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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.
You will have two of these to choose from. You write on either one.
1.
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 and on the Declaration of Independence
2. Daniel Shays’s Rebellion and why the Constitution developed
3.
The Alien and Sedition Acts and the Kentucky
and Virginia Resolutions (nullification)and what they show about the
development of political parities before 1800
4.
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.
Also use the map 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.
You will have two of these to choose from. You write on either one.
1.
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 use the map in the folder for Reading 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.
2.
The Missouri Compromise and what it shows
about political parties after 1820
3.
What Texas not being admitted in the
1830s shows about political parties in that decade < No longer part of the exam essays.
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.
4.
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.
Where the Supreme Court enlarges its role is in the area of
corporations.
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