Select and respond to one (1) of the two (4) prompts below. You will write one (1) essay. Have your historical source rubrics, my comments in the discussions, and the chapters of Building an American Republic with you as you create your answers. I recommend you list the examples in an outline of some kind you want to use before you write your essays.
Each quote should be followed by a reference. Use the format we have used in our discussions and that I demonstrate in the prompts. Ex: (Author, Title, Location)
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Each Essay Should Include…
five (5) paragraphs with at least five (5) sentences each.
at least three (3) quotes from our main text Building the American Republic with references in parentheses.
https://www.bibliopen.org/p/bopen/9780226300658
at least three (3) quotes from primary historical sources in Voices of Freedom with references in parentheses.
“The revolutionary generation’s emphasis on liberty raised questions about the future of slavery in the new republic. Slaves appreciated that by defining freedom as a universal right, the revolutionist had devised a weapon that could be used against their own bondage.”(Foner, Voices of Freedom, Petition of slaves to the massachusetts Legislature)
“The passage of the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850 tested in the most direct way the relationship between law and liberty. Numerous northerners that they would not obey the new measure, which abrogated the local laws that sought to prevent the kidnapping of free black people.”(Foner, Voices of Freedom, Resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act)
“In thirty years before the outbreak of the Civil War, proslavery thought came to dominate southern public life. Racism formed one pillar of the proslavery ideology”(Foner,Voices of Freedom, George Fitzhugh The Pro Slavery Argument).
at least one (1) quote from one of my presentations, from either the slide or the captions, in our course canvas with a reference in parenthesis.
“The abolishment movement was centered on those parts of the US where slavery had first ended, and which were least connected to the southern economy.”(Presentation/Northern Culture Reform, 1815-1860)
Watson describes a distinct and separate “northern culture of reform” and a “world of the South” in the US in the decades before the Civil War (Watson, Building the American Republic, chapters 9 & 10). Why did these regional societies exist? Were they completely different? Did they have anything in common? How were they connected? What was their most important difference?
