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FOCUS
QUESTIONS
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ERA 5
Civil War and Reconstruction
(1850-1877)
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ERA 6
Development of the Industrial
United States
(1870-1900)
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BOUNDARIES
What are the boundaries of New Hampshire and how did they get there? |
- state completes sale of public lands
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- Monadnock first NH state and reserve
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NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND PEOPLE
How have the natural environment and the way people live affected each other in New Hampshire? |
- national sectionalism
- leaving NH
- deforestation and farming
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- logging, railroads, papermaking, Berlin
- urbanization
- agriculture
- mining, quarrying
- inspiration for art
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CULTURE, RACES, AND ETHNIC GROUPS
What has happened when different cultures, races, and ethnic groups have met in New Hampshire? |
- demographics
- industrial labor
- Know-Nothings
- race riots
- fugitive slaves, abolitionists, and free blacks
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- demographics
- religious diversity
- Northern European immigrants
- Canadian immigrants
- Southern European immigrants
- unionism
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POLITICS
How have government and politics affected New Hampshire groups and individuals? |
- Republican Party
- Franklin Pierce
- locofocos
- Lincoln in NH
- NH in battle and on the homefront
- Morrill Act
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- industry and government
- utilities and government
- education
- suffrage movement
- Populism
- Old Home Day
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TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE
How have technology and science affected life in New Hampshire? |
- photography and H.P. Moore
- Thaddeus Lowe and the Union Balloon Corps
- weaponry
- wartime production
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- paper and pulp
- Cog Railway
- railroads: tourism and logging
- steam engines
- trolleys
- household technologies
- covered bridges
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NONGOVERNMENTAL GROUPS
What have nongovernmental groups contributed to New Hampshire life? |
- professional societies
- benevolent societies
- Secret Order of the Star Spangled Banner
- patriotic societies
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- NH Teachers Association
- NH Grange
- Woman's Christian Temperance Union
- NH Woman Suffrage Association
- NH Bar Association
- youth camps
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MATERIAL WANTS AND NEEDS
How have people and organizations interacted to produce, distribute, and consume wealth and take care of material
needs in New Hampshire? |
- wartime manufacturing
- wartime agriculture
- wartime commerce
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- employment of children
- employment of women
- farming changes
- class and leisure
- emigration and immigration
- urbanization
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SELF-EXPRESSION
How have New Hampshire people expressed their views, and what have they had to say? |
- Harriet Adams, Our Nig
- Celia Thaxter
- photography
- White Mountain School
- letters and diaries
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- Amy Beach
- Maxfield Parrish
- Augustus Saint-Gaudens
- Mary Baker Eddy
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