Unit 1: Creating a New America - How America Changed from
the 1860s to 1900 |
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Topic and Chapter #s |
Links to
the Reading Quiz for the Topic, Resources to Help You See the Facts As Part
of the Whole, and Optional References |
Reconstruction Abandoned; Beginning of the Gilded Age Chapters 16-17 |
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Reading
Quiz A – Form
to use to record your answers ·
1860-1877
Quick Reference on the Civil War and Reconstruction. – Includes content prior to Chapter 16 ·
Study Tool:
Chronological Events of the 1867-1877 Era (compressed to 1 page) – What are you looking for? -
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? If needed, background on the traits of North and South before the
Civil War (and therefore after as well)
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Gilded Age Transformations Chapters 17, 18 |
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Reading
Quiz B Printable
Quiz B ·
Study Tool: Chronological Events of the 1877-1887
Era ·
Study Tool: Chronological Events of the 1887-1893
Era ·
Snapshot of America in the 1870s-1890s (PDF) – This provides a searchable resource, with sections shown in
class. ·
Without answers for
self-testing: Comparison of Knights of Labor and American Federation of Labor |
Turmoil and Expansion Chapters 19 |
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Reading
Quiz C -
This is now a printable version with lines (like Reading Quiz B) ·
Expansion as America is Transformed Internationally ·
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: |
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 ·
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 |
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