The book: Contending Voices:John Hollitz 3rd edition
The title of the essay would be Manifest Destiny and Conquest: Thomas Larkin and Jaun Bautista Alvarado. Comepare and contrast viewpoints, then who would you side with.
Questions that could assist the essay:
1.Why do you think Alvarado failed to become the Jeorge Washington of California? Did forces or circumstances beyond his control dictate his fate? Or did he prevent himself from being the father of California?
2.One study of Larkin concluded that he was exuberantly American. Do you agree? What typical American traits did he possess.
3. Some historians have argued that the ethnically diverse American West was a fertile field for cultural fusion, while others have viewed it as a place of cultural conflict and conquest. What light do the lives of Larkin and Alvarado shed on this issue.
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