Test Three
For this test, you will choose two of the questions below and answer them to the best of your ability. Choose one from Part 1 and one from Part 2. Each answer should be about one-page to a page-and-a-half . You may begin working on this paper immediately and have until the due date on Tuesday, December 14, at 11:59 p.m.
Each answer should cite evidence from the textbook and the course materials.
Each answer is worth 50 points. Answer two questions. Answering one question
will result in an automatic failure
Part 1
A. Using the textbook and course materials, answer the following question: What types of reform movements emerged in the pre-Civil War U.S., what problems did they purport to solve and what were their goals? You should provide examples in your essay that relate to these three key terms: mobility, difference, and democracy.
B. Using the textbook and course materials, answer the following question.
What were the goals of radical reformers and what made them so controversial in the decades before the Civil War? You should provide examples in your essay that relate to these two key terms: democracy and difference?
Part 2
A. Using the textbook and course materials, answer the following question:
What factors drove migration in the mid-nineteenth century, what were the migrants’ destinations, and how did their movements shape American politics? You should provide examples in your essay that relate to these three key terms: mobility, democracy, and difference.
B. Using the textbook and course materials, answer the following question.
What issues shaped American politics in the early 1850s and 1860s and how did they contribute to defeat of slavery in the United States? You should provide examples in your essay that relate to these two key terms: democracy and difference.
