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- 1. Students will berequired to write a 1500 word (it can be longer but not shorter), double-spaced research essay on any ONE of the topics listed in the section below. IMPORTANT: You MUST save your essays as WORD (.doc file) or RICH TEXT FILE (.rtf file) documents! Otherwise, I probably won't be able to open your essay! I can't grade an essay that I can't open! A minimum of 1500 words in length (it can be longer, but NOT shorter). Based on any ONE of the approved topics listed below. Written ENTIRELY in your OWN words (no plagiarism, in other words). You may use a few brief quotes, but be careful to use quotation marks (" ") and to keep quotes relevant and to a minimum (no more than 1 or 2 brief quotes per page). Quoted material will NOT count towards the word limit! Neat and clearly written. I do not require any particular "style" (MLA, APA, Turabian, etc...), but I do expect the essay to be neat and clear. Please be sure to proofread your essay before submitting! You may use the internet, books, periodicals, etc in researching your essay topic. Be sure to use at least 3 sources and be sure to put everything into your own words when writing the essay! List all sources used at the end of your
- 2. essay. Please do notuse images (pictures, maps, graphs, etc.) in your essay! They often make it more difficult to upload your file. Written using standard #12 fonts, double spaced, 1-inch margins, etc.. Your essay should be based on any ONE of the below topics: the Anasazi Indians Christopher Columbus the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke the Jamestown Colony John Winthrop William Penn Anne Hutchinson the Great Awakening the Salem Witch Trials Bacon's Rebellion the Battle of Quebec the Stamp Act the Boston Massacre
- 3. the Sons ofLiberty the Boston Tea Party Sam Adams Patrick Henry Paul Revere Thomas Paine the Declaration of Independence the Battle of Lexington/Concord the Battle of Bunker Hill the Battle of Trenton Ethan Allen and the "Green Mountain Boys" the Battle of Princeton the Battle of Germantown John Paul Jones Valley Forge the Battle of Saratoga the Battle of Cowpens the Battle of Yorktown
- 4. the Treaty ofParis (1783) Shay's Rebellion the Constitutional Convention the Atlantic Passage (of slaves) George Washington Alexander Hamilton John Adams Abigail Adams Thomas Jefferson the Lewis and Clark Expedition Zebulon Pike Stephen Long the Barbary Pirates War James Madison John Marshall the War of 1812 Oliver Hazard Perry Tecumseh
- 5. the USS Constitution theBattle of New Orleans Henry Clay the Erie Canal the Missouri Compromise James Monroe the Monroe Doctrine John Quincy Adams Daniel Webster Andrew Jackson the Nullification Crisis John C. Calhoun the Trail of Tears Martin van Buren William Henry Harrison John Tyler Robert Fulton the McCormick Reaper
- 6. the "Mill Towns"of New England Samuel Colt Irish Immigration (1830s-1850s) the "Know Nothings" the Second Great Awakening Brigham Young Transcendentalism Emily Dickenson Herman Melville Edgar Allan Poe Dorothea Dix Frederick Douglass the Battle of the Alamo the Seneca Falls Convention Elizabeth Cady Stanton James Polk the Mexican-American War Winfield Scott
- 7. Zachary Taylor Millard Fillmore JimBridger John C. Fremont the Cotton Gin the Compromise of 1850 Samuel Morse Sojourner Truth "Bleeding Kansas" Franklin Pierce Harriet Tubman James Buchanan Harriet Beecher Stowe Abraham Lincoln Harper's Ferry Revolt Fort Sumter Jefferson Davis the Battle of Bull Run (First or Second)
- 8. George McClellan Robert E.Lee William T. Sherman Ulysses S. Grant Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson the Battle of Antietam the Battle of Gettysburg the Battle of Atlanta the Battle of the Wilderness the Siege of Petersburg the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln Andrew Johnson the Reconstruction of the South