Visit this US history exam resources page and choose one of the sample responses from the free-response questions. Read one of the sample essays and complete the following evaluation. Think about the scoring guidelines and information about what makes a strong response. Then select specific sections of the essay to rate and comment on. Comment on at least four areas of strength and/or weakness.

Why was control of the atlantic ocean essential to great britain’s success in world war 2

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is

Which of the following would an isolationist support?