Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Unit 6 Essay Questions

Unit 6-Gilded Age Free Response Essay Topics 2011




Directions: You will be given two of the following four essay prompts on the Unit 6 exam. On the AP Exam in may you will be advised to spend 5 minutes planning and 30 minutes writing your answer. By receiving the prompts now, there should be no guess work. I expect planning to be done in the days leading up to the exam. Cite relevant historical evidence in support of your generalizations and present your arguments clearly and logically.



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



2. Explain why and how the role of the federal government changes as a result of the Civil War with respect to TWO of the following during the period 1861-1877.



Race relations

Economic development

Westward expansion



3. Explain how TWO 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



4. For whom and to what extent was the American West a land of opportunity from 1865 to 1890.

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