Prompt: “In the decades after the Civil War ended in 1865, the United States underwent sweeping changes in the latter half of the 19th century, initiating what most consider modern America.
Using at least 5 primary sources from the American Yawp Reader chapters assigned in Unit One, describe the impact of these changes on American society, who was considered American, and what made America modern?
(Make sure you identify which sources you are referencing in a simple parenthetical citation in the text of your paper).”
Sources:
1. http://www.americanyawp.com/reader/reconstruction/
2. http://www.americanyawp.com/reader/17-conquering-the-west/
3. http://www.americanyawp.com/reader/19-american-empire/
4. http://www.americanyawp.com/reader/16-capital-and-labor/
5. http://www.americanyawp.com/reader/18-industrial-america/
