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

 

General Tips

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.

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? (State at least one similarity and one difference.)

·         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? (State at least two connections.)

·         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. (State at least two reasons.)

·         Why did the Republican Party and the Democratic Party want the Compromise of 1877? (State at least two reasons for each party.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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