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 * Essay 1** -- Evaluate the impact of the Civil War on political and economic developments in each of the following regions: the North, the South, the West. Focus your answer on the period between 1865 and 1900. [Unit 5]


 * Essay 2** -- Analyze the economic consequences of the Civil War with respect to each of the following in the United States between 1865 and 1900: agriculture, labor, industrialization, transportation. [Unit 5]


 * Essay 3** -- Analyze the ways in which farmers and industrial workers responded to industrialization in the Gilded Age (1865-1900).


 * Essay 4** -- How successful was organized labor in improving the position of workers in the period from 1875 to 1900? Analyze the factors that contributed to the level of success achieved.


 * Essay 5** -- How were the lives of the Plains Indians in the second half of the nineteenth century affected by technological developments and government actions?


 * Essay 6** -- Analyze the reasons for the emergence of the Populist movement in the late nineteenth century.


 * Essay 7** -- Analyze the impact of each of the following on the American industrial worker between 1865 and 1900: government actions, immigration, labor unions, technological changes.


 * Essay 8** -- How and why did transportation developments spark economic growth during the period from 1860 to 1900 in the United States?


 * Essay 9** -- Identify and analyze the factors that changed the American city in the second half of the nineteenth century. [Unit 7]


 * Essay 10** -- Analyze the primary causes of the population shift from a rural to an urban environment in the United States between 1875 and 1925. [Units 7 and 8]


 * Essay 11** -- For whom and to what extent was the American West a land of opportunity from 1865 to 1890?


 * Essay 12** -- Explain how each of the following individuals responded to the economic and social problems created by industrialization during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: Jane Addams, Andrew Carnegie, Samuel Gompers, Upton Sinclair. [Unit 7]


 * Essay 13** -- For each of the following organizations, explain their strategies for advancing the interests of workers: Knights of Labor, American Federation of Labor, Socialist Party of America, Industrial Workers of the World. To what extent were these organizations successful in achieving their objectives? Confine your answer to the period from 1875 to 1925. [Units 7 and 8]


 * Essay 14** -- Following Reconstruction, many southern leaders promoted the idea of a "New South." To what extent was this "New South" a reality by the time of the First World War? In your answer be sure to address each of the following: economic development, politics, race relations. [Units 5 and 7]


 * Essay 15** -- "Although the economic growth of the United States between 1860 and 1900 has been attributed to a governmental policy of laissez-faire, it was in fact encouraged and sustained by direct government intervention." Assess the validity of this statement. [Unit 7]


 * Essay 16** -- "From the 1840s through the 1890s, women's activities in the intellectual, social, economic, and political spheres effectively challenged traditional attitudes about women's place in society." Assess the validity of this statement. [Units 4, 5, and 7]


 * Essay 17** -- Analyze the ways in which technology, government policy, and economic conditions changed American agriculture in the period 1865 to 1900.