Assignment Requirements:
Your responses need:
This essay must be 3-4 pages minim

Assignment Requirements:
Your responses need:
This essay must be 3-4 pages minimum 
Each essay must include a thesis statement. You need to make an actual argument that needs to be supported with facts.
Each essay needs to rely on evidence found in classroom lectures, our textbook,  and the OER textbook. YOU MAY NOT use outside sources, like the internet, without prior approval.  Click here for the link to the OER textbook. 
You must use a primary and secondary source. Lectures do not count.
You must cite where you got each piece of evidence [For Example: “Hitler annexed Austria in 1938” (Created Equal) or “African Americans were often forced to take bogus literacy tests before they were outlawed in 1965 (“Voting Literacy Test 1965” in Created Equal) or “The Union Stockyards are an example of Gilded Age industrialism” (Gilded Age Lecture)]
Use in-text citations. 
Essays should ONLY include topics that happened between 1492 and 1877.
Submit essays in word doc or pdf format. Google doc links, pages, odt, or text submissions will not be accepted.
1. The country grew tremendously during the 19th century (1800-1899). Explore how 19th-century Americans decided who was “American” and who wasn’t. Discuss four examples where the qualifications and/or characteristics of Americanism were discussed and debated in the readings.   THIS IS MY QUESTION TO BE ANSWERED. 
USE REVEL PEARSON TEXTBOOK US HISTORY CREATED EQUAL USE IN TEXT CITATIONS