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

 

How Do the 2 Essays Work Your Test in Class?

The 2 essays 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 take the exam essays, I provide a pile of narrow strips of paper with choices for each of those essays so each of you see different tests. When you finish your objective test, you hand it in to me and pick up the top strip from the pile. You can write on either one of the choices.

General Tips

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

Preventing Problems Identified by the Feedback Letters in the Evidence Checklist/Rubric

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 essays, plan the answer, and write accurately. It now includes additional tips for those who plagiarized or who were factually inaccurate.

 

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.
The narrow strip will include 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 parties 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.

The narrow strip will include two of these to choose from. You write on about the significant and representative events for either one of those choices. You are not writing every fact in the textbook; you are selecting significant and representative events.

§         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

§         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 and this President ignored the Supreme Court. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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