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Prompt (Choose One): What role did benevolent reform, especially antislavery, play in the collapse of the Second Party System in the 1850s? Western expansion directly resulted in a series of impossible compromises in the 1850s leading the United States toward Civil War

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Prompt (Choose One):

1. What role did benevolent reform, especially antislavery, play in the collapse of the Second Party System in the 1850s?
2. Western expansion directly resulted in a series of impossible compromises in the 1850s leading the United States toward Civil War. Was the Civil War inevitable?
3. Following the abolition of slavery in 1865, how and why did the United States abandon a national reform project that promised but failed to ensure “equal protection under the law” for all citizens, white and black?

Format:

1000 words
Double space
12-point font
Standard written English
One-inch margins
Chicago style footnote citations. Do not cite in MLA style.

Content:
Your paper must have a main idea/thesis/argument. It cannot be a summary of the reading. Your thesis must answer the prompt.
Your paper must be carefully edited. Grammar, punctuation, and spelling count.
Cultivate your own voice/style. You will be writing a lot of papers in college, so find your voice. This means papers by different students on the same prompt should be distinct. It does not mean the papers are about you. Do not write about yourself and do not use a conversational tone or self-references.
You must demonstrate understanding and familiarity with Week 10-12 course readings: Alan Brinkley's Unfinished Nation, Ch 12-15, Amy Greenberg's A Wicked War, Ch 12 & 13, and the various articles assigned in American Perspectives. If you do not use two of the three texts your paper will not pass.
These are reading response essays, not research papers. There should be no other source material beyond Brinkley's Unfinished Nation, Greenberg's A Wicked War, and American Perspectives; do not summarize content you have read on the internet. Use only Unfinished Nation, A Wicked War, and American Perspectives.
Any paper with no citations is an F paper.

Grading:
Meet the format requirements
Have thoughtful content including a clear answer to the prompt
Write clearly and edit your work
“A” papers do these three tasks strongly, “B” papers may be weak in one area, “C” papers may be weak in two areas, “D” papers may be weak in three areas, etc.

Plagiarism: Plagiarism is the theft of words or ideas from another writer and dishonestly passing them off as your own. Any plagiarism- even a few sentences or a single paragraph- will result in a ZERO on the paper. Do not be tempted to submit work you did not create. Two episodes of plagiarism in the course will result in an F in the course and a referral to HCC’s academic disciplinary review committee via Maxient.