UNITED STATES HISTORY SINCE 1865
1. How did Presidents Lincoln and Johnson envision Reconstruction? Were there differences? Similarities?
2. Why specifically and in general was Andrew Johnson impeached? How might Reconstruction and US history have been different had he been removed from office?
3. Were Freed men given land after the Civil War? Explain. Why didn't the North divide up the plantations amongst those who had worked it for free for so long? What impact did that have on their place and future in the US?
4. Why did Reconstruction end? Who benefitted most from the end of Reconstruction?
5. How did new technologies affect the settlement and economic exploitation of the West?
6. How did the lives of women in the West compare and contrast with men in the West and with women elsewhere? Why?
7. What was the US government policy toward Native Americans from 1865 to 1900? How and why did it change and what worked and what didn't? Why?