Unit 6: Gilded Age (1865-1900)
Identify one historical development that led to Westward Expansion after the Civil War and provide one piece of historical evidence that reflects this development.
- Homestead Act of 1862
- Kansas Cowtowns and cattle trade
Industrial Revolution & need for resources
- Construction of Railroads
- Mining in Western territories/states
Identify ONE of the reforms advocated by Progressives for each category:
Political reform-
Economic reform-
Social reform-
Political reforms-
- Direct election of senators (17th Amendment)
- Womens' Suffrage
- Ballot initiatives and recalls
Economic reforms-
- Federal Reserve Act, 1913
- Clayton Antitrust Act, 1914
- Meat Inspection Act
- Pure Food and Drug Act
Social reform-
- Settlement Houses (Hull House)
- Florence Kelly
Identify ONE effect of innovations in manufacturing and communications in the 1920s. Provide one piece of historical evidence to support your argument
- Radio and cinema contributing to a national culture
- Increased manufacturing of consumer goods
- Proliferation of automobiles.
Identify ONE way American policy towards the Soviet Union changed and ONE one of the continuities in American policy between 1945 and 1980.
Continuities
- Policy of containment
- Geopolitical and cultural competition
- Covert wars and coups (Iran, Latin America)
Change
- Eisenhower's "Massive retaliation"
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Detente (relaxation of tensions)
- Disarmament
- SALT I Treaty
- Nixon opening of China
Identify ONE consequence of the Vietnam War.
- Sowed division among Americans
- emboldened the Counterculture movement
- New Left
- Ended peacetime draft
- Growing distrust of government
How did the lives of African Americans change between 1865 and 1900? Provide one piece of historical evidence to back up your claim.
Black codes
13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
Radical Reconstruction
Freedmen's Bureau
Colfax Massacre
Jim Crow laws
Literacy tests
Plessy V. Ferguson
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What was the longterm POLITICAL consequence of the Great Depression and the New Deal. Provide one specific piece of evidence to support your claim.
FDR and New Deal Liberalism transformed the US into a limited welfare state.
Identify ONE historical example of the Second Red Scare.
- House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
- McCarthyism
- Hollywood Blacklist
- Alger Hiss
- Trial of the Rosenbergs
- McCarren Internal Security Act
- the energy crisis
- Stagflation
- Experience of Vietnam War
- Backlash to Liberalism and Counterculture of the 1960s.
CONTINUITY AND CHANGE
Identify one way the relationship between Native tribes and Whites changed between 1800 and 1900.
Also, describe a similarity between 1800 and 1900.
Provide specific historical evidence for both.
Indian Removal
Grant's "Peace Policy" vs. extermination
Extinction of the buffalo
Reservation system
Assimilation and Boarding Schools
Describe ONE cause and ONE effect of the Progressive Movement between 1900 and 1920. Please provide specific piece of historical evidence for each.
Causes
- Harmful social effects of unchecked capitalism
- Political corruption
- Social gospel
Effects
- Expansion of government power and influence.
- Greater rights for Women
Briefly explain ONE similarity and ONE difference between Americans' attitudes towards involvement in WW1 and WW2.
- non-interventionist at first
- make the "world safe for democracy"
- suppression of civil liberties
Differences-
- views on German-Americans
- Fight for survival in addition to democracy
- Americans accepted their role in foreign affairs.
Identify ONE cause of the postwar economic boom between 1945 and 1970 and ONE consequence.
CAUSES
- GI Bill (education & housing)
- Baby Boom (cause or consequence)
- Defense industry
- America as the lone global economic power
CONSEQUENCES
- Baby Boom
- Suburbanization
- Adoption of new consumer goods
- Youth culture
- Civil Rights Movement???
Identify ONE way the presidency of Ronald Reagan changed American politics after 1980.
- "Supply-Side Economics" - deep cuts to government services
- Rejected the policy of containment
- Reversed Detente
- Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
- actively engaged in military interventions across the globe.
- Invasion of Grenada
- Embraced elements of the New Right and the Culture War.
Describe the relationship between Gilded Age business & politics. Provide one piece of historical evidence to support your claim.
Tammany Hall, political machines and Machine Politics
Trusts and Monopolies
- Standard Oil
Robber Barons
- JP Morgan
- Andrew Carnegie
Credit Mobilier Scandal
Identify ONE way imperialists justified American expansion and empire between 1890 and 1910.
- Social darwinism
- "White Man's Burden"
- "Closing of the Frontier"
- Access to foreign markets and resources
Describe ONE way the United States was transformed by participation in World War II. Please provide one piece of specific historical evidence.
- Industrial production (Arsenal of Democracy)
- Movement to cities from farms
- Great Migration
- Double V and Civil Rights
- Bracero Program (deeper ties to Mexico)
- GI Bill (education for servicemen)
Identify the POLITICAL, SOCIAL, and CULTURAL origins of the Civil Rights Movement.
Political
- NAACP's court challenges to segregation
- Brown v. Board
- Double V campaign
- Desegregation of armed forces
- New Deal Coalition?
Social
- Great Migration
- Post-war prosperity
Cultural
- Harlem Renaissance
- Importance of Black churches
After the Cold War, Identify ONE historical development or event that challenged America's global power.
- Gulf War
- Balkan Wars
- 9/11
- Invasion of Iraq
- 2008 Financial Crisis
What was one reason for the emergence of the Farmers Alliance and/or Populist Party in the 1870s-1890s?
- Decline in wheat, corn, and cotton prices.
- Farmers defaulting on mortgages
- Railroad monopolies charging exorbitant fees to transport crops.
- Elimination of the Gold Standard
Describe ONE cause and ONE consequence of American involvement in World War I.
Please provide a piece of historical evidence for each.
CAUSE-
- unrestricted submarine warfare
- Zimmerman Telegram
CONSEQUENCES
-Restrictions on freedom of speech
- Espionage and Sedition Acts
- Committee on Public Information
- Expansion of size and scope of federal government
- Great Migration of African Americans
- Backlash against immigrants
Identify the major consequence related to world affairs of US participation in World War II. Please provide a specific piece of evidence to back up your argument.
- US emergence as a global power.
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Confrontation with the Soviet Union and start of Cold War
- Potsdam Conference
Explain how the Civil Rights Movement changed between 1960 and 1970.
Provide a piece of historical evidence to back up your argument.
- Non-Violence
- SNCC
- Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC)
- Freedom Rides
- Civil Rights Act (1964)
- Long Hot Summer of 1967
- Assassination of MLK (1968)
- Malcom X and Nation of Islam
- "Ballot or the bullet"
- Black Nationalism
- Black Panthers
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