HIS 222 Exam 1 Essay Winter 2015
HIS 222 – United States History II
EXAM 1
Due: 11pm Tuesday 30 December 2014
Directions: Please write a 1000 word analytical essay (approximately five pages) in response to the topic and questions noted below.
Each essay must be analytical and well-organized (this is not a book report).
Remember to use specific examples to support your generalizations, and (once again) the essay must be analytical. College scholars are expected to write well-organized analytical essays, not simplistic book reports.
Do not use first person, “I,” in your essays. It is your paper; you are the author, so “I” is unnecessary. Consequently, avoid the phrase “in my opinion” because it is your paper. In addition, do not use the phrases “the book said,” “in the book,” and other stock phrases. For the purposes of this course, those phrases create “wimpy” scholarship because you are hiding behind the authors and not taking a stand.
Finally, do not plagiarize. Your sources are our text book, PowerPoint lectures, documentary films, and in-class discussions.
After the Civil War, the United States of America underwent tremendous economic, social, cultural, and demographic change as modern America began to take root. Indeed, the movement west, the new industrial order, the changing nature of work, the massive migrations of populations from the countryside and abroad, and the rise of great cities transformed America in the late nineteenth century.
Historians are interested in three key questions: when, why, and where. How did the USA change? When did it change? Why did it change? Where did the changes take place (North/South/West; city or countryside, etc.)?
With these questions in mind, please compare and contrast the nation in 1865 to the nation in 1900.
In the end, you will have written an essay describing and explaining the historical significance of the new, increasingly modern, America in 1900.
EXAM 1
Due: 11pm Tuesday 30 December 2014
Directions: Please write a 1000 word analytical essay (approximately five pages) in response to the topic and questions noted below.
Each essay must be analytical and well-organized (this is not a book report).
Remember to use specific examples to support your generalizations, and (once again) the essay must be analytical. College scholars are expected to write well-organized analytical essays, not simplistic book reports.
Do not use first person, “I,” in your essays. It is your paper; you are the author, so “I” is unnecessary. Consequently, avoid the phrase “in my opinion” because it is your paper. In addition, do not use the phrases “the book said,” “in the book,” and other stock phrases. For the purposes of this course, those phrases create “wimpy” scholarship because you are hiding behind the authors and not taking a stand.
Finally, do not plagiarize. Your sources are our text book, PowerPoint lectures, documentary films, and in-class discussions.
After the Civil War, the United States of America underwent tremendous economic, social, cultural, and demographic change as modern America began to take root. Indeed, the movement west, the new industrial order, the changing nature of work, the massive migrations of populations from the countryside and abroad, and the rise of great cities transformed America in the late nineteenth century.
Historians are interested in three key questions: when, why, and where. How did the USA change? When did it change? Why did it change? Where did the changes take place (North/South/West; city or countryside, etc.)?
With these questions in mind, please compare and contrast the nation in 1865 to the nation in 1900.
In the end, you will have written an essay describing and explaining the historical significance of the new, increasingly modern, America in 1900.