Unit 6 Possible Writing Prompts

Possible Topics Unit 6 Test Writing Section

One may be eliminated on your test. You will choose one and write a complete essay.

1. Determine the factors that led to the increased industrialization in the U.S. between 1870 and 1900.

2. Evaluate the extent to which migration/immigration contributed to social, political and economic continuities and change in the United States from the 1870s -1900.

3. Analyze the policies of the national government toward Native Americans between 1860 and 1890 versus the policies from 1790-1840.

4. Compare and contrast the agrarian social and political movements from the 1860s to 1900.

5. Analyze the social and economic changes brought by industrialization during the Gilded Age.