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APUSH Review: The Introductory Paragraph and Thesis Statement

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Comments

  1. Francisco V. says

    May 14, 2014 at 4:31 AM

    In the video, APUSH Review: The Introductory Paragraph and Thesis Statement, you state at 3:15

    “the British took a more ‘hands on approach’ to its colonies. This began an era of salutary neglect…”

    Was the period of salutary neglect not the opposite? Did not the period of salutary neglect represent a ‘hands off’ approach by the British?

    Maybe there is something I am not understanding.

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    • anorris21@yahoo.com says

      May 15, 2014 at 7:23 PM

      Yes, it should have said it ended the era of salutary neglect. Sorry

      Reply
  2. Hope D. says

    May 1, 2015 at 10:17 AM

    Your thesis statement and opening paragraph tips are really helpful! The first essay I wrote using your tips, my teacher left a comment saying it was the best one I did. Thanks!

    Reply
    • anorris21@yahoo.com says

      May 2, 2015 at 1:06 AM

      That’s great to hear, congrats! Good luck on the 8th.

      Reply
  3. Anneke says

    May 7, 2015 at 3:10 AM

    Thesis inspiration, just in case this could be helpful to anyone:
    Analyze the effectiveness of Abolitionism and Women’s Rights Movements achieving their goals in the mid-19th century.

    Many activists involved in the abolitionist or women’s rights movements, such as the Grimke sisters and Frederick Douglass, supported both causes. However, most pressed abolition as a more timely issue, which would directly alleviate human suffering. For this reason, abolitionists were more successful in accomplishing their goals in the mid nineteenth century, while women’s rights activists saw more success in the 1920s and 1960s.

    Abolitionism
    Making the Civil War about slavery
    Through many different mediums
    William Lloyd Garrison’s The Liberator, which called for the immediate and uncompensated end to slavery
    Other newspapers such as Frederick Douglass’s North Star
    and speeches and tours held by abolitionists such as Douglass and Angela Grimke
    Made abolishing slavery an unavoidable, if not sympathetic cause
    Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe especially made an emotional appeal to the masses that drove many to support the abolitionist cause
    Therefore, because of the diverse range of appeals
    as well as the debates over popular sovereignty, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act abolitionists were successful in eventually tailoring the Civil War to their cause
    which eventually resulted in Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.
    Civil War
    Because the Union won the Civil War after various victories such as that at Antietam, abolitionists main goal of the emancipation of slaves was achieved.
    This goal was solidified with the ratification of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments.
    Not necessarily civil rights
    However, because many abolitionists sought not only to end slavery, but also gain civil rights for freed slaves, abolitionist goals that remained after reconstruction were not fulfilled until the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 60s.
    Civil Rights Act of 1964
    Brown v. Board of Education; overturned Plessy v. Ferguson
    Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Women’s Rights
    Because the country’s attention was focused on the Civil War and the slavery issue, women’s rights were pushed to the sidelines in later years
    The sentiments expressed by Frederick Douglass are representative of what took place in history. He supported women’s suffrage, a major goal of the women’s rights movement. However, he believed that emancipation should be the more immediate goal of the nation and the movement, which makes sense as Douglass was a male and former slave.
    1920s
    The 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote, was not passed until 1920, at the end of the Progressive Era, many years after the Civil War.
    1960s
    Broader goals of the women’s rights movement, such as
    Sexual Freedom
    Were not largely achieved until the second wave feminist movement of the 1960s of beyond
    Roe v. Wade
    The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

    Still work to do
    The messages of both movements are still relevant today, and neither has achieved all that they have sought out to
    Abolitionists
    Police Violence
    Classism as a mechanism to enforce unofficial segregation
    Subconscious prejudice
    Other residues of slavery still remain
    Women’s rights
    War on Reproductive Freedom
    Wage Gap
    Discrimination
    Although both movements have at long last achieved many of their goals, there is still work to be done by future generations. It is our turn to foster social change and make our own impact on United States History.

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