Unit 1: Creating a New America - How America Changed from
the 1860s to 1900 |
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For the basics for all
essays, click here for the “Tour of Everything
You Need to Know about Essays and Evidence in This Course.”
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.
Parts in the Unit and
Chapter #s |
Check Your
Knowledge Quizzes for Tips or Recording |
Seeing How
History Changes Over Time, Over Space, and Sometimes Both Simultaneously at
One Time (The purpose 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) |
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Quiz A -
Check Your Knowledge – Has tips for locating information · Quiz A for Recording – Is printable for recording 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. Optional Reference: Key Parts
of the Missouri Compromise including the tally of Senators and
Representatives in 1820. |
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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
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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:
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Events of
corruption and SCANDALS in this era ·
Who
exposes that corruption?
Optional Reference: background on 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 the traits of the two regions side by side. |
Part B: Gilded Age Transformations Chapters 17, 18 |
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Quiz B -
Check Your Knowledge |
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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
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Without answers for
self-testing: Comparison
of Knights of Labor and American Federation of Labor |
Part C: Turmoil and Expansion Chapters 19 |
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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 |
Seeing Change Over time - Snapshot of America in the 1870s-1890s (PDF) – This provides a searchable resource. |
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: |
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 ·
Without
answers for self-testing: Comparison of Farmer Events from 1869
through 1893 – and to the End of the 1890s ·
Without answers for
self-testing: Comparison of Governmental Actions from
1883 through the 1890s |
Copyright C. J. Bibus, Ed.D. 2003-2013 |
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History – Dr. Bibus |
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281.239.1577 or bibusc@wcjc.edu |
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2013 |
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