Civil wars in the South
Using the presentation, textbook, WEB Du Bois and Washington annotation, clips from Birth of a Nation, and the D2L documents for Reconstruction, respond to TWO of the following questions with a short answer of one or two paragraphs in length. You should reference specific evidence or documents to support what you say.
- How did the South feel after the loss in the Civil War and the changes brought by the end of slavery?
- Was Reconstruction a failure or success, and why?
Unit 1: Westward Expansion and Imperialism Using the textbook, the documents from the newspaper headline activity, and the political cartoons, respond to THREE of the following questions with a short answer of one or two paragraphs in length. You should reference specific evidence or documents to support what you say.
- Who was going West and why? Where did they go and what was life like for them?
- How did the nation think of Native Americans and how did that affect what happened to them?
- What questions did the United States have to ask itself about expanding after the West was closed? How did we answer them?
Unit 1: The Industrial Revolution, the Gilded Age, and the Progressive Era
Using the textbook, the presentations, the Social Darwinism videos, and the primary source documents from the American Yawp, respond to THREE of the following questions with a short answer of one or two paragraphs in length. You should reference specific evidence or documents to support what you say.
- What made the Industrial Revolution possible, and what changes did it cause in the economy?
- What were the different points of view about the poor and immigrants and how they should be treated?
- Who were the Progressives and in what areas were they successful in achieving some reforms?
http://www.americanyawp.com/text/20-the-progressiv… (Progressives Era)
http://www.americanyawp.com/text/15-reconstruction… (Reconstruction)
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