General essay

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Chapters 15-19 in Unfinished Nation by Brinkley

You will answer all ten questions. Please take your time when answering. Your answer WILL BE TWO paragraphs in length, summarizing your knowledge of the issue in a concise, logical manner (points will be taken off if it is under this!!!) Watch your grammar and spelling. You can use the text as a SECONDARY source to back up your answer. It cannot be your full answer. What I mean is you can use the notes, the text and such as a guide. For example, the first four sentences will be your answer. The last four would be the quote backing up your answer. Also, cite that quote. I need to know you understand the material, not what others are saying.

1- Why was the period from late eighteen hundreds to the early twentieth century called the “Gilded Age”? What was Credit Mobilier?

2- How was the demise of the Granger Laws related to the passage of the Interstate Commerce Act? Why was the ICC so ineffective?
3- What organizations/clubs helped to politically organize women during the Progressive Era?
4-How did the foreign immigrants of the 1890s and later differ from most of the earlier immigrants? What attracted them to the United States?
5- Who was Woodrow Wilson? What made him so different from other candidates in past elections?
6- Why did the US want a canal through the Isthmus of Panama? How did the US go about gaining control of the land necessary to build the Panama Canal?
7- What was Reconstruction? In your mind, did it succeed or fail?
8-What was Social Darwinism? Why is it important?
9- Why was President Taft’s foreign policy called “Dollar Diplomacy?”
10- What were America’s motives for going to war with Spain in 1898?

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