Part II: Essay (50%)
Please respond to ONE of the following prompts in a thesis-driven essay of 5 paragraphs. Your essay must reference (in a parenthesis or a footnote) at least 5 sources drawn from the American Yawp chapters or documents in the American Yawp Reader, materials linked or posted to the Blackboard page, classroom handouts, or lecture notes for weeks 1-17 of this course. Do NOT do additional research for this essay.
2a. How did gender roles and the relative statuses of men and women in American life change (or not change) between the colonial era and the Civil War?
OR
2b. Who were the first Americans?
OR
2c. Who was Thomas Jefferson?
OR
2d. Assuming that time travel into the past (either as your embodied self or as a discorporated in-tellectual entity nonetheless capable of perception) became possible, what historical moment, event, place, or encounter would you like to visit? Why? What do you think you would observe or expe-rience? Would you try to intervene to stop or change historical events? Why or why not?
these are the only two textbooks where your sources shouls be cited from:
http://www.americanyawp.com/
http://www.americanyawp.com/reader.html
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