America’s History: Printed Page 537
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| REVIEW QUESTIONS | Answer these questions to demonstrate your understanding of the chapter’s main ideas. |
What national policies did Republicans pursue during the Civil War and Reconstruction to stimulate economic growth and consolidate a continental empire? What were the resulting achievements and costs?
How did the trans-Mississippi west develop economically in this era? What problems and conflicts resulted?
Why did U.S. policies toward Native Americans in this era result in so much violence? Why did armed struggle continue as late as 1890, despite the U.S. “peace policy” that was proclaimed in the 1870s?
THEMATIC UNDERSTANDING Review the events listed under “Peopling” on the thematic timeline. Between the 1840s and the 1870s, what distinctive patterns of racial and ethnic conflict occurred along the northeastern seaboard and in the West? What were the results for immigrants in the Northeast, and for different ethnic and racial groups in the West?