Answer the following in complete sentences. These answers should be 3-5 sentences in length.
1. Either Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson said the following: "Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." Who said it and why?Please note that if you only tell me who said it and don't include the WHY that you will only receive 4 points out of 10 on this question.
2. Using the South Carolina Declaration of Secession as your evidence, what was the cause of the American Civil War? Provide 2 specific examples from the Declaration to back up your assertion.
3. How did freedmen understand emancipation? Give two examples.
4. How accurate is it to describe Lincoln as the Great Emancipator?
5. What role did the expansion of the United States play in the coming of the American Civil War?
6. Based on the Trail of Tears video, who do you think faces the most blame for the Trail of Tears?
7. "You may free the slave in the South, but he is nevertheless a slave North or South. His shackles are only to be cast of by returning to the land of his forefathers. Here he is surrounded by a wall of prejudice as indestructible as the everlasting hills. The fires of the volcano are not more inextinguishable than thisprejudice, and we would therefore remove the black man from its influence, instead of encouraging him to break it down by an insolent bearing towards those who are in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, hisintellectual superiors."
This newspaper editorial was either written by an abolitionist or a colonizationist. Which one is most likely and why?Please note that if you only tell me who said it and don't include the WHY that you will only receive 4 points out of 10 on this question.
8. Explain why Andrew Jackson referred to the results of the Election of 1824 as a "Corrupt Bargain."
9. How was the Lowell textile mill designed to be a model for American industrialization? What problems were they trying to prevent?
10. The Jacksonian era is often referred to as the Age of the Common Man. How accurate is this statement with regards to politics and economics?