Possible Essays for Unit 2

Possible Essay Questions for Unit 2: From Making a Revolution to Making a Nation -1763 to 1830s

When you read, you identify significant and representative events. When you write, you select from those significant and representative events. You are not writing every fact in the textbook.

You can identify information about significant and representative events that you need to read about carefully by:

§ Using the index at the back of the textbook with the general words in the question

§ Using the quiz questions for this Unit to find specific words to use in the index at the back of the textbook

If those two things are not enough, I will provide tips to resources or to specific locations in the textbook. For examples, look at the tips for the possible choices for question 2 at the bottom of this webpage.

In learning the information you need for the essays, you must use content from our textbook. In most cases, the index at the back of the book will help you locate the content. Just make sure that you use chapters for this Unit, not an earlier or later Unit. You need to look up the content and think a bit. Explaining what the items are will be enough, but you also may notice more.

Possible Choices You Will Have for Question 1

You will have two or three choices to choose from. You write on one:

§ The Declaration of Independence and what it says about revolution and what it shows about Daniel Shays’s Rebellion
Tip: For this and the next, read the textbook on Daniel Shays Re

§ Daniel Shays’s Rebellion and why the Constitution developed

§ The Alien and Sedition Acts and the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions (nullification)and what they show about the development of political parties before 1800

§ The Northwest Ordinances and what it shows about settlement of the Northwest (include slavery)
Tip: Make sure you notice where the Northwest Territories are. If you use the index to look up both Northwest Ordinances and Northwest Territory, you will understand better. Look at ALL of the pages.
Also use the map in the folder for Quiz F in Unit 2. The description of that map explains the Missouri Compromise in the context of both the Louisiana Purchase and the Northwest Territories.

Possible Choices You Will Have for Question 2

You will have two or three choices to choose from. You write on one:

§ The connections between the Louisiana Purchase and the Missouri Compromise
Tip: In the information on the Missouri Compromise, notice the references to Missouri being at the “same latitude of much of Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio.”

· Those three states started out as part of the territory organized under the Northwest Ordinances (one of the few success of the Articles of Confederation government).

· The Northwest Ordinances established that territories could become states equal to the first states, supported public education, and “prohibited slavery from the region forever.”

· Also notice the instructor’s explanation of the map that shows the Missouri Compromise in the context of both the Louisiana Purchase and the Northwest Territories.

§ The Missouri Compromise and what it shows about political parties after 1820

§ What Texas not being admitted in the 1830s shows about political parties in that decade
Tip: You can find what happens in the 1830s after the Alamo by going to the table of contents and finding Chapter 10 and the page number for the heading “Conflict with Mexico.” Admission of Texas to the union (annexation) does not occur during this time period, but in the next one (in Unit 3).
FYI: normally the way you would find this content is by going to the index and looking for the earliest pages on Texas, but—if you have the 4th edition—the page number in the index is off by 1 page.

§ The Cherokee Indians and how happens to them shows about the Supreme Court and the Presidency in the 1830s
Tip: You can find what happens in the 1830s by looking up Cherokee in the index. You will find a reference to one of the two legal cases before the Supreme Court and to a section on Indian removal and to President Jackson himself.
Caution: Judicial review was established as a principle in Marbury vs. Madison, but it was still a new one when this President ignored the Supreme Court.

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