Write out the question as well as the answer to it. Please answer each question thoroughly, meaning more than 1 or 2 lines. These are not meant to be essay questions, but show me that you understand the who/what/where/when/why of the topic that the question addresses. ALSO, number your work consecutively, so even if you are answering question #s 1, 2, 5 and 9, you would number them 1, 2, 3, and 4. DO NOT skip numbers in the numbering sequence. Please be sure to give EACH Chapter its own discrete set of numbering, meaning that Chapter 1 would start 1, 2, 3, and then Chapter 2, would begin again with 1, 2, 3 – in other words, DO NOT have all of the Chapters strung together in one long line of numbering. Do not write in questions and then leave them unanswered — only questions AND answers, please. And lastly, please make sure your questions and answers are clearly delineated from another through the use of underlining, bold-faced type, or simply separating them onto different lines. — all of this is to make my job of grading MUCH quicker and easier. Thanks!
Chapter 11
Please answer the 5 questions in bold face type, and 1 of your own choosing.
Briefly characterize
The Planter elites?
The substantial proprietors?
The small-holding planters and yeomen?
The poor freemen?
In brief: How was Texas settled and how did she become independent?
Why was it that the “South remained an economic colony”?
How did evangelical Christianity intersect with and influence the lives of slaves?
How did slaves resist the oppression of slavery?
What was meant by the term “manifest destiny”?
How did horses and European weapons change the lives of the Plains Indians?
How did the Election of 1844 hinge on the issue of expansion”?
Chapter 12
Please answer the 8 questions in bold face type, and 1 of your own choosing.
What was the Free Soil movement?
Briefly discuss the land and racial issues that emerged in California after the Mexican American War?
Why was California’s application for statehood problematic, and what was the Compromise of 1850?
What methods did slaves and abolitionists employ to counter the federal Fugitive Slave Act?
What was the Kansas/Nebraska Act and what effect did it have?
Describe the emergence of the Republican Party; what did it stand for?
What is the meaning of the term “Bleeding Kansas”?
What was the Dred Scott Decision and what effect did it have?
What was Abraham Lincoln’s view of slavery from the 1840s into the late 1850s, and how did it evolve?
Who was John Brown and how was he significant?
Briefly discuss the nativism of the 1850s and does anything about this phenomenon strike you as interesting in terms of recent events in the U.S.?
