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

 

How Do the 2 Essays Work with the Online Exams?

The 2 essays on the online exam work this way.

§         You write 2 essays on the exam that ends the Unit. You can prepare because you see all of the possible questions below.

§         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:

§         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.

§         You have 25 minutes to write your essay. As with all quizzes and exams, you must complete your work within that time.

 

General Tip about Identifying Information in the Textbook That You Need to Read Carefully

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

How Are Essays Graded?

Essays are graded based on your understanding of the history and using the Evidence Checklist/Rubric. These links may help:

§         For examples of student essays – using student examples from the History Changes Essay for both United States History 1 and 2

§         For how I use the Evidence Checklist/Rubric in grading

§         For how to work in ways that prevent the errors marked with the Evidence Checklist/Rubric

§         For a method for preparing to write a practical essay—one faster and more accurate than any method I have seen yet

Possible Choices You Will Have for Question 1

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)

Possible Choices You Will Have for Question 2

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 connections between the Louisiana Purchase and the Missouri Compromise

§         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

§         The Cherokee Indians and how happens to them shows about the Supreme Court and the Presidency in the 1830s

 

 

 

 

 

Copyright C. J. Bibus, Ed.D. 2003-2012

 

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Last Updated:

2012

 

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