Q Potential Essay Questions Your test is going to be composed of four free response questions. I expect you to write at least 6 sentences for each free response question with specific examples to prove your arguments. Below are the potential questions that will be on the test. 1. Does Thomas Jefferson deserve to be on Mt. Rushmore? List and describe two historic examples to prove your argument and a third historic example to disprove your argument. 2. Was the ‘Revolution of 1800’ a success? List and describe two historic examples to prove your argument and a third historic example to disprove your argument. 3. Should the War of 1812 be seen as the ‘Second American Revolution’? List and describe three historic examples to prove your argument. 4. Did the Marshall Court have a positive impact on American history? List and describe two historic examples to prove your argument and a third historic example to disprove your argument. 5. Was the ‘Era of Good Feelings’ appropriately named? List and describe two historic examples to prove your argument and a third historic example to disprove your argument. 6. Following the War of 1812 did the United States experience more Nationalism or Sectionalism? List and describe two historic examples to prove your argument and a third historic example to disprove your argument. 7. Were Americans right to discriminate against Irish and German immigration? List and describe two historic examples to prove your argument and a third historic example to disprove your argument. 8. Compare and contrast German and Irish immigration. List and describe three historic examples to answer this question (2 compares vs 1 contrast or 2 contrasts vs 1 compare). 9. Did the Industrial and Market Revolutions do more to cause social or economic change? List and describe two historic examples to prove your argument and a third historic example to disprove your argument. 10. Which invention during the Industrial Revolution did the most to impact American history? List and describe three historic examples to prove your argument. 11. Does Andrew Jackson deserve to be on the $20 bill? List and describe two historic examples to prove your argument and a third historic example to disprove your argument. 12. Compare and contrast the First and Second Party Systems. List and describe three historic examples to answer this question (2 compares vs 1 contrast or 2 contrasts vs 1 compare). 13. Did the ‘Age of Mass Democracy’ do more to maintain continuity or to foster change? List and describe two historic examples to prove your argument and a third historic example to disprove your argument. 14. Should the Second Great Awakening be seen as a turning point in American history? List and describe two historic examples to prove your argument and a third historic example to disprove your argument. 15. Which Abolitionist reformer should be most celebrated in American history? List and describe three historic examples to prove your argument. 16. Did slaves have agency (control) in the society of the Antebellum South? List and describe two historic examples to prove your argument and a third historic example to disprove your argument. 17. Did Southern Antebellum society contain elements of democracyList and describe two historic examples to prove your argument and a third historic example to disprove your argument. 18. Excluding the Abolitionist movement, were Antebellum reformers able to create change in American society? List and describe two historic examples to prove your argument and a third historic example to disprove your argument.