{"id":"study-history-exam-id-terms","audience":"college","category":"studying","technique":"format","track":"study","title":"Prep exam ID terms in the who-what-when-why format","free":false,"task":"Your American History midterm has ID questions graded on who/what, when and why it matters. Get exactly 3 numbered lines, one per term your professor listed, each in the form 'Term: who/what | when | why it matters', each under 28 words, plain text. Use only your lecture notes, including the corrected date for the Homestead Act.","materialLabel":"Your lecture notes (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"HIST 2010 - American History, 1850-1900 - Prof. Whitaker - Midterm ID terms\n\nID FORMAT (Prof. W): \"Who or what, when, and WHY IT MATTERS. Significance is half the points.\"\n\nID TERMS ON THE MIDTERM (these 3):\n\n1. HOMESTEAD ACT\n- What: law giving 160 acres of western land to settlers who farmed it for 5 years\n- When: I wrote 1872.\n   ** Prof. W: \"1862! Same year as the Pacific Railway Act, both passed during the Civil War.\" **\n- Why: pushed millions of settlers west; took land from Native nations\n\n2. EXODUSTERS\n- Who: Black Southerners who moved to Kansas\n- When: 1879\n- Why: fled violence and the end of Reconstruction; sought land and freedom\n\n3. DAWES ACT\n- What: split tribal land into individual allotments\n- When: 1887\n- Why: broke up Native communal landholding; tribes lost about two-thirds of their land\n\nNot on the midterm: Gilded Age politics (after the midterm).\nMidterm Nov 18.","rules":[{"type":"numberedItems","count":3},{"type":"maxWords","max":100},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Asking for definitions","why":"The AI defines each term but often skips why it matters, which is half the points.","fix":"Show the shape: \"Term: who/what | when | why it matters\".","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Not saying how many lines","why":"The AI picks its own number, and it usually picks more lines than you need.","fix":"Be exact: \"Exactly 3 numbered lines.\"","checks":["numberedItems"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for a total and it often lands 20% over.","fix":"Cap each part: \"each part under 9 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]},{"title":"Missing the correction","why":"Your wrong date is still in the material.","fix":"Add: \"Homestead Act is 1862, per Prof. Whitaker.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Letting in outside facts","why":"The AI knows a lot of history and may add it.","fix":"Add: \"Only my lecture notes.\"","checks":["r2","plainText"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Says how many terms","patterns":["\\b(3|three)\\b.{0,25}term"]},{"label":"Shows the line shape","patterns":["\\|","why it matters","who.{0,10}when","format"]},{"label":"Uses the correction","patterns":["1862","correct"]},{"label":"Sets a length limit","patterns":["\\d+\\s*words","word (limit|count)","under \\d+"]},{"label":"Says to use only the material","patterns":["only.{0,30}(notes|material|source|excerpt|text|reading|passage|draft|facts|article|handout|sheet|guide|chapter|data|list)","no outside","don't add","do not add","don't invent","lecture"]}],"hint":"ID answers are graded on a set shape. Show the AI that shape, especially 'why it matters', and point it to the corrected date.","rubricLabels":["Has 3 lines for the Homestead Act, Exodusters and Dawes Act, each in the form 'Term: who/what | when | why it matters'","The Homestead Act is dated 1862 (the correction, not 1872), and every line includes why it matters","Uses only the lecture notes, with no Gilded Age politics or outside facts"]}