Heres the link to the book http://www.openstax.org/details/us-history (let me know if it doesn’t work). All sources should be from the book. You can cite it like “book 3.4” ( i just need a B paper)
Heres the promt
for this assignment I’m going to ask you to narrow your focus to a pattern or storyline of your choice, and follow it through time.
Here’s what I mean. Choose a particular topic that’s of interest to you. It could be the expansion of slavery, or the resistance to slavery, or the various ways Americans have defined freedom, or the impact of changing technology, or opportunities for women, or the role of the military, or the reform impulse, or changes in religious belief, or the development of the system of government, or changes in political philosophy or political participation, or relations with the original inhabitants of the continent; or it could be something else. Think about that particular topic as a storyline in American history. Identify four or more events/people/turning points where that topic is especially interesting or important. Be sure to space those points out over time (our course spans the colonial period, through the Revolutionary and early National eras to the Civil War / Reconstruction era — your topic may not fit all those eras, but do try to spread out over a century or more). And then write an essay of about 5 to 7 pages in which you use those events or people to tell a story about how America changed (or didn’t change) during that span of time. Not the whole story of America, just a story, centered on your chosen topic.
Still confused? Here’s an example of a topic for the essay. Feel free to use it if you want:
An essay on “troublemaking” women and their impact on America. After a paragraph introducing the theme, stops along the way could be: Anne Hutchinson + the “Daughters of Liberty” + Seneca Falls Convention + Harriet Beecher Stowe. To pull the pieces together, think about: How did America change over that span of a couple of centuries? Did these women reflect those changes, or help cause those changes? (Or did they do both?)
If you find yourself without enough material for 5-7 pages, you can add another “stop” or two in your story (or if you’d rather, you can do a little outside research to bulk up your essay).
USE QUOTATIONS TO SUPPORT AND ILLUSTRATE YOUR POINTS. Cite pages or sections in our textbook where appropriate. I don’t need any particular scholarly format, just make sure I can see where your material is coming from. I don’t need a works cited page unless you’re using outside sources.
