The West
This was built during the Civil War, and provided an economic advantage to the United States of American while it also strengthened the bond of the country and helped the U.S. recover after the war. It also increased transportation and communication across the country.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This phrase has been used by many American Leaders to describe the fact that God chose America to be an example and model for the rest of the world.
What is "A City Upon a Hill?"
This American leader was a lawyer and preacher who led Puritans on a ship called the Arbella to escape religious persecution from England.
Who is John Winthrop?
This is an economic system in which economic decisions and the pricing of goods and services are guided solely by the interactions of a country's individual citizens and businesses. There is little government intervention or central planning.
What is a Market Economy?
This part of an Historical Essay should always restate the question, go beyond providing a list, and should ALWAYS provide a line of reasoning.
What is the Thesis Statement?
This term describes the United States of America's eventual progression West.
What is Westward Expansion?
Americans viewed this region as a land of economic opportunity and progress.
What is "The West"?
This American leader was the first Catholic President of the United States and was also one of the youngest Presidents the U.S. has ever had. He also used the phrase, "City on a Hill" in order to inspire Americans to trust him.
Who is JFK?
Most often industrialized countries expand because they have to find more of theses to sell their new products to.
What are markets?
This part of a Historical Essay is the main way students earn points. This portion of a historical essay must support their thesis and assertions. It must also be paraphrased with a line of reasoning that demonstrates a clear answer to the prompt.
What is Evidence?
This event was the first time the United States had a conflict with another country. This conflict started over disputed land and the United States need for new markets and labor.
What is the Mexican American War?
Because of the strong belief in American Identity and Exceptionalism. The United States continued to expand and eventually took this territory from Mexico.
What is the Annexation of Texas
This American Leader is credited for ending the Cold War and was an actor before he became President. He also used the phrase, "City on a Hill" in order to invoke American Identity.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
the amount of a commodity, product, or service available AND the desire of buyers for it, considered as factors regulating its prices.
This part of a historical essay provides background knowledge about the general time period and place. It should lead the reader up to the historical point that your argument starts.
What is Contextualization?
These groups of people saw the west as an opportunity to gain land, freedom, and wealth even though they would not have been granted these rights in the East or South.
What is Women and African Americans?
This is an ideology holding the United States as unique and special among all nations , with respect to its ideas of democracy and personal freedom.
What is American Exceptionalism?
When producers compete with each other for buyers, it can lead to innovation and lower prices, too much competition can be a problem for sellers.
What is competition?
If you restate your thesis, you automatically get the point for this strand of historical writing.
What is the conclusion?
The government created this Act in order to convince people to move West. In this Act, people who moved West would be granted free land, as long they lived and farmed on that land for at least five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified, inevitable, and chosen by God.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This American leader has promised during his campaign to expand the U.S. across all of North America. Afterwards he declared war on Mexico under the pretext of protecting America, however history shows the war was started in order to fully add Texas to the union for economic reasons.
Who is James K. Polk?
This was the world event that caused the United States to develop a Market Economy. Because of this time period the United States went through a series of technological advancements which led to the development of new factories. (You learned about this last year with Ms. Daley)
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This portion of Historical Writing utilizes Historical Context, Intended Audience, Purpose and Point of View in order to explain the importance of a document and the weight it bares on your historical argument.
What is Sourcing?