Overview for Unit 1: Creating a New
America - How America Changed from the 1860s to 1900 |
To use the How-To videos and tips provided in the
Course Orientation, click on the links below:
Unit 1 focuses on how America changes from the
1860s to 1900. It is frequently called the Gilded
Age—Mark Twain’s term. The term golden
age is sometimes used for the highest point of a civilization, but gild is anything but golden. The word gild means a fake, shiny substance over
the cheapest metal. The Gilded Age was a period that was hard for many types of
ordinary people in America.
This Unit tries to show you how dramatically
history changes from 1860 to 1900:
To give you an idea of how much change
occurred, in most cases if you wrote about any of the items above, a
truth you said about 1865 could easily be false if you said it was still
true in 1899. Observing how we changed is a challenge, but it is key to understanding this period—and the times we live in
now. If history were a house, the Gilded Age is its basement and 1st
floor—the Gilded Age is the structural foundation of the period you live in.
To make
your work manageable, each Unit is divided into 3 smaller time periods, or
Parts. For example, this Unit 1 is divided into Part A, Part B, and Part C, each
its own maps and its own Check Your Knowledge quiz as an interactive study
guide and its own quiz for 10 points.
Part A: Reconstruction Abandoned; Beginning of the
Gilded Age Chapters 16-17 (also requires 1860-1877 Quick Reference on the
Civil War and Reconstruction) Interactive Study Guide That Shows What Facts Are
Covered from the Chapters: Quiz A – Check Your Knowledge* Quiz at the End of Part A: Quiz A - For 10 Points |
Part B: Gilded Age Transformations Chapters 17,
18 Interactive Study Guide That Shows What Facts Are
Covered from the Chapters: Quiz B – Check Your Knowledge* Quiz at the End of Part B: Quiz B - For 10 Points |
Part C: Turmoil and Expansion Chapters 19 Interactive Study Guide That Shows What Facts Are
Covered from the Chapters: Quiz C – Check Your Knowledge* Quiz at the End of Part C: Quiz C - For 10 Points |
Unit 1 also includes two Comparisons:
Both are available from the Unit 1’s
“"Everything You Need for This Unit (except the maps)" and from
Comparison Topics on the Course Menu. The resources for these Comparisons and
the Turnitin Assignments are available if you click
on Learning Modules and then on the folder Introductory Comparison Assignment
(1860s-1877) and Comparison Assignment for Unit 1 (1860s-1900).
Unit 1 has an objective exam
consisting of 40 multiple choice questions. The questions on the exam are
pulled from the questions for Quiz A, Quiz B, and Quiz C.
Copyright C. J. Bibus, Ed.D. 2003-2014 |
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History – Dr. Bibus |
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281.239.1577 or bibusc@wcjc.edu |
Last Updated: |
2014 |
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