History Writing Topic
Write out a well-thought and developed 2 – 3 paragraph response to it and post it on the Discussion board. Be sure you have quotes for the second question and use the proper citation for each section of the Forum question. Using quotes allows you to engage the primary document.
Remember, Initial posts should be between 300 to 500 words. Response posts (both replies) should be at least 150 words.
After you post your response to the above questions, you will be able to read the postings of other students. Then go back and reply to 2 – 3 other student posts. Be sure to offer more than opinions: support your comments with data, personal experience, outside readings, or prior coursework. Maintain the quality and clarity of your writing by attending to spelling, grammar, and punctuation before posting. Engage each other actively, debate ideas, and challenge each other. State any disagreements or objections clearly and respectfully.
Write out a well-thought and developed 2 – 3 paragraph response to it and post it on the Discussion board. Be sure you have quotes for the second question and use the proper citation for each section of the Forum question. Using quotes allows you to engage the primary document.
Background to the DB Question:
In a little more than a decade Americans had laid the foundation of a modem political party system. They had discovered that the machinery of government that the Constitution provided had to be supplemented by voluntary political institutions called parties. But Americans had not made a deliberate, considered decision; parties had been forced on them by the circumstances of the day.
The need to put America’s economic house in order and deal with its unsettled finances had created passionate disagreements between people with commitments to agriculture and those engaged in trade, banking, and manufacture.
Differences over the French Revolution had divided the country between those who felt the exhilaration of a freer, more democratic, and more secular Europe, and those who saw revolutionary France as a dangerous enemy of religion and social order and Britain as a bastion of stability.
Constitutional biases also divided Americans. During the years of Washington’s and Adams’s administrations, the Federalists had, understandably, favored a broad interpretation of national powers; and they had stretched these to the limit to achieve their legislative ends. The Jeffersonians, by contrast, had fought centralized, concentrated national power and favored protection of the states’ authority. Time would show that much of this difference depended on which party was “in” and which was “out.”
DB Question 1: Answer this in 3 paragraphs or more
After reading all the available course materials, how fragile do you think the new nation was in the early years of the Republic? What were the two important reasons for that fragility?
Proper Format to cite the TEXT. It is always the last name of the authors
(McGerr, Lewis, Oakes page number)
Failure to cite properly will result in points being deducted from your post.
Second question: Answer this in 1 paragraph or more
After reading the Primary Document–“Petition of Inhabitants West of the Ohio River,” answer the following question:
Who do the authors of the petition consider to be the greatest enemies of their liberty? Who do the authors claim ought to have preference when western land is distributed?
Proper format to cite the Primary Document. It is always the last name of the person or the group who authored the document.
(60 Ohioans page number)
