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APUSH Short Answer Assignment Road to Civil War & Reconstruction Instructions: For this assignment you are required to answer Option 1 and Option 2. Then you’ll choose one of the other two short answer questions to address in a Word document. Reminders for writing responses to Short Answer Questions: 1. Write complete sentences in your own words. Bullet points or an outline are unacceptable. 2. Watch for conventions like punctuation, capitalization and spelling. 3. For Short Answer Questions on the AP USH exam, you will make a claim, support your claim with evidence. 4. Organize your response and label each response ‘a,’ ‘b,’ and ‘c’ (if there is a Part C. 5. Address all parts of the question. 6. Focus on what the question is really asking. Stay on topic. Save the document to your computer, close it and then upload it to the Dropbox in your course.
Option 1 (REQUIRED): Frank Triplett, “The March of Destiny,” 1883. Answer Parts (a), (b), and (c). a. The red running through the limited amount of light, in this image, is the historical view called Manifest Destiny: the strong support for the U.S. expansion into the continent, which was perceived to be the inevitable formation of the country with divine mandate. b. Shown in the picture, the Louisiana Purchase, in 1803, was a grand contribution to the history shown. This purchase increased the size of the United States by 2 times, provided new territories for settlement and pushed a expansion farther westward, substituting the Manifest Destiny philosophy of territorial expansion. c. The picture indicates a process, which is powered by expansionist policy of Manifest Destiny and the competition between the tribes for the ancestral lands of Native Americans, that finally results in genocide of Native Americans. There were conflicts like the Trail of Tears and the Indian Wars which followed and so the Native American people also experienced further losses which often led to their suffering in this particular time from 1844 to 1980.
Option 2 (REQUIRED): “The cargo trade with San Francisco grew briskly, but more dramatic changes came when Chinese, also succumbing to gold fever, raced for California. . . . In 1849, a total of 300 people went, followed by 450 in 1850 and 2,700 in 1851. Many returned with gold, showing that it really existed. Foreign and Chinese shipping merchants whipped up business by circulating placards, maps, and pamphlets greatly exaggerating the availability of gold. The numbers peaked in 1852. [British] Governor Bonham announced that 30,000 Chinese had embarked from Hong Kong that year. . . . “Despite the fact that the number of passengers to California leveled off after 1852, the stream of people traveling to and fro across the Pacific . . . never ceased. . . . Even after the gold rush, Chinese continued sailing to the US West Coast to work on the railroads, as well as in lumbering, fisheries and agriculture, and a host of other occupations.” Elizabeth Sinn, historian, Pacific Crossing: California Gold, Chinese Migration, and the Making of Hong Kong , 2013 “The California legislature passed the Foreign Miners’ Tax, a simple code that would compel thousands of miners from Latin American and China to leave the United States. The tax required all miners who were not US citizens to buy a license for the monthly fee of twenty dollars (about four hundred dollars in today’s currency); the tax collector would receive three dollars, and the rest would be split between the county and the state. Irish, English, Canadian, and German miners immediately protested, and the law was quickly rewritten to exempt any ‘free white person’ or any miner who could become an American citizen. . . . “At the beginning of 1850, fifteen thousand Mexicans were mining in the southern Sierra Nevada. After the Foreign Miners’ Tax was enacted, ten thousand left the gold fields, most to return to Mexico. The town of Columbia shrank from a lively center of ten thousand miners and shopkeepers to an abandoned camp of nine or ten men. . . . By 1860, four-fifths of the Latino population had been driven from the gold country.” Jean Pfaelzer, historian, Driven Out , 2007 Answer Parts (a), (b), and (c). a. Immigration laws, to which Sinn and Pfaelzer are referring in their historical perspectives, is, however, likely to be one of the arena conflicts they usually write about. Sinn draws attention to the stories of the Chinese immigrants, while Pfaelzer discusses the effects of the veil of secrecy on Latinos. b. The immigration to the Pacific coast in the 1850s and 1860s, depicted in the book "Making
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