Unit 1 Study Guide – a
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Table of Contents:
Temporary
Link to the Possible Questions for the Written Exam
How
to Use the Equivalent of Endnotes for the Unit 1 and 2 Written Exams
Practical
Issues That Students Frequently Want to Know about the Unit Objective and
Written Exams
Specific
Tips for Each Chapter
If someone posts in Students Helping Students with History
for Unit 1 that he or she wants to see a link to possible questions for the
Unit 1 Written Exam, I will place that link here.
Someone did post. Click here to see the Unit 1 Written questions.
Two links that might help you are:
·
Why
Endnotes Should Be a Lifetime Skill And a Before- and After-correction Student
Example. – This would not have been possible without a kind student (one
who can now do much stronger work). It also shows you the difference between:
o
The equivalent of endnotes used for a Unit
Written Exam
o
Actual endnotes created with Microsoft Word for
the Analysis of Primaries
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General
requirements for Unit Written Exams
The content for Unit 1 covers Chapter 16 through Chapter 19. Reminder: one of the quizzes in Evidence Matters is part of the questions on Unit 1 Objective Exam.
With Unit 1, you do both an Objective and Written part of the Exam. Click here for information that is the same for all Unit Exams. This link covers:
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For both Objective and Written parts of the
Unit exam, the source of content, the number of questions and the point value,
how the questions are in sets in Blackboard and what a set is.
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For the Written Exam, what different about
written parts of the test and how you have choices within a question
1. Look for the inventions that mark this era both with products and with the rise of urban life
2. Examine the growth of railroads.
3. Examine device, new inventions
4. Examine
the rise of corporations in what industries and how they gained power over competitors and state government
(including how they used the law to stop state legislatures from regulating
corporations that they created)
Tips:
· Look for the words trust and holding company
·
What is written below is something that I am
used to seeing in some form in most textbooks and these facts tend to help
students understand. Favor: If you
find this information in your textbook, please email me the page number(s).
At this time in history, the process was that state legislatures gave the
authority for a business to have the rights of a corporation, including limited
liability for their actions. New Jersey was one of the states most favorable to
corporations. Here’s a simple example of liability:
- If you were the sole proprietor of a store and someone got hurt because of
your actions and sued you, you could lose your business and your home and your
other personal assets.
- If you were incorporated, you lost only your investment in the business.
· Look at the terms horizontal and vertical integration and who did them
5. Look at industrial capitalists and the famous financial capitalist
6. Look at the relationship between government and robber barons. It will be no surprise that there is a growing movement during the Gilded Age (and notice that term) to clean up this mess.
7. Examine the robber barons, the middle class, and varied poor in the working class—including injuries, death rate, and child labor
8. Examine the attempts of working people to organize, including the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor
9. Notice the famous strikes covered in this period, including businesses having their own private army (wow!) and what government did
1. Notice the term the New South
2. Examine the South’s industries, poverty, and agriculture (especially the crop-lien system)
3. Notice
what happened to African Americans after
1890
Caution: notice the dates are in the
1890s and things change from what had happened in some areas of the South
during Reconstruction and in the years after 1877 to 1890. For example, the information on Wilmington, North
Carolina shows you that in some areas African Americans both voted and held
office.
Notice: the Plessy case, voting, Jim
Crow, the Wilmington mob attack, and what lynching was.
If you disbelieve any of those sections of the textbook, use the Videos I have
added to Chapter 17 and the optional primaries in that chapter.
4. Notice the 2 quite different African American leaders: Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois
1. Notice the new west that is between the Mississippi and the Rockies
2. Notice the ways people make a living and how hard it is.
3. Notice what happens to women, both negatively and positively.
4. Notice
what happens to Native Americans and how they are treated in the Dawes
Severalty Act.
Tip: .Severalty means to own property as an
individual. This is the opposite of how Native Americans owned property—they
owned it as a tribe and they had the right to use the land but not cut it or
destroy it. This is a move to destroy the tribal structure. Further, as your
textbook adds, this policy resulted in the loss of 86 million of their prior
130 million acres.
5. Notice
the brief introduction to the Populists, the rise of the farmers in opposition
to this destruction new world.
Tip: .Since the time
of Jefferson, the farmers had been considered the foundation of the American
republic where people could support themselves and therefore vote for
themselves and the general welfare, not just vote as a boss might demand.
Reminder: we do not have the secret ballot yet. If you want confirmation, click
on the Smithsonian’s
link on the vote that failed and the rise of the secret ballot
1. Notice urbanization and how it spreads across the nation, including technologies, leisure, and the dangers such as the tenement.
2. Notice the “new immigration” and their traits. Also notice the first federal law to block an immigrant group—the Chinese Exclusion Act.
3. Notice Darwinism and—the creation of Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin—Social Darwinism. Also notice the counter voices of Lester Frank Ward—with more coming after 1900.
4.
Notice in general bossism, partisan politics and
local and national levels, and corruption. Notice the Pendleton Act for reform
of government jobs (civil service)
Tip: You will not
have to recognize each of these presidencies in what has been called an era
where the voters couldn’t tell the difference in their policies.
5. Notice the railroads and the Interstate Commerce Commission—a federal version of a method the farmers had gotten passed at the state level.
Tip: The Constitution makes Congress the power when it comes to commerce between states and railroads—to be of use—would have to cross between states. This commission form of government will become the model for regulation after 1900.
6. Notice the farmers’ problems and how they overlap with currency.
· Debtors want inflation—whether it is with more paper money or by coining a cheaper metal than gold (in other words, silver).
· Creditors want deflation—and they got what they wanted.
7. Notice the Farmers Alliance and how it became a 3rd party as the Populists and notice both the election of 1892 and the one in 1896.
1. Notice Alfred Thayer Mahon and what he observes.
2.
Notice Alaska and Hawaii and why the imperialism
in the Pacific.
Tip: Remember your U.S.
History I course. Empire means gaining territory that is a colony, one whose
people do not have the same rights as the mother country. The American
Revolution was against being a colony
of Great Britain.
3.
Notice the lead up the Spanish-American War, in
brief the war itself, and what the United States gets as colonies.
Caution: With Cuba use your index to
make sure you notice what both of these say:
· The Teller Amendment to the war declaration
· The Platt Amendment that eventually ends up as an amendment to the new Cuban Constitution and in a treaty (That section is not clearly written in the textbook but I can provide a copy of a specific source if anyone wants to see it.) Tip: One of its issues is a place called Guantanamo Bay.
4. Notice these basics of the war, including the Rough Riders and John Hay’s famous line.
5. Notice the Filipino resistance and the final outcome.
6. Notice the American Anti-Imperialist League.
7. Notice the Open Door policy and what it is.
8. After the assassination of William McKinley, notice the foreign policies of Theodore Roosevelt (a Republican)
9. Notice the foreign policies of his successors: William Howard Taft (a Republican) and Woodrow Wilson (a Democrat).
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