HIS 315L UNIT 1 STUDY GUIDE
HOW TO USE THE STUDY GUIDE
This study guide is designed to help guide your learning for this unit. Use this structure to generate and
organize terms, ideas, questions, and your own key insights from each lesson.
As you read, discover, and learn from your course materials, you should continue to add information and
evidence from each lesson, and to record your responses to each unit question. By the end of the unit, the
work you do in this guide will become a thorough review sheet that you can use to develop strong and wellsupported exam essays.
PART 1: ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
Before you start your reading for this unit, take a look at the following questions. These questions are
important, because they are the broad questions that summarize each day’s lesson. As you read, try to identify
information and evidence that can help you answer each question. When you find key passages, note the page
numbers and sources, so that you can access this information easily later for studying and assessments.
Questions  | Citation
Directions: Preview these questions before reading.  | Directions: Note page
numbers and sources from
your readings or the Crash
Course videos.
To what extent were African-Americans freed by the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?
What forces shaped freed slaves’ lives during Reconstruction and the latter 19th
century? | https://www.loc.gov/exhib
its/african-american
odyssey/reconstruction.ht
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The second half of the 19th century is almost always referred to as a period of laissez
faire. Assess the role of federal, state, and local government in the economy of the
period. | https://www.independent.
org/news/article.asp?
id=1390
Describe the attitudes toward wealth and poverty in the Gilded Age. How did these
attitudes shape government policy and societal institutions in the period? | https://www.khanacademy
.org/humanities/us
history/the-gilded
age/gilded-age/a/social
darwinism-in-the-gilded
age
How did the belief that the frontier had closed by the 1890s shape American
domestic policy in that decade and into the 20th century? | https://www.apstudynotes.
org/us-history/topics/end
of-the-frontier/
How did the belief that the frontier had closed by the 1890s shape American foreign
policy in that decade and into the 20th century? | https://www.historians.org
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EXPERIENCE COLLEGE BEFORE COLLEGE
HIS 315KL
archives/the-significance
of-the-frontier-in
american-historyPART 2: INTRODUCTORY TERMS AND IDEAS
To prepare for the beginning of the unit quiz, read and watch all assigned material in Lesson 1. Write the
definition, time period and/or date, and historical significance of each term in the space provided, and connect
each term to a course Big Idea (American Identities, Reform and Renewal, Self and Society, Labor and
Technology, America in the World). The time period and dates will help you to construct historical chronologies
in Part 4 of this guide.
Terms  | Time Period
and/or
Date(s) | Definition and Significance  | Course
Big Idea
13th Amendment
April 8, 1864  | Stated; “Abolished slavery and involuntary
servitude in the United States except punishment of
crime.” This officially ended slavery and made it
illegal. | Self and
Society
14th Amendment
July 9, 186  | This gave everyone born in the united states the
right, and will, to be an American citizen. And
basically, everyone had human rights | Self and
Society
15th Amendment
February 3,
1870 | All citizens have the right to vote, no matter what
race or color. (except women) | Self and
Society
American Federation
of Labor
1886  | Leader Samuel Gompers, led the AFL, during the
American Labor Movement in protest for better
wages, better working conditions, and stop child
labor. | Self and
Society/
american
identities
Alexander Graham
Bell
Mar 3, 1847-
Aug 2, 1922 | A Scottish- American inventor, scientist, and
engineer. Famous for the co-founder of the
American Telephone and Telegraph Company in
1885 | American
identities
Black Codes
1865-1866  | Also called Black Laws, were passed to govern the
newly freed blacks. Its significance was even
though they were just freed, their freedom was
restricted, and their labor wages were low. | Reform and
Renewal
Booker T. Washington Apr 5, 1856-
Nov 14,
1915 | Booker Taliaferro Washington is an American
educator, author, orator, and an advisor to multiple
presidents. He was a famous in the African
American Community and an black elite. | American
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