Discuss the basic dilemma confronting the Republicans in their foreign policy objectives and show how that dilemma was resolved only by declaring war on Great Britain in 1812.3.
Discuss and analyze the impact that the War of 1812 had on both American foreign policy and domestic politics in the period from 1815 through the election of 1824.4.
How had the economy, class structure, and value systems of the U.S. changed between 1800 and 1850 and what explains those changes?
Part II1. What explains the development of the 2nd party system of Democrats and Whigs from 1824-1840 and how and why did the two parties differ in their ideological appeals to the voters?2.
Why and how did the 2nd party system of Democrats and Whigs break down as American politics became sectionalized between the Mexican War and the election of 1860?
3. What made the Confederacy competitive in a war that began with the Union having a much larger resource base to draw upon and what factors, including but not limited to Lincoln’s s decision to emancipate the slaves, primarily accounted for Union victory in the Civil War?
4. Trace the freeing of the slaves between 1861 and 1865 and delineate the roles played by the enslaved themselves, Lincoln, Congress, the Union army, and antislavery activists, white and black, in the North.
Requirements: 1000 Words per Question
