Unit 2 Guided Reading Questions - use the questions to guide your reading and help you take notes; your summary should be a response to the Essential Question
* Set up as Cornell Notes:  Essential Question on top of page, Vocab defined or incorporated in notes, Guided Reading Questions on Left in Margin, Notes that help respond to question on right, Summary as a response to the Essential Question at end of notes

Reading Assignment #1:  p. 178-181
EQ:  How did Industrialization transform the U.S. in the early 1800s? 
Vocab:  internal improvements, manufacturing, free enterprise, Industrial Revolution, nativism, labor unions, ambiguous
1.  How did the development of new industries and the railroads change the North in the early 1800s?

2.  How and why was slavery expanded in the South in the early 1800s?
Summary:  How did Industrialization transform the U.S. in the early 1800s? 

Reading Assignment #2:  p. 186-189
EQ:  How did reform movements of the early-mid 1800s shape the character of Americans at this time? 
Vocab:  2nd Great Awakening, temperance, suffrage, abolition, emancipation
1.  How did the 2nd Great Awakening bring about changes to religion in the US in the 1800s?

2.  How did social reform movements shape legislation and public opinion in the 1800s?
Summary:  How did reform movements of the early-mid 1800s shape the character of Americans at this time? 

Reading Assignment #3:  p. 218-222
EQ:  What factors made Reconstruction a complicated process? 
Vocab:  amnesty, moderates, radicals, pocket veto, freedmen, black codes, impeach
Key terms:  Radical Republicans, Wade Davis Bill, Freedmen's Bureau, 14th Amendment, Military Reconstruction, Congressional Reconstruction
1.  How did Reconstruction of the South begin after the Civil War under the leadership of President Lincoln? 

2.  How did President Johnson try to lead Reconstruction?

3.  How did Radical Republicans try to control Reconstruction of the South? 
Summary:  What factors made Reconstruction a complicated process?

Reading Assignment #4:  p. 223-225
EQ:  How effective was Reconstruction? 
Vocab: carpetbaggers, scalawags, exploit, infrastructure, Ku Klux Klan, tenant farmers, sharecroppers
1. How did African Americans become politically active after the Civil War?

2.  How did Northerners try to influence politics and society in the South after the Civil War?

3.  How did the South (politically, socially) respond during Reconstruction?

4.  How did Reconstruction come to an end (politically and socially)?
Summary:  How effective was Reconstruction? 
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