SKACAN
U.S. HISTORY NAME ______________________
THIRD QUARTER: ESSAY
Answer/address the prompt below in a multi-paragraph essay containing a minimum of five paragraphs. Write persuasively to prove your argument using facts, quotations, statistics, ideas gathered from your textbook, class notes and outside research conducted. Write well using Mary Star of the Sea High School college readiness essay standards discussed in class, including proper MLA formatting and documentation. Grades will be assessed on the following basis:
1) Quality of argument
2) Manipulation of evidence
3) Structure of essay
4) Academic Research and Writing principles
Additional requirements:
? Conduct and include outside research using a minimum of 5 reliable sources, properly cited via appropriate PARENTHETICAL NOTATION and a WORKS CONSULTED LIST
? Required:
? 2 books
? 2 .edu sites
? 1 .gov site [.mil accepted]
? No .com sites without prior Instructor approval
? Students MUST submit the final essay to TURNITIN.COM – NLT 9:00 p.m. Wednesday, 9 March. No essays accepted without prior Turnitin.com submission
? Students MUST submit the properly formatted final essay hard copy with Parenthetical Notes and Works Consulted List during the appropriate class period – NLT Thursday, 10 March
LINCOLN AND REPUBLICAN PARTY
Examine President Abraham Lincoln as an American leader.
? How did Lincoln manage a “Team of Rivals” and win the Civil War? Explain the key elements of Lincoln’s presidential leadership, offering specific examples of Lincoln’s management style, actions and problem-solving.
? In addition to preserving the Union, what else did Lincoln, his administration and the Republican-dominated Congress accomplish for the nation?
The United States owes what legacy to President Lincoln and Republican leadership of the 1860s and early 1870s?
TIP: Do not write a biographical sketch of Lincoln’s life – analyze, criticize, synthesize and evaluate Lincoln’s and the Republican Party’s effects on the nation.
SKACAN
U.S. HISTORY NAME ______________________
SUGGESTED DETAILS FOR BODY PARAGRAPHS
REMEMBER: ARGUE BOTH WHAT LINCOLN DID HIMSELF AND WHAT OTHERS DID – ESSAY ANALYZES WHAT OCCURRED “ON LINCOLN’S WATCH” AND IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING
POLITICAL
??Administration
??Cabinet selections/management & interaction: Seward, Welles, Stanton, Chase, Bates
??Commander-in-Chief: Overall strategy; Management of the various generals; battlefield visits; communication
? Handling of the Border States
? Draft
? Suspension of the writ of habeas corpus
? Martial Law
??Working with Congress
??Foreign Affairs
??Handling popular opinion – garnering/keeping support
ECONOMIC
??Federal Income Tax / Taxes
??“Greenbacks” / National Paper Currency
??Tariff
??National Banking System
??Treasury Bonds/Notes
??Pacific Rail Acts
??Morrill Land Grant Act
??Homestead Act
SOCIAL
??Confiscation Acts?
? African American participation in war effort
??Emancipation Proclamation
??Abolition of Slavery / 13th Amendment
??Protection of Rights / Inclusion of all people within society, regardless of color
? “Forty Acres and a Mule”
? Freedman’s Bureau
ITEMS TO WEAVE THROUGHOUT:
??Intelligence, Shrewdness
??Blend of iron will and cooperation
??Balance of decisiveness and patience
??Understanding of Human Nature
??Hard Work
??Oratory and Written Adeptness
??Ability to Evolve
??Vision
? Humour