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Possible Essay Questions for Unit 2: From Making a Revolution to Making a Nation -1763 to 1830s |
The 2 essays on the online exam work this
way.
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You
write 2 essays on the exam that ends the Unit. You can prepare because you see all of the possible questions below.
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When you
actually click on the exam essays, Blackboard displays choices for each of
those essays so students see different tests. You can write on either one of
the choices.
Timing of your work:
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You may
do it any time between 12:01 AM on the first day in the schedule to 11:59 PM on
the last day.
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You have
25 minutes to write your essay. As with all quizzes and exams, you must
complete your work within that time.
General Tip: 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 Reading Quiz questions for this Unit to find specific words to use in the index at the back of the textbook
Click here
for the link to preventions provided after you receive feedback on your History
Changes Essay.
Click here to go to the prevention specifically to help you read for a question for the Unit 2, plan the
answer, and write accurately.
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.
Blackboard will display two of these to choose from. You write on either one.
§ The Declaration of Independence and what it says about revolution and what it shows about Daniel Shays’s Rebellion
§ 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 parities before 1800
§ The Northwest Ordinances and what it shows about settlement of the Northwest (include slavery)
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.
Blackboard will display two of these to choose from. You write on either one.
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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.”
§ The Missouri Compromise and what it shows about political parties after 1820
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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.
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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 and this President ignored the Supreme
Court.
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