Long Essay Organizational Writing Assignment
For each of the following prompts:
1.
Come up with a thesis for each – be sure to address all parts of the prompt. Make it an “although” statement.
(Doesn’t have to be “although” for cause and effect)
2.
What topics/historical content are you talking about in your “although” paragraph?
3.
What topics/historical content are you talking about in your 2 nd and 3rd body paragraphs?
4.
Synthesis – What other history could you link this to?
Cause and Effect
Evaluate the impact women had on the political and social reforms of the Progressive Era from the 1880s through the 1920s.
Explain how economic development in the British North American colonies was impacted by the Atlantic trade routes between
1650 and 1750.
Compare and Contrast
Compare and contrast the political and economic ideas of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton in the 1790s.
Compare and contrast the responses of industrial leaders and progressive era reformers to the economic and social problems
created by industrialization during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Periodization/Turning point
To what extent was the assassination of President William McKinley a turning point in American history?
“The Mexican War was the point of no return in leading to the Civil War.” Support, modify, or refute this statement.
Continuity and Change Over Time
Evaluate the extent to which political compromise contributed to maintaining continuity as well as fostering change on sectional
tensions in the period 1820 to 1861.
Evaluate the extent to which Progressive reformers and the federal government maintained continuity as well as fostered change
during 1900-1920.
1. Thesis statement:
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2. What topics/historical content are you talking about in your “although” paragraph?
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3. What topics/historical content are you talking about in your 2nd and 3rd body paragraphs?
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4. Synthesis?
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