Possible Essay Questions for Unit 3: Transforming the
Nation - 1830s to 1877 |
The 2 essays 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 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 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
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plan the answer, and write accurately. It now includes additional tips for those
who plagiarized or who were factually inaccurate.
The narrow strip will include two of these to choose from. You write on either one.
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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.) |
The narrow strip will include two of these to choose from. You write on either one.
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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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