There will be four essays. You will choose TWO and write a complete essay on EACH topic. Each essay is worth 50 pts.
Broad topics to think about for the essays.
The Roots of Manifest Destiny, Justification, Results. Pro or Con?
Assess the career of Thomas Jefferson.
Transformation of U.S. from Revolutionaries to Nationalists
Transformation of U.S. from Nationalists to Sectionalists
Vocabulary you should know for your essays (this is by no means complete)
Thomas Jefferson
Embargo Act
Louisiana Purchase
John Marshall
Adams-Onis Treaty
American System
Transportation Revolution
James Madison
War of 1812
War Hawks
James Monroe
Era of Good Feeling
2nd Bank of the U.S.
Panic of 1819
Missouri Compromise
Monroe Doctrine
Marbury vs. Madison
McCulloch vs. Maryland
Gibbons vs. Ogden
John Quincy Adams
Andrew Jackson
Erie Canal
Manifest Destiny
Texas Revolution
William Henry Harrison
John Tyler
James Polk
54' 40 or Fight
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
Oregon Territory
Mexican War
Whigs
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Mexican Cession
Compromise of 1850
Franklin Pierce
Stephen Douglas
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Republican Party
Bleeding Kansas
Dred Scot
Lecompton Constitution
Charles Sumner
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Election of 1860
Raid on Harper's Ferry