This Unit and for the Introductory History Changes Comparison (a Practice Comparison)

This link (also available in Comparison Topics on the left menu) tells you all possible Comparison Topics and specifically what you must read:

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

With Unit 1, you also have visuals so you can see change over time from the 1860s to 1900—the time periods covered by Part A, Part B, and C combined. To see these combined links on domestic trends and on foreign policy and imperialism and about groups such as farmers, laborers (usually factory workers), and blacks in the South, click here or scroll to the bottom for a set of links called Bringing It All Together.

 

Parts in the Unit,  Chapter #s, and Required Links

Check Your Knowledge Quizzes With and Without Tips

Seeing How History Changes Over Time, Over Space, and Sometimes Both Simultaneously at One Time (The Purpose below the link says what you look for in the link.)

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 - Use this to decide your answers before you take the Check Your Knowledge Quiz –  (Measure what you think is true without looking anything up. After you take the Check Your Knowledge quiz, then see what you missed and therefore have to read with care.)

·         Quiz A With Tips for Locating Information – Use this version for tips and to record as you learn. (You can copy this file into a Word document and record without printing.

·         1860-1877 Quick Reference on the Civil War and Reconstruction. – Includes essential content prior to Chapter 16 

·         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:

·         Shows side by side the traits of North and South before the Civil War (and therefore after as well): Traits of North and South from about the 1830s to 1860 – demographics, economy, government and politics, social controls, religion, education, and more

·         Shows Key Parts of the Missouri Compromise including the tally of Senators and Representatives in 1820. As the tally shows, the practical reality is:

  • That North outnumbered the South in the House of Representatives before the Missouri Compromise.
  • That the Missouri Compromise confirmed in the new territories of the Louisiana Purchase the earlier agreement in the Northwest Ordinances of 1787 that the North would not have slavery in the new territories. This meant that—as those territories became states each with 2 Senators--the North would outnumber the South in the Senate.

Part B: Gilded Age Transformations

 

Chapters 17, 18

 

·         Quiz B - Use this to decide your answers before you take the Check Your Knowledge Quiz 

·         Quiz B With Tips for Locating Information – Use this version for tips and download it to record as you learn.

·         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 organizations. The differences determine which organization will survive.

Part C: Turmoil and Expansion

 

Chapter 19

 

·         Quiz C - Use this to decide your answers before you take the Check Your Knowledge Quiz

·         Quiz C With Tips for Locating Information  – Use this version for tips and download it to record as you learn.

·         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 to See a New World in 1900

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, 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.

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

Purpose: Notice the amazing shifts not only within the period from 1865 to 1877 and within the period from 1877 to 1901, but also from the beginning of the Unit and the end. If you look carefully, especially at the first 7 rows of the table, you will see what supports were taken away (such as the removal of Union troops in the South and the actions by the Supreme Court)  went away from 1877 on and you will also know why it changed so much.

 

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

 

Seeing Change Over Time 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—it will be an issue not just in Unit 2 and 3, but through today.

 

 

 

 

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