Writing Sample

Task  your job is to create a thesis statement to the question, "Was the Revolutionary War all that "revolutionary" 

Your Thesis statement needs:

• Claim: this is a defensible position
• Roadmap - this is an outline of your main arguments (if you were to write an essay, these would be your body paragraphs)

Please use the writing sample below as a model for how you set up your thesis statement!!

Claim: During the 1790s, foreign affairs contributed more to shaping American politics than did domestic issues. 

Roadmap (outline of main arguments): while the young nation struggled with questions about powers in the new Constitution, ideological conflicts over the French Revolution, foreign policy divisions created by the Napoleonic wars, and our relations with Great Britain did more to divide Americans and promote the formation of two political parties during the 1790s.