HIST 102: Chapter 16 Reading Guide

Give Me Liberty! An American History Vol 2 Brief Edition

Instructions

This reading guide is designed to help you understand and answer the Review Questions found on Page 511. This assessment also verifies your active reading of Chapter 16. For each question below, please follow these steps:

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Review Question 1

On Page 477, find the sentence beginning with the words: "It enacted high..."

Type the entire sentence verbatim here to identify the evidence:

The American economy thrived because of federal involvement, not the lack of it. How did the federal government actively promote industrial and agricultural development in this period?

Review Question 2

On Page 479, find the sentence beginning with the words: "The railroads reorganized..."

Type the entire sentence verbatim here to identify the evidence:

Why were railroads so important to America's second industrial revolution? What events demonstrate their influence on society and politics as well as the economy?

Review Question 4

On Page 485, (Under the "Social Darwinism in America" section), find the sentence beginning with the words: "According to what..."

Type the entire sentence verbatim here to identify the evidence:

How do the ideas of Henry George, Edward Bellamy, and other authors conflict with Social Darwinism?

Review Question 5

On Page 490, (Under the "A Social Gospel" section), find the sentence beginning with the words: "They insisted that..."

Type the entire sentence verbatim here to identify the evidence:

How did social reformers such as Edward Bellamy, Henry George, and advocates of the Social Gospel movement conceive of liberty and freedom differently than the proponents of the liberty of contract ideal?

Review Question 3

On Page 491, (Under the "Labor and Politics" section), find the sentence beginning with the words: "Facing increasing employer..."

Type the entire sentence verbatim here to identify the evidence:

Why did organized efforts of farmers, workers, and local reformers largely fail to achieve substantive change in the Gilded Age?

Review Question 6

On Page 492, find the sentence beginning with the words: "Ever since the..."

Type the entire sentence verbatim here to identify the evidence:

In what ways did the West provide a "safety valve" for the problems in the industrial East? In what ways did it reveal some of the same problems?

Review Question 7

On Page 494, find the sentence beginning with the words: "Farm families became..."

Type the entire sentence verbatim here to identify the evidence:

Describe the involvement of American family farmers in the global economy after 1870 and its effects on their independence.

Review Question 8

On Page 500, (Under the "The Dawes Act" section), find the sentence beginning with the words: "The crucial step..."

Type the entire sentence verbatim here to identify the evidence:

How did American political leaders seek to remake Native Americans and change the ways they lived?

Review Question 9

On Page 501, (Under the "Are Native Americans American?" section), find the sentence beginning with the words: "Many laws and..."

Type the entire sentence verbatim here to identify the evidence:

What were some of the obstacles that made it difficult for Native Americans to claim American citizenship in the nineteenth century?