I need two essay done by 6:00pm today

Study Guide for Unit 3 Study these essay questions. Use the outline as a guide to keep you on track. The chapters associated with each essay are listed. For the test you will choose 2 of the essays. Let me know if you have any questions. Explain how life changed for African Americans in Reconstruction and through the Gilded Age into the Progressive Era? Be sure to use plenty of examples. Readings from Chapter 15 and 21

Reconstruction Freedom for African Americans What did this mean – how did their life change – how did it stay the same? Church, Schooling, Politics, jobs (sharecropping) Amendments Reaction by Whites Guided Age Disenfranchising African Americans

Establishing Seperate but Equal – 1883 cases, Plessy v. Ferguson

Progressive Era Lynching NAACP African American Leaders Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois Railroads changed many aspects in the United States during the Gilded Age. What are the changes and how did railroads make them? Readings from Chapters 16, 17, 18

West Government Big Business Big Business Administration Government Regulation Morganization Unions Strikes Grangers Mass Entertainment

How did labor change during the Gilded Age? What were the consequences of these changes? Readings from chapters 17, 18, 21 (mainly 18)

How change Work Wages Skills Labor Organizations Consequences Urbanization Tenements Machine Politics

Reform – Settlement Houses, Social Gospel (concentrate on reform more in next essay)

Immigration Nativism – explain this in detail

How was the Progressive Era a reaction to the Gilded Age? Readings from chapters 17, 18, 21

Industrialist in the Gilded Age – Power, no regulation, in charge … reaction in the Progressive Era – Muckrakers – Tarbell, Sinclair

Proletariat their life in the Gilded Age -- unsafe, crowded, neglected, Machine Politics (Tammany Hall) how viewed in Progressive Era – Enviromentalism (changing the environment) – Settlement House Movement, Social Gospel

Reform Movements What happened in the Gilded Age to inspire these reforms?

Temperance, Women’s Suffrage, Immigration restriction Essay 5 option I can give you a 5th option of tracing the Women’s movement – but it would mean you would have to read chapters before this unit. Let me know if you want me to add it.