Essаy Questiоns Answer twо оf the following questions. Eаch essаy is worth 25 points. Write your answers clearly with a #2 pencil on the Written Response Sheets provided with the exam, and be sure to include the option number, so I know which question you are answering. Option 1: Reforming personal, community, and societal ills was a major theme in antebellum America. Discuss the reasons why these reforms came about, and their historical antecedents, and provide several examples of each. Discuss ideas relating to individual and social responsibility as they affected nineteenth-century ideas about crime, poverty, and mental illness. How did the Protestant work ethic and Puritan views regarding hard work and salvation connect to the antebellum reform movements? What was their legacy? Option 2: What were the causes of the Civil War? Analyze which ones you think were the most critical. Please explain each issue and how they culminated in southern secession and armed conflict. Option 3: Explain the strategies and tactics of the Civil War. What advantages and disadvantages did the North & South possess? How did these factor into determining the ultimate result? Finally, critique the successes and failures of North and South in achieving their goals. Option 4: Evaluate Reconstruction’s aims and objectives, its successes and failures, and the different forms it took (i.e., presidential, congressional, constitutional, practical). Chronicle the economic, political, legal, and social ramifications for the freedmen and southern whites. What causes ended Reconstruction and what was Reconstruction’s legacy? Option 5: What role did the American West play before, during, and after the Civil War? How did the Civil War affect the West, especially during the period between 1860 and 1877? (Possible themes include territories, Laws; transportation, communications, settlement, technology, mining, military, Indian affairs, women’s suffrage, the Civil War, etc.) Option 6: Analyze the origins of Manifest Destiny and the motivations that took people overland to the Rocky Mountains, New Mexico, Texas, Oregon, Utah, and California. In your answer, discuss the economic, political, and military issues involved, the emergence of feelings of racial and cultural superiority, and the unique aspects of each migration.