Write on one of these prompts for Essay #2. Be sure to inclu…
Write on one of these prompts for Essay #2. Be sure to include the number of the option, so I know which question you are answering. Option 1. John Blassingame wrote, “Just as the school was the major institution for ‘Americanizing’ nineteenth-century European migrants, the church was the single most important institution for the ‘Americanization’ of the bondsman.” In a well-organized essay that discusses (1) Americanization (or acculturation) (2) the major institutions that helped produce a culture that was both African and American, and (3) the transformation of American familial roles that led to the creation of America’s first democratic family in the slave quarters (where men and women shared authority and responsibility, defend or refute Blassingame’s statements about education, religion, politics, and social structures prevalent in slave communities. Option 2. Four million people lived in America in 1790. Compare and contrast the ethnic, religious, and political characteristics of each region of the country and their significance in the emergence of the new nation. Option 3. Andrew Jackson championed states’ rights over national, minority, or personal rights. Using the examples of Indians and Mormons, describe and evaluate how the trampling of these minorities’ rights during these “removals” was justified and carried out. Consider including Red Bird, John Ross, and the Cherokee Supreme Court cases in your response. Option 4. Perhaps the most lasting legacy of the Jeffersonian period was territorial expansion. Explain republican ideology and the precedence (land policy/ordinances/Constitutional and sectional issues) that allowed for it. Discuss the events leading up to the Louisiana Purchase, motives and contributions of the Lewis and Clark expedition, nationalism following the War of 1812, and the international treaties and agreements with Britain, Spain, and Mexico and how they affected the new Republic. Option 5. Describe America’s foreign policy and international confrontations from the end of the revolution to 1850. Include a discussion of Federalist, Jeffersonian, and Jacksonian achievements or failings, wars, treaties, territorial acquisitions, etc. Option 6. Discuss the development and characteristics of slavery in the Upper and Lower South. What conditions personified the typical lifestyle of a plantation slave? How did white Southerners view and defend slavery, and how many Southerners were slaveholders? How did slavery fit into the three-tiered hierarchy of race in the South? Draw information from Up from Slavery and Blassingame’s Plantation Life in your response.
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