HIS 315L UNIT 1 STUDY GUIDE
HOW TO USE THE STUDY GUIDE
This study guide is designed to help guide your learning for this unit. Use this structure to
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organize terms, ideas, questions, and your own key insights from each lesson.
As you read, discover, and learn from your course materials, you should continue to add information and
evidence from each lesson, and to record your responses to each unit question. By the end of the unit, the
work you do in this guide will become a thorough review sheet that you can use to develop strong and wellsupported exam essays.
PART 1: ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
Before you start your reading for this unit, take a look at the following questions. These questions are
important, because they are the broad questions that summarize each day’s lesson. As you read, try to identify
information and evidence that can help you answer each question. When you find key passages, note the page
numbers and sources, so that you can access this information easily later for studying and assessments.
Questions Citation
Directions: Preview these questions before reading. Directions: Note page
numbers and sources from
your readings or the Crash
Course videos.
To what extent were African-Americans freed by the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?
What forces shaped freed slaves’ lives during Reconstruction and the latter 19th
century?
https://www.loc.gov/exhib
its/african-americanodyssey/reconstruction.ht
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The second half of the 19th century is almost always referred to as a period of laissezfaire. Assess the role of federal, state, and local government in the economy of the
period.
https://www.independent.
org/news/article.asp?
id=1390
Describe the attitudes toward wealth and poverty in the Gilded Age. How did these
attitudes shape government policy and societal institutions in the period?
https://www.khanacademy
.org/humanities/ushistory/the-gildedage/gilded-age/a/socialdarwinism-in-the-gildedage
How did the belief that the frontier had closed by the 1890s shape American
domestic policy in that decade and into the 20th century?
https://www.apstudynotes.
org/us-history/topics/endof-the-frontier/
How did the belief that the frontier had closed by the 1890s shape American foreign
policy in that decade and into the 20th century?
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