HISTORY 1301 CRITICAL WRITING ASSIGNMENT

History 1301 Writing Assignment

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• Due Sunday by 11:59pm

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• Available Aug 27 at 8am - Sep 23 at 11:59pm 28 days

HISTORY 1301 CRITICAL WRITING ASSIGNMENT

INSTRUCTIONS. 

A. Select one of the questions below and write an essay consisting of at least 1000 words using the MLA format. The reference page is not included in the essay word count.

B. At least three references are required, and do not use Wikipedia or the textbook, The Unfinished Nation, as sources for this assignment.

C. This paper should be double spaced with 12 point font.

D.  Plagiarized papers will result in an automatic F.

Due date:  Submit your paper in Canvas in a pdf no later than September, before 11:59 pm. Late papers will not be accepted.

1.  Discuss the Salem Witch trials, a time of fear and hysteria, and compare this period to at least two other times of paranoia in United States history.

 2.  Discuss three different causes of the Civil War. Do you think each cause played an equal role leading to war?  Which, if any, of the causes that you named had the biggest impact? 

3.   Discuss the contributions of African Americans to the American Revolution for both, the United States and the British.  After winning the Revolutionary War for freedom, what were the viewpoints of the "Founding Fathers" of African Americans, both slaves and free, in the writing of the Constitution?

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