Directions: This question is based on the accompanying documents. The documents have been edited for the purposes of this exercise.

In your response you should do the following:

• Thesis: Respond to the prompt with      a historically defensible thesis or claim that establishes a line of      reasoning.
• Contextualization:      Describe a broader historical context relevant to the prompt.
• Evidence      from the Documents: Support an argument in response to the prompt, using      at least six documents.
• Evidence      beyond the Documents: Use at least one additional piece of specific      historical evidence relevant to an argument about the prompt.
• Document      Analysis: For at least three documents, explain how or why the document’s      point of view, purpose, historical situation, and/or audience is relevant      to an argument.
• Historical      Reasoning: Demonstrate a complex understanding of the historical      development that is the focus of the prompt, using evidence to      corroborate, qualify, or modify an argument that addresses the question.