You will be required to write an argumentative essay based upon what we have learned in our Chapter 17 Unit:
The Road to the Civil War. Below is a list of different topics that you may chose to write about for your essay.
Each topic has websites, articles, and books that you may use for resources. You must use at least 3 sources
(one of which must be from a book) in your essay.
If you use a resource that is not on this list, you must get my approval first!
1.
Did Sectionalism or Slavery cause the Civil War?
 http://www.wwnorton.com/college/history/america8/full/ch/10/documents.aspx?selTab=1#titlti

A History of US: War, Terrible War “A Divided Nation“(Joy Hakim)
 http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/civil-war-overview/triggerevents.html

American History: The Early Years to 1877 (McGraw-Hill)
 http://www.nps.gov/civilwar/causes.htm
 http://www.socialstudieshelp.com/Lesson_29_Notes_SEC_HO.htm
2.
Was John Brown a terrorist or a freedom fighter?
 http://www.history.com/topics/john-brown

A History of US: War, Terrible War “John Brown’s Body” (Joy Hakim)
 http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2011/spring/brown.html

American History: The Early Years to 1877 (McGraw-Hill)
 http://www.nps.gov/hafe/historyculture/john-brown.htm
3.
Should Dred Scott have won his Supreme Court Case?

A History of US: War, Terrible War “A Dreadful Decision” (Joy Hakim)
 http://www.ushistory.org/us/32a.asp
 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2933.html

American History: The Early Years to 1877 (McGraw-Hill)
 http://www.thedredscottfoundation.org/dshf/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=50&Itemid=55
4.
Was the Civil War avoidable?
 http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/civil-war-overview/triggerevents.html
 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/772812/posts
 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/was-the-american-civil-war-avoidable/

American History: The Early Years to 1877 (McGraw-Hill)
 http://www.socialstudieshelp.com/Lesson_29_Notes_SEC_HO.htm
5.
Was Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, written to inform the public of the harsh realities of slavery or to make the south look bad?

A History of US: War, Terrible War “Harriet and Uncle Tom” (Joy Hakim)
 https://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/utc/
 https://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/utc/impact.shtml
 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2958.html
 http://www.shmoop.com/uncle-toms-cabin/

American History: The Early Years to 1877 (McGraw-Hill)

Important Note about researching: When researching your argument, be sure to write down any background information or important history about your topic! You need to include details, dates, and/or people that played a role in your specific topic.
You must provide a Works Cited page to be turned in with your final essay. Your resources must be cited in
MLA format. You may use the website: www.easybib.com
or the examples to help you.
Website:
Last Name, First Name of Author. “Title of Aricle.”
Title of Website. Publisher or Sponsor, year copyrighted.
Web. Date visited. URL
Joyner, Jamesr. "Was The American Civil War Avoidable?" Outside the Beltway. Outside the Beltway, 2003. Web. 19 Mar.
2014. <http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/was-the-american-civil-war-avoidable/>.
Book:
Last Name, First Name of Author. Title of book.
Vol. #. Publishing City: Publishing Company, date published.
Print. Title of Chapter.
Hakim, Joy. A History of US: Terrible War. Vol. 6. New York: Oxford UP, 2005. Print. Harriet and Uncle Tom.
History Text Book:
Last Name, First Name of Authors. Title of book.
Publishing City: Publishing Company, date published. Print. page #’s.
Ritchie, Donald, and Albert Broussard. American History: The Early Years to 1877. New York, NY: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill,
1997. Print. 555-556.
Plagiarism Statement
Plagiarism is defined as the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own. Any information or sources you use must be sited on a “works cited” page separate from the argumentative essay. DO NOT PLAGARIZE! Per the student handbook
(page 51) “The act of giving or receiving unauthorized help, including cheating, plagiarism, and copying, will result in a zero being assigned for the work.”
Any information that you get from another source must be REWRITTEN in YOUR OWN
WORDS!!