Essays Part 1
A civic literacy essay should be about __ paragraphs.
True or False: Your civic issue is provided for you in your Civic Issue Essay directions.
What is true?
The primary criticism of President Jackson was...
What is his passage of the Indian Removal Act that led to the Trail of Tears and many other instances of displacement and genocide?
One proxy war during the Cold War
What is Vietnam, Afghanistan, Korea, etc.
The difference between a Federalist and an Anti-Federalist is that ...
*Hint: What does federal mean?*
What is federalists wanted a powerful, central government while anti-federalists did not?
Each short essay should only be __ paragraphs.
What is 2 paragraphs?
You MUST include ________________ ________________________ in all 3 essays.
What is outside information?
Reaganomics were...
What are the economic policies of President Reagan that aimed to reduce welfare and increase military spending?
One cause of the Spanish-American War.
What is yellow journalism?
What is the U.S.S. Maine?
What is Cuban independence?
Explain McCarthyism
What is government attacks on their own people (politicians, authors, musicians, scientists, etc.) on the ground that they were suspected of being communists during the Second Red Scare?
The first paragraph of BOTH short essay 1 and short essay 2 should focus on...
What is historical context?
The number of documents you should PARAPHRASE evidence from in your civic literacy essay is...
What is 4 documents?
The president who advocated for rugged individualism is..
Who is President Hoover?
Explain the 3 Amendments that followed the Civil War
13th- abolished slavery unless convicted of a crime
14th- promised citizenship to all + equal rights under law
15th- right to vote for men
Explain Reconstruction...
What was an era after the Civil War where the U.S. tried to re-unify the nation and integrate formerly enslaved people into the social fabric. This was met with resistance from groups such as the KKK and eventually those reforms were taken away.
The second paragraph of short essay 2 should focus on...
What is reliability based on Purpose/ Audience/ Bias/ Point of View?
The second paragraph of short essay 1 should focus on...
What is the relationship between two events (cause/effect, similarity/difference, turning point)?
The president that escalated US involvement in the Vietnam War was...
Who is President Johnson?
The two sides of WWII
What are the Allied (US, GB, Soviet Union) and Axis (Germany, Italy, Japan) Powers?
Explain Muckrackers
Who are journalists during the Progressive Era such as Jacob Riis and Upton Sinclair that exposed social problems at the time (such as tenements and meatpacking respectively)?
The 3 tasks you must address in your Civic Literacy Essay are...
What are
1. Providing historical context for the civic issue.
2. Explaining (at least 2) efforts to address the civic issues.
3. Evaluating the impact of such efforts.
Provided with a document on The Stamp Act, one piece of outside information you could provide in your essay would be...
What is American Independence?
What is Taxation without Representation?
What is tax cuts for corporations and billionaires in the U.S. today?
A similarity between FDR and President Johnson is that they both...
*NOTE* You must use the name of these policies and describe what they did
What is increased government involvement in economic affairs by creating widespread welfare programs with the New Deal and Great Society respectively?
The 5 causes of WWI and the 4 effects.
What are
Causes:
Militarism
Alliances
Nationalism
Imperialism
Assassination
Effects:
Blame
Reparations
Arms (lost)
Territory (lost)
Explain the difference between capitalism and communism.
Communism = more government involvement, proletarian control of the means of production, social gain, welfare
Capitalism = less government involvement, bourgeois control of the means of production, individual gain, rugged individualism