Possible Essay Questions for Unit 3: Transforming the Nation - 1830s to 1877

 

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

The narrow strip will include two of these to choose from. You write on either one.

·         What does the Mexican War reveal about manifest destiny? (State at least two things it reveals.)

·         What does bleeding Kansas reveal about popular sovereignty? (State at least two things it reveals.)

·         How do communes reveal reform movements before the Civil War? (Cover at least two of these communal groups.)

·         What is alike and different about two of these three movements--the American Colonization Society, the American Antislavery Society, and Free Soilers? (Compare at least two traits.)

·         What is alike and different about the North and South in the twenty years before the Civil War? (Compare at least two traits.)

Possible Choices You Will Have for Question 2

The narrow strip will include two of these to choose from. You write on either one.

·         What is alike and different about Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and  the 13th Amendment to the Constitution

·         What are the South’s black codes and what is the connection between them and the North’s push for the14th Amendment to the Constitution?

·         Why did Congress pass Military reconstruction?  - Tip: Look at Chapter 16 and the heading “The Reconstruction Act of 1867.” The first sentence will tell you while this period is frequently called military reconstruction.  Look at the 3 pages before that heading and what the South and Andrew Johnson are doing. From that, you can tell why Congress passed this law and the public in the North considered it reasonable.

·         Why did the Republican Party and the Democratic Party want the Compromise of 1877?

 

 

 

 

 

 

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