Potential LEQ Topics
| Monday, 1 January 0001 | |
| 2-minute read | |
| 214 words | |
Triangular Trade
Causes
- Desire for goods/trade (economic)
- Desire to develop colonies (political)
- Demand for slave labor
Effects
- Introduction of new crops
- Development of colonies
- Further demand for slave labor
- Exchange of culture
Market Revolution
- Causes and effects are mostly similar; you can interchange causes and effects unless asked to compare the causes and effects
Causes
- Rapid improvements of transportation and communication
- Industrial machines and inventions
- Increased federal power
Effects
- Economic growth (economical)
- Emergence of middle class (social)
Increased federal power as regional markets shift to national markets (political)
- Railroads
Gilded Age
Causes
- Industrial Revolution
- Laissez-faire economics
- Advances in technology
- Emergence of middle class
Effects
Social reform - strikes (economic)
- Knights of Labor
- Homestead Strike
- Political corruption and political machines
- Emergence of middle class (social)
- More immigrants (social)
Civil War
Causes of the Civil War 1830-1850
- Dred Scott v. Sandford
Sectionalism
- Compromise of 1850
- Popular sovereignty
Increased federal power
- Tariff of 1832 and Force Bills
Causes of Union Victory
Better economy
- Industrial vs. agricultural economy
Technology
- Railroads
- Telegraphs
Political support
- Free soiler to abolitionist
- "Preserve the union" to slavery
Reconstruction
Changes/Effects (group this as one change)
- Amendments XIII, XIV, XV
- No slavery
- Sharecropping
Continuities
Limited freedoms of blacks
- Black codes
- Literacy tests
Discrimination
- KKK
- White League
Continued use of African Americans for slave labor
- Sharecropping
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