riefly describe the culture and society of Native Americans of the Great Plains and the nature of hostilities between these people and the U.S. government.

Essay Questions for History 1302

 

1. Essay on lectures and assigned readings
2. Give an overall assessment of Reconstruction. Be sure to include a discussion of the Presidential and the Congressional plans for Reconstruction. In your essay, include an analysis of the fate of the former slaves.
3. Briefly describe the culture and society of Native Americans of the Great Plains and the nature of hostilities between these people and the U.S. government. Be sure to include a discussion of the Battle of the Little Big Horn and the personalities of the two main leaders. How might we assess the conclusion of hostilities on the Great Plains?

 

3. Explain the rapid industrialization that transformed the American economy from approximately the 1870s to the beginning of the 20^th century. Be sure to place this phenomenon into the historical context of urbanization, the growth of cities, and immigration, as well as the political consequences.

 

4. Assess the development of national politics during the Gilded Age (1877-1900). Compare and contrast the Democratic and Republican Parties during this time. In your assessment, be sure to discuss the Populist movement and its political influence and consequences.

 

5. Give an overall analysis of the consequences of industrialization of the nature of work and workers. How did workers respond? How did business owners respond? Analyze the success and failure of American labor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

 

6. Define and discuss the Progressive movement. What was it and what was it in response to? Who made up the Progressive movement? What were their goals and how successful were they? Give specific examples of progressive legislation, as well as the role of Roosevelt and Wilson as progressive presidents.

History 1302 Terms

Essay #1

Abraham Lincoln

The 10% Plan

Reconstruction

The Emancipation Proclamation

The Thirteenth Amendment

The Wade-Davis Bill

Iron Clad Oaths

Thaddeus Stevens

Civil Rights Act of 1866

The Fourteenth Amendment

The Fifteenth Amendment

Andrew Johnson

Black Codes

Freedmen’s Bureau

KKK

Tenure of Office Act

Compromise of 1877

 

 

Essay #2

Native American Tribes on the Great Plains

Indian communal ownership of Land

Col. John Chivington

Black Kettle

Sand Creek Massacre

The Bozeman Trail

Red Cloud

Fetterman’s Massacre

The Treaty of Fort Laramie

Black Hills

Sitting Bull

George A. Custer

The Little Big Horn

Chief Joseph

The Ghost Dance

Wovoka

Wounded Knee

 

 

Essay #3

Industrialization

Urbanization

Old Immigrants

New Immigrants

WASP

Nativism

Ghettos

Machine Politics

Boss Tweed

Effects of Transcontinental RR

Process of Industrialization

Andrew Carnegie

John D. Rockefeller

Standard Oil

Oligopoly

Social Darwinism

The Gospel of Wealth

 

 

Essay #4

Gilded Age Politics

Retrenchment

Grover Cleveland

Depression of 1893

Protective Tariff

Free Silver

Populism/Populist Party

Mary Lease

Tom Watson

Wizard of Oz

William Jennings Bryan

Election of 1896

 

 

Essay #5

Knights of Labor

Terence Powderly

Haymarket Riot 1886

Eugene Debs

American Federation of Labor (AFL)

Samuel Gompers

Homestead Strike 1892

Pullman Strike 1894

American Railroad Union

Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

 

 

Essay #6

Progressivism

Muckraker

Upton Sinclair

The Jungle

Pure Food and Drug Act

Meat Inspection Act

Social Gospel Movement

16^th amendment (Income tax)

17^th Amendment (Direct election of Senators)

Federal Reserve Act

Prohibition

18^th Amendment

Women’s Suffrage Movement

19^th Amendment

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Teddy Roosevelt

Square Deal

Trust Buster

 

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