Using specific historical examples, explain how your understanding of 1) freedom and 2) a free society has changed and deepened since the first days' classes when you took notes on the topics and looked at the first power point on Freedom.
Show what you have learned from a minimum of two periods (As long as you cover these two thoroughly, you can use ANY of the rest of the time periods we have studied as well.)
Periods:
1) You will be required to cover either the 1850s or Reconstruction (you will be given which one shortly before the end of the course.) as one of the 2 you cover.
2) Colonial and Native American early periods)
3) Founding of the Republic
4) 1820-1850, including the Market Revolution.
Be sure to use evidence, including specific actors, events, court cases, movements etc. that marked the evolution of the meaning and actuality of freedom over time.