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

 

About Units and Parts

 To make your work manageable, each Unit is divided into 3 smaller time periods, or Parts.  For example, Unit 1 is divided into Part A, Part B, and Part C, each with its own major theme and its own quiz (Quiz A, Quiz B, and Quiz C). .

 

What Does Unit 1 Cover?

Unit 1 focuses on how America changes from the 1860s to 1900. It covers how history changes:

 

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.

What Do You Read and Do?

 

What Iss the Theme Covered and What Are the Chapters You Should Read Over

What Interactive Study Guide Shows You What You Need to Read in Those Chapters?

What Quiz to You Do for 10 Points

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)

 

Quiz A Check Your Knowledge quiz 

Quiz A

·         1860-1877 Quick Reference on the Civil War and Reconstruction. – Includes essential content prior to Chapter 16 
Same content if you want to print it

·         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:

·         Key Parts of the Missouri Compromise including the tally of Senators and Representatives in 1820.

·         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

Part B: Gilded Age Transformations

 

Chapters 17, 18

 

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

·         Quiz B Without Tips – Use this version to decide your answers before you take the online quiz.

 

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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

·         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. The differences determine which organization will survive.

Part C: Turmoil and Expansion

 

Chapters 19

 

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

·         Quiz C Without Tips – Use this version to decide your answers before you take the online quiz.

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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
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.)

 

 

What Are the Writing Assignments for Unit 1?

Unit 1 also includes an Introductory Comparison (1860s-1877) and a Comparison ending Unit 1 (1860s-1900). You will find the possible topics and the required readings for each one in several locations such as:

What Are the Objective (Usually Multiple Choice) Assignments for Unit 1?

 

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

 

 

What Chapters to Read?

How to Know What to Read?

How to Find Content and Visuals to Help You Understand the History?

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Parts in the Unit and Chapter #s

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 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 With Tips for Locating Information – Use this version for tips and download it to record as you learn. (Record such things as what you missed and why, the textbook page numbers where you found information, and what quiz questions are also part of Comparison Topics.)

·         Quiz A Without Tips for Locating Information – Use this version to decide your answers before you take the online 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.)

Optional Reference: Key Parts of the Missouri Compromise including the tally of Senators and Representatives in 1820.

·         1860-1877 Quick Reference on the Civil War and Reconstruction. – Includes essential content prior to Chapter 16 
Same content if you want to print it

·         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:

·         Key Parts of the Missouri Compromise including the tally of Senators and Representatives in 1820.

·         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

Part B: Gilded Age Transformations

 

Chapters 17, 18

 

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

·         Quiz B Without Tips – Use this version to decide your answers before you take the online quiz.

 

·         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

·         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. The differences determine which organization will survive.

Part C: Turmoil and Expansion

 

Chapters 19

 

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

·         Quiz C Without Tips – Use this version to decide your answers before you take the online quiz.

·         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
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. We will compare those same areas 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

 

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

 

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.

 

 

 

 

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