Crossroads:
Middle School Curriculum

Unit VII: What, Then, Is This American? 1865-1900

Question 1: In what ways did the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments exemplify the ideals of Reconstruction?

Question 2: What were the political, economic, and social reasons for the failure of the Reconstruction?

Question 3: What was it like to live under segregation?

Question 4: What was the West like for miners, cattlemen and homesteaders?

Question 5: What was the impact of westward expansion on Indians?

Question 6: What were the major inventions and new technologies of the late 1800s?

Question 7: Were industrial leaders "captains of industry" or "robber barons?"

Question 8: What pushed immigrants from their homelands and pulled them to the United States

Question 9: What effects did immigrants have on the United States

Question 10: Describe the working conditions in factories in the late 19th centrury

Question 11: How did workers react to working conditions in the late 19th century

Question 12: Describe America at the close of the 19th century

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