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

 

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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 and Resources and Reading Quizzes A, B, and C

Parts of the Unit and Chapter #s

Links to the Check Your Knowledge Quiz , Resources to Help You See the 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 with Tips and Links   – Quiz A Printable  - Tip: What would you want to record? What you missed? Where you found it?

·         1860-1877 Quick Reference on the Civil War and Reconstruction. – Includes essential content prior to Chapter 16   (MAYBEJUSTUSETHEPDF
Same content in an easier to print version

·         Study Tool: Chronological Events of the 1867-1877 Era (compressed to 1 page) – What are you looking for? Change this to purpose and put purpse next to everything

-       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)

Part B: Gilded Age Transformations

 

Chapters 17, 18

 

·         Quiz B - Check Your Knowledge with Tips and Links with Tips and Links                 Printable Quiz B

·         Study Tool: Chronological Events of the 1877-1887 Era
What are you looking for besides the events we are examining? Notice the technologies are primarily about new industries.

·         Study Tool: Chronological Events of the 1887-1893 Era
What are you looking for besides the events we are examining?  Notice the technologies are primarily about urban life.

·         Snapshot of America in the 1870s-1890s (PDF) – This provides a searchable resource, with sections shown in class.
What are you looking for? 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.

·         Without answers for self-testing: Comparison of Knights of Labor and American Federation of Labor
With answers for observing patterns: Comparison with Answers. – What are you looking for? 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 with Tips and Links  - This is now a printable version with lines (like Quiz B)

·         Expansion as America is Transformed Internationally
Study Tool: Chronological Events of the 1893-1901 Era
What are you looking for? 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.)

·         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

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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