HIST 1302 Brookhaven College American Constitutional Amendments Questions
Question Description
Part I: Short Answer (6 x 10 points each = 60 points)
You must pick SIX short answers out of ten total options to answer. These are very specific questions that can be answered with responses no longer than 3-4 sentences. Responses should be a minimum of half a page in length, typed and double-spaced.
- Identify and explain the three Reconstruction Constitutional Amendments.
- Explain the basic details of President Andrew Johnsons impeachment trial.
- Explain how Reconstruction changed and did not change the status of African Americans in the U.S.
- Explain the causes of the economic boom of the late 19th Century that was known as the Gilded Age.
- Explain the circumstances during the Gilded Age that led to the creation of the largest corporations the U.S. had ever seen.
- Identify and explain the various elements of the Mississippi Plan that began the process of disenfranchising African Americans in 1890.
- Explain the two main parts of Jim Crow and their impact on the South.
- Explain Nativism in the U.S. and how that related to the immigration waves of 1870-1910.
- Explain Populism and how it impacted U.S. politics in the 1890s.
- Explain the origins of the organized labor movement and how it impacted the Gilded Age.
Part II: Essay (40 points)
You must pick ONE of these questions to answer. Essays should be a minimum of 2 pages in length, typed and double-spaced.
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