Thesis Topic: Expansion and Sectionalism.
Thesis Statement: Colonial resistance to the proclamation line had been one of unifying factors that had committed many English colonists to revolution and helped spread an emerging nationalism. The revolution provided access to vast western lands and for many years western expansion would serve as an element that bound the various sections together. Yet as the decades rolled on and the United States added even more land in its march to the Pacific, expansionism led to sectionalism which resulted in the Union being torn apart.
The Research paper: This assignment is a 1500 word research paper based on the text The American Yawp following the instructions in A Short Guide to Writing About History, among other requirement this means you are not to use parenthetical (MLA) type references, you must use footnotes, follow the examples found in A Short Guide to Writing About History. In this paper you will support your thesis or in other wo
rds take a position and argue to defend the thesis. Your paper will be based exclusively upon information from The American Yawp, unless you have also had up to five primary sources approved by the instructor, which you may then also use. You must use the thesis topic and thesis statement that were approved or assigned by the instructor. The due dates are listed on the syllabus in the schedule. Your paper must be your own original non-plagiarized work, plagiarized material will result in no credit for the assignment and the class and may result in suspension. Late papers will be deducted 10% of the grade per calendar day. Every paper will be checked by computer to make sure it is an original work.
The Paper Grading Criteria:The 1500 word research paper will be graded as follows:
10% Grammar
30% Documentation (i.e. footnotes)
30% Information selected (facts, quotes, and paraphrases)
30% The use of information (quality of argument)
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