Timeline (Pgs. 462-463)

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Timeline (Pgs. 462-463)

1. (a) Name two American events during the decade
   1850-1860 that relate to the conflict over
   slavery. (b) Explain how these events might
   have set the stage for the Civil War.
2. (a) What key Civil War event occurred in 1863?
   (b) What does this event suggest about the
   course of the war?
3. (a) Looking at both American and World Events,
   name two key sporting events that occurred during
   the decade of 1870-1880. (b) What is the
   importance of these events to us today?
4. (a) What important battle was fought by America
   in 1890? (b) In what way did this battle
   indicate that the frontier period was ending?
5. (a) Name two developments in transportation that
   occurred during the early 1900s. (b) What
   impact did these developments have?

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Timeline (Pgs. 462-463)Critical Viewing

• What doest the portrait of Frederick Douglass
  suggest about the writers character? Explain.
• What details in the picture of the Statue of
  Liberty (1886) suggest that its dedication was a
  festive occasion?
• Which has more in common with its modern
  replacement, the first plane (1903) or the first
  mass-produced car (1908)?

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Division, Reconciliation, and Expansion (464-471)

1. What major transformation did America undergo in
   the years between 1850-1914?
2. In what way did the Civil War surprise both
   sides?
3. What three factors combined to transform the West
   in the years after the Civil War?
4. Why did Mark Twain call the late 1800s The
   Gilded Age?

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Division, Reconciliation, and Expansion (464-471)

• Critical Thinking-
• 1. Why was literature such an important part of
  the conflict?
• If America had been a smaller country, without a
  frontier, how might its history have been
  different?
• What were drawbacks to Americas
  industrialization and expansion?

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Division, Reconciliation, and Expansion (464-471)

• Literature of the Period-
• What sources provide a detailed record of the
  Civil War from the perspective of those who
  experienced it?
• What are two qualities that make Lincolns
  speeches and letters so memorable?
• Which region of the country most influenced Mark
  Twains colorful language and use of humorous
  exaggeration?
• (a) In literature, what is Realism? (b) What
  event turned American writers toward Realism?
• (a) Which literary movement was an offshoot of
  Realism? (b) What did writers in this new
  movement attempt to do?