You will continue/finish writing a seven-paragraph (minimum)
essay answering the prompt and utilizing assigned primary sources and the
textbook. The intro and first body paragraph on the American Revolution is completed but feel free to revise.
Essay Prompt:
Compare and contrast the American Revolution, the Market Revolution, and the
Civil War as transformative events in U.S. history. Which was the most
transformative event and which was the least transformative event?
Each body paragraph should be concise, direct and through: include
evidence from multiple
assigned primary sources that I provided and evidence from an
assigned secondary source (namely, the textbook–www.americanyawp.com). You should not consult or cite
unassigned sources unless you seek and obtain explicit permission from me. For
convenience, here are all of the primary sources that are available for you to
quote and cite for this assignment:
Revolutionary America primary sources
Market Revolution primary sources
Civil War and Reconstruction primary
sources
You may also quote and cite the textbook, The
American Yawp: http://www.americanyawp.com/, which is a secondary source itself (the
textbook also includes primary source excerpts at the end of each chapter).
Your
thesis statement (directly answering the prompt) should appear in your first
paragraph (the introduction) and should be restated in the seventh paragraph
(the conclusion). Organize your essay by formulating topic sentences for
paragraphs 2-6 that back up your argument, then include information or
quotations from atleast 3 of the assigned primary sources and your textbook as the secondary source in the body paragraphs
to back up the topic sentence of that paragraph. There is more than one way to
organize an essay like this, Each body paragraph should include evidence from an
assigned primary source and evidence from an assigned secondary source (namely,
the textbook Chapters 5,8, and 14).You are not allowed to consult unassigned sources unless you
seek and obtain explicit permission from me.