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Essay Prompt Practice

The document provides four essay prompts on various topics in American history before 1860. For each prompt, it instructs the reader to identify three details or pieces of supporting evidence that would be included in an essay answering that prompt, as well as writing a thesis statement. The prompts cover: (1) the cultural and economic responses of Britain, France and Spain to North American Indians before 1750; (2) evaluating claims of tyranny made against King George III in the Declaration of Independence; (3) how political, economic and diplomatic crises of the 1780s shaped provisions of the US Constitution; and (4) how developments in transportation brought economic and social change from 1820-1860.

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Essay Prompt Practice

The document provides four essay prompts on various topics in American history before 1860. For each prompt, it instructs the reader to identify three details or pieces of supporting evidence that would be included in an essay answering that prompt, as well as writing a thesis statement. The prompts cover: (1) the cultural and economic responses of Britain, France and Spain to North American Indians before 1750; (2) evaluating claims of tyranny made against King George III in the Declaration of Independence; (3) how political, economic and diplomatic crises of the 1780s shaped provisions of the US Constitution; and (4) how developments in transportation brought economic and social change from 1820-1860.

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Identify Supporting Evidence for Essay Response

Directions:
Below are some examples of long essay prompts. Identify three details or
supporting evidence which would be included in an essay which would
answer these prompts below. Create a thesis statement from each prompt.
(Brainstorm details first and then write thesis statement.) Please be sure to
include brainstorm ideas in the formulation of your thesis.
A. Analyze the cultural and economic responses of TWO of the following
groups to the Indians of North America before 1750: British, French,
Spanish.
1. _____________________________________________________________________
2. _____________________________________________________________________
3. _____________________________________________________________________
B. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of
repeated injuries and usurpation, all having, in direct object, the
establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. Evaluate this
accusation made against King George III in the Declaration of
Independence.
1. _____________________________________________________________________
2. _____________________________________________________________________
3. _____________________________________________________________________
C. Analyze the ways in which the political, economic, and diplomatic
crises of the 1780s shaped the provisions of the United States
Constitution. To what extent was the US Constitution a radical departure
from the Articles of Confederation?
1. _____________________________________________________________________
2. _____________________________________________________________________
3. _____________________________________________________________________
D. In what ways did developments in transportation bring about
economic and social change in the United States in the period 18201860?
1. _____________________________________________________________________
2. _____________________________________________________________________

3. _____________________________________________________________________

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