5 page history essay

History 131 Kang

Final Exam Spring 2019

Instructions

Please prepare a five-page answer to one of the following essay questions.

Essay Question 1

The nation's military engagements abroad have always had an impact at home. Thus, for example, while military spending routinely boosted the nation's economy, wartime anxieties about enemy invasions often resulted in the restriction of civil liberties.

In this essay, compare and contrast the impacts of World War II and the Vietnam War on the American home front. In your answer, be sure to explain how each conflict affected the nation's economy and society. In addition, be sure to discuss how the American people responded to the nation's participation in World War II and the Vietnam War.

Please note that your essay must have an argument. In addition, you must provide extensive evidence for your argument from a minimum of five course readings (a film or documentary counts as one course reading). In addition to these five course readings, you also must cite to the class lectures.

Essay Question 2

Despite the passage of the Reconstruction Amendments, inequality remained a feature of everyday life for many, including African Americans, women, immigrants, and the working classes. African Americans and immigrants found themselves subject to racial discrimination. Women were unable to vote until the early twentieth century. Meanwhile, the nation's factory workers suffered as a result of poor wages and working conditions. Yet, in the face of these challenges, these groups fought for their political, social, and economic rights from the late nineteenth century to the present.

In this essay, discuss how two of the following groups fought for their rights (whether political, economic, or social) or the rights (whether political, economic, or social) of all Americans.

1. Women suffragists

2. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal

3. Participants in the Civil Rights Movement

In preparing your answer, be sure to define the problems (whether political, social, or economic) faced by each group and explain how each group tried to solve these problems.

Please note that your essay must have an argument. In addition, you must provide extensive evidence for your argument from a minimum of five course readings. In addition to these five course readings, you also must cite to the class lectures.

Requirements

Please note that these requirements apply to both essay questions.

1. Both essays must have an argument or thesis statement.

2. All papers must be double-spaced and printed in a twelve-point font. Please make sure to number your pages and set the margins to one inch per edge.

3. All students must document their sources through the use of footnotes or in-text citations.

4. DO NOT USE OUTSIDE SOURCES FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT.

5. In completing this assignment, students are expected to abide by the Academic Honesty Policy, particularly the provisions relating to plagiarism. (For a copy of the policy, please see the following webpage: http://www.csusm.edu/policies/active/documents/academic_honesty.html.)

Grading

Grades will be based on the following factors: 1) your ability to write a clear and accessible argument or thesis statement; 2) your ability to fully support your argument with substantial evidence from the course readings and lectures; 3) your comprehension of the course materials, both readings and lectures, discussed in your essays; 4) your ability to synthesize the course materials into a coherent essay; and 5) the effort you put into editing your paper.

Extra Credit

1. Students will earn extra credit for submitting drafts to the campus writing center.

Deadlines

The final exam is due online on Thursday, May 16 at 5pm. If you have problems uploading your paper through the link on the course website, please send your paper to me at [email protected].

Penalties will apply to late papers (I will deduct 10 points for each day the paper is late).

Please feel free to contact Professor Kang with any additional questions.