Your paper needs to be grammatically correct and free of spelling errors.

Opinion Essay

For this essay you will write a 2 – 3 page paper describing what you think is the most important event in American History from the beginnings to 1877, and give me three reasons why it is important. You may pick any event, person of significance, war, movement, invention, social change, etc. However, you do need to do some specific things:

1. Define and explain the thing. You will tell me what it is, why it came about, what are the details about it. This needs to be at least one paragraph, and you need to be very detailed in your description. Bring in materials from your textbook as your factual base.

2. Reason 1 (about a paragraph)

3. Reason 2 (about a paragraph)

4. Reason 3 (about a paragraph)

5. Then, explain the significance of the event on our world today. Did it impact how we live today? Explain why or why not. Be detailed

Your paper will need to be:

1. 2 to 3 pages in length (double-spaced, 12 point font.)

2. You need at least 5 sources. (Credible sources – books, magazine articles, journals, newspaper or tv news, etc.)

3. Your paper needs to be grammatically correct and free of spelling errors.

4. You may use any citation style you wish (MLA, Chicago, APA), just make sure you are consistent.

Be sure to proofread your paper. Many mistakes can be fixed by reading your paper out loud. This essay is worth 50 points total.

Should you have any questions, please email me.