Assignment Choose one of the following prompts and answer all questions as thoroughly as possible in a historical essay about four full pages in length. Use our course texts and required readings, and please cite work in Chicago format.
Formatting:
The Midterm Essay will be at least four full pages in length, double-spaced, using 12-point font.
Please include the following information on a cover page: your name, date the essay is due, the class section, and an indication of which essay option you have chosen. Cover page is not included in the page count.
No Works Cited or Bibliography page necessary. Use Chicago footnotes and endnotes instead.
An “A” essay will:
Be cited in Chicago format.
Answer the chosen essay prompt fully and completely.
Include a main thesis, or argument, which the rest of your essay will successfully refer to and strengthen.
Use detailed and appropriate evidence from the course’s required readings.
Utilize a mix of both primary and secondary source material.
Include body paragraphs that a) support your thesis, and b) are organized using transition sentences.
Be at least four full pages in length.
**Pay attention to the dates and periods mentioned in the prompts. Neglecting these dates or the instructions will result in a lower grade.**
Prompt Option 1: Trace the legal development and growth of slavery in North America before and after the American Revolution (through the new republic). Which economic, geographic, and social factors encouraged growths of slavery in the colonial period (1607- 1775) and the early republican period (1780s through the 1810s)? How did the American Revolution affect the institution of slavery? How did slavery shape colonial and American society?
Prompt Option 2: Describe the colonial origins of the American identity and a set of American values (freedom of speech, freedom of religion, equality, liberty, etc.). How did Americans define themselves coming out of the American Revolution? How did they determine who belonged and who could claim this American identity, as well as who could not? Confine your answer through 1800.
Prompt Option 3: Explain the factors contributing to European immigration to the British North American colonies (later states) through the American Revolution. How did ideas and policies on immigration (and indentured servitude) change after the Revolution? What political, economic, and social challenges did European immigrants to the US face during the first presidential administrations? Confine your answer through the 1810s.
Prompt Option 4: Trace the changes to Native American life since early English settlement in North America. Confine your answer through the War of 1812 and Tecumseh’s War. Describe the nature of British and American policies regarding Native Americans in the colonial period and the early republican periods.
Prompt Option 5: Trace the development and growth of an abolition movement opposed to slavery from the introduction of the institution to the British North American colonies in the 1620s through the 1810s. How did enslaved people resist and fight against the institution of slavery during this time? In what way did the American Revolution represent a turning point or milestone in abolitionism?
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