1. Short Response Essay 2. PLEASE cite from the book: America Firsthand, Volume I: Readings from Settlement to Reconstruction

1. Short Response Essay 2. PLEASE cite from the book: America Firsthand, Volume I: Readings from Settlement to Reconstruction. In this essay, you are to consider how the past has impacted your own life. study history is to understand our own present. 3. Examples from the material we have covered so far would include (1). Corporate Industrialism (2). the Civil War/Reconstruction, (3). the spread of political participation- or even democracy- to more Americans (4). Western expansion (What did these changes do to traditional Native life?>) (5). the Gilded Age Conditions did immigrants and industrial workers encounter in factories; the industrial working class (6). virtual tenement museum; women’s suffrage (vote) treated; Margaret Sanger work to legalize birth control (7). World War I (8). World War II