Question 1
• How did the Seven Year's War change the approach of the British imperial government toward the colonies?
• Explain how that led to a crisis over representation and taxation.
Question 2
• Discuss the participation of women in the American Revolution, and changes the political philosophy of republicanism brought for women in the wake of the Revolution.
Question 3
• How did the authors of the Constitution create a balance between federal and state governments, and between large and small states?
• What compromises did the Constitution make on the institution of slavery?
Question 4
• In what ways did Jefferson's presidency betray his original vision for the new republic?
In what ways did it fulfill that vision?
Question 5
What improvements did the new "cult of domesticity" bring to women's lives, and what disadvantages did the new conception of femininity have
Question 6
Explain the "American System" and its benefits.
Question 7
• Discuss the different working conditions of slaves in the antebellum South.
Question 8
• Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
• How did he and other abolitionists change conceptions of race in American society?
Question 9
• How did the victory over Mexico intensify the political conflict over slavery?
Question 10
How did slaves turn the war for the Union into a war for liberation?
Question 11
• What did freedom mean to African-Americans in the South after the Civil War?
• How did former slaveholders define their freedom and that of their former slaves?
• Discuss Radical Reconstruction as a Constitutional Revolution.