Essay Prompt:

Discuss the change in American viewpoints about themselves and about independence from the time period of 1750 to 1783.

Use the documents and your knowledge to craft your response. Be sure to include:
1. A thesis which is historically defensible that addresses the prompt. The thesis must consist of one or more sentences located in the introduction.
2. Use of documents to support the argument. This use must be cohesive.
3. Proper footnotes for your documents using The Chicago Manual of Style standards.
4. Providing further evidence by using information not in the documents to support the thesis.
5. Providing greater context by analyzing broader historical events, showing possible contradiction, or other possible avenues of thought.