{"id":27505,"date":"2023-08-09T01:56:39","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T01:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/what-factors-helped-develop-a-unique-american-civilization-between-its-origins-the-1600s-and-1865\/"},"modified":"2023-08-09T01:56:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T01:56:39","slug":"what-factors-helped-develop-a-unique-american-civilization-between-its-origins-the-1600s-and-1865","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/what-factors-helped-develop-a-unique-american-civilization-between-its-origins-the-1600s-and-1865\/","title":{"rendered":"What factors helped develop a unique American civilization between its origins (the 1600s) and 1865?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: small; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 13px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Final Paper: 400 pts<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: small; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 13px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Writing Prompt:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: small; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">What factors helped develop a unique American civilization between its origins (the 1600s) and 1865?<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: small; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 13px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Writing Details:<\/strong><\/div>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; font-size: small; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-size: 13px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Strong answers will take into account many of the readings you completed (more than 10 different documents) and will consider several different answers to the question:<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-size: 13px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">For example,<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; font-size: small; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<ul style=\"padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: 13px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">You might want to argue that American civilization became distinct because of its geography;<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Your essay could discuss the long distance that immigrants to America had to travel and the way their isolation from Europe affected them;<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">The challenges of building a republic that covered a vast area of land;<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">The ways in which Americans\u2019 movement west both strengthened the country and challenged it because of slavery<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">You could cite everything from John Winthrop to Crevecoeur to the Federalist Papers to Frederick Douglass.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The above list is just one possible way to structure your essay;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: 13px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">You should develop the answer that you think is best and find evidence from the readings and film clips to support it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-size: 13px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">This is a formal academic essay;<\/strong>\n<ul style=\"padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Your paper must be<strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;6\u20138 pages<\/strong>&nbsp;long, and it must have an&nbsp;<strong style=\"font-weight: bold; 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cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">South Carolina\u2019s Declaration of Secession &#8211;&nbsp;\n<ul style=\"padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><a style=\"font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto;\">http:\/\/avalon.law.yale.edu\/19th_century\/csa_scarsec.asp<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Mississippi\u2019s Declaration of Secession &#8211;&nbsp;\n<ul style=\"padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><a style=\"font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto;\">http:\/\/avalon.law.yale.edu\/19th_century\/csa_missec.asp Alexander<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">H. Stephen\u2019s \u201cCorner Stone\u201d Speech &#8211;&nbsp;\n<ul style=\"padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><a style=\"font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto;\">http:\/\/teachingamericanhistory.org\/library\/document\/cornerstone-speech\/<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Union soldier writes to his wife, 1861-&nbsp;&nbsp;\n<ul style=\"padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><a style=\"font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto;\">http:\/\/www-tc.pbs.org\/kenburns\/civil-war\/media\/filer_public\/c0\/8f\/c08fa03c-620b-4a4a-82be-75a1c56017ff\/civil_war_letters_lesson_-_sullivan_ballou_letter.pdf<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Letters from a Confederate Officer, 1862 &#8211;\n<ul style=\"padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><a style=\"font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto;\">http:\/\/www.wwnorton.com\/college\/history\/archive\/resources\/documents\/ch17_05.htm<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Frederick Douglass, Why Should a Colored Man Enlist? (1863)\n<ul style=\"padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><a style=\"font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto;\">http:\/\/teachingamericanhistory.org\/library\/document\/why-should-a-colored-man-enlist\/<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Missouri Black Soldier to His Daughters, and to the Owner of One of the Daughters, 1864\n<ul style=\"padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><a style=\"font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto;\">http:\/\/www.freedmen.umd.edu\/rice.htm<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">A Southerner Remembers, 1907 &#8211;&nbsp;\n<ul style=\"padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><a style=\"font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto;\">https:\/\/www.gilderlehrman.org\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-pdfs\/t-03921-21.pdf<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">The Declaration of Independence:<\/strong><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><a style=\"font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto;\">Declaration of Independence | Teaching American History<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Gordon Wood,<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">The American Revolution:<\/strong><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span>Chapters 3\u20135 (pages 47\u2013109)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Final Paper: 400 pts Writing Prompt: What factors helped develop a unique American civilization between its origins (the 1600s) and 1865? 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