February 6th, 2020 
- What was the Compromise of 1877? How did it end the Reconstruction Era?
- What were the political implications of Ku Klux Klan terrorism?
- Explain the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution. How did it transform the role of the federal government?
- How did efforts to extract natural resources transform the American West in the second half of the nineteenth century?
- Who were the women of the western frontier? What motivations drove their efforts? What impact did they have?
- What was “Social Darwinism”? How was it used to justify the growth in economic inequality?
- What were political machines? How did they operate within major cities?
- How were baseball and football at the center of new leisure and mass culture in the late 1800s?
- How did the United States go from a technological borrower to a technological innovator in the second half of the nineteenth century?
- Explain “Freedom of Contract,” and how it was used by employers to justify their policies.
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