Roles of the United States Federal Army in policing and settling the Western Territories in the mid to late 1800’s

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Instructor Instructions… INSTRUCTIONS as attached. Senior Thesis Paper: Your Senior Thesis will meet the following criteria: – 25-30 pages long, typed, double-spaced, in a twelve-point font, with one inch margins. – It is a unique contribution to your chosen area of historical research. This requirement can be fulfilled by – using under-utilized or unutilized primary source materials; – identifying and addressing an unacknowledged problem of historical sourcing or interpretation; – applying conceptual categories in a way that offers new insight into established areas of historical scholarship; – making innovative use of interpretive theory in the analysis of your sources. – In short, your paper must offer something in its interpretations or in its presentation of the evidence that cannot be found elsewhere. – You need to have an argument that you are trying to prove. This is more than just retelling events that occurred; you must analyze those events and support a specific thesis. – All of your citations need to be either footnotes or endnotes in Rampolla/Turabian form, the Notes and Bibliography style from the Chicago Manual of Style. The Online Chicago Manual of Style can be found at – You need to have at least 15 primary sources, and at least 15 secondary sources. – At least 3 of the primary sources must not be from a digital source. – At least 6 of the secondary documents must be monographs, not articles. – You will have to have a bibliography also in Rampolla/Turabian form. The bibliography will be divided between primary and secondary sources. – The grading rubric for your paper is located here: – You must follow the Style Guide. Style Guide: These rules must be followed in your paper. – Margins will be one inch and the font size should be 12 point. – Ellipses do not normally start or end quotations, but are only used within quotations. Do not use the ellipse character, but use this character sequence: . – Any quote over three lines will be a block quote; block quotes will be singlespaced and double-indented. – Know the difference between “its” and “it’s.” – Know what [sic] is and how to use it. – Know what “Ibid” is and how to use it. – The American style to put punctuation (period, comma, questions mark, semicolon, colon) before the ending double quotation mark. – No extra blank lines between paragraphs. – Put page numbers on each page.