Hist 1301 Research Paper

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The research paper topic is: The Age of Reform (1830-1850) and its effect on American society.

You will write one research paper, 3-5 pages, typed, double-spaced, in 12-point font (Times New Roman, Arial, or Courier). You should use 3 to 5 sources, and try to find at least 1 primary source.

Please use MLA format. You must cite your sources in-line, and you must have a Works Cited page. Place your Works Cited page on a separate page at the end of your research paper. I prefer that you do not use block quotes. However, even when you summarize or paraphrase from a source, you must cite that source in-line. You should also consider working with a writing tutor, particularly if you have any issues with writing in good English grammar.

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Research paper topic: The Age of Reform (1830-1850) and its effect on American society. These are something extra for the research paper I received if you need: When choosing how strong to make your paper, you will want to think about active voice versus passive voice. Voice refers to the relationship of a subject and its verb. Active voice refers to a verb that shows the subject acting. Passive voice refers to a verb that shows the subject being acted upon. Active voice makes your sentence stronger, and often more concise. It shows who is performing the action. However, you may want to use passive voice when either you don’t want to show who is performing the action, or you don’t know who is performing the action. This is how to check for Passive Voice guidline: Microsoft Word Tips & Tricks Word will number your pages for you! You want your page numbers to appear in the header of the document (i.e. on the other side of those 1” margins as your paper). To add a header, you can just double-click up in that margin, or go to Insert > Header. To add page numbers: while you’re still in the header tools, look for the Page Number option to the left side of the ribbon: You’ll want to select either Top of Page or Current Position.  Choose Top of Page if: you haven’t written anything else in your header. This option will delete anything else already in the header.  Choose Current Position if: you already wrote your name and want to append the page number to it. Either way you’ll have the choice of various styles (generally you’ll stick with plain) and, for Top of Page, justification (go with the right-most, Plain Number 3). LSC-UP SLRC: 281-401-5310 | UPLibrary-Ref@lonestar.edu | http://www.lonestar.edu/up-library EPatton 6/2014 Sometimes you don’t want the same header on every single page… maybe you have a title page or you’re doing APA style. That’s where the Different First Page option comes in. (If you’re NOT doing something different, don’t use it! You won’t hurt anything, but you will inconvenience yourself!) How You Use It: Check the box! That’s all there is to it. Any content that you may want on the second page onwards as well as the first page will have to be reinserted on page 2, but after that, you’ll be done. Do this before you write anything in your header. Once you tell the first page to be different, anything already written will be moved to the 2nd+ pages, and you’ll have to pull it back to page 1. LSC-UP SLRC: 281-401-5310 | UPLibrary-Ref@lonestar.edu | http://www.lonestar.edu/up-library Microsoft Word Tips & Tricks Word will default to 1” margins for you. Typically you will need to change the font to Times New Roman, size 12 (that’s going to be the standard for probably 99.9% of all your homework). Double-spacing, typically*. You can set up a predefined style for future use! Two ways of getting there: Up in the style bar, you can right-click “Normal” and choose Modify (1). Or you can create a new style by clicking on the little arrow for more options (2a), then clicking New Style (2b). Either way, you’ll end up at a window that looks like this: Here, you’ll name your style and create the basic settings. Choose the Style Type “Linked.” Set the font & size (TNR 12). In the row below that are spacing options: you want double-spaced with 0 pt spacing between paragraphs*. You can also choose First Line Indentation to have your paragraphs indented automatically. In the options at the bottom, make sure “Add to Styles gallery” is checked, and select “New documents based on this template” to keep it available for future use. EPatton 6/2014 * : Word tends to want to add extra spaces between paragraphs. You can see this for yourself by setting double-spacing from the easy shortcut cutton, then viewing the Line Spacing Options through that menu or by clicking the arrow in the lower-right corner of the Paragraph section. ‘After’ needs to be set to 0. This does make a noticeable difference in your document! LSC-UP SLRC: 281-401-5310 | UPLibrary-Ref@lonestar.edu | http://www.lonestar.edu/up-library EPatton 6/2014 Microsoft Word Tips & Tricks One last thing you’ll have to change is the special indentation for sources listed on your Works Cited page. You can do this after you’ve written all of your citations. Don’t worry about the line breaks or indentations when you’re first writing them; just get them down. Take advantage of the page break function to add your Works Cited. Hit Ctrl+Enter or Insert > Page Break to add a blank page after your cursor. Benefit: your Works Cited will stay on its own page no matter what you add to your paper before it. Select all your sources. Go to the Paragraph options (via that little arrow in the lower-right corner). In the middle section titled Indentation, choose “Hanging” from the drop-down list of Special options. The default size should be 0.5”, which is what you want. Hit OK, and everything should be properly indented and spaced for you! Your citations should be arranged alphabetically by the first word in the citation (typically an author’s last name). This is another thing Word can help you out with! With your citations all highlighted, click the Sort button. It should be set to distinguish items by paragraph in ascending order. Hit OK, and you’re done! For information on how to write citations, visit our Citation Help page! LSC-UP SLRC: 281-401-5310 | UPLibrary-Ref@lonestar.edu | http://www.lonestar.edu/up-library
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The Age of Reform and its effect on American society
The Age of Reform - the period between 1830 -1850- is of great significance in the history
of the United States. The events that occurred during that period have a great impact even in the
present day America. The reforms that occurred at the period pertained religion, education, the
abolishment of slavery, fighting for the rights of women, and arts (Harding 4). This paper will
examine main events that made up the Age of Reform and look at the significance of those events
in present-day America.
Education is essential but prior this period, the options for any parent who wanted to take
their children to school was to either part with a considerable amount of money as school fees so
their child could go to school or take their children to the school of the poor. Those who could not
do either chose to let their children stay at home. In 1837, Horace Mann; a lawyer, became head
of Massachusetts board of education. While in the position, he made some improvements to the
education system that came to be recognized all over the country. He lengthened the school year,
so the children attended school for six months in a year; he doubled the salary of the teachers, and
come up with better training methods for teachers. In 1839, Massachusetts started a statesponsored school that trained high school graduates to become teachers. By the 1850s, most states

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in America had come to believe in three things, free education, the right to education for all
children, and all teachers should undergo training.
Education for the girl child at this point w...


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