Answer 2 essay questions. Your response to each question should be at least one full page in length and should not exceed three pages.

1. Compare and contrast the experience of African Americans, Native Americans, and the immigrant poor in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Discuss how Reconstruction, the reservation system, and progressive reform affected each group, respectively. Did the government and American society treat each group equally, or differently? Explain with examples.

2. How did the Industrial Revolution, urbanization, and foreign expansion affect the nation from 1865 to 1920? What were the greatest economic and technological achievements of the time and what were the worst costs? Who benefitted from these changes? Who did not? Explain with examples.