fundamental causative factors of both the American Revolution and the American Civil War

Part I. ESSAY.  Answer any TWO essay questions using specific details from the lectures and your assigned readings. (40 points each)

 

  1. Discuss how the following apparently opposing ideas might be considered

fundamental causative factors of both the American Revolution and the American Civil War: “the right to rule oneself (and others)” versus “being ruled by others.”

 

 

  1. Discuss the development of an expressly American identity (as characterized by the following quote) from the colonial period through the arguments leading up to the Civil War. Be sure to analyze the various perspectives and concepts from different theory that led to the formation of an idea of American identity.

 

“America is the only nation in the world that is founded on creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence.”

                                    ­­—G. K. Chesterton (1922)

 

  1. Discuss the arguments of the Federalists and Anti-Federalists and their competing visions of the emerging republic, including their arguments over the role the central government in the creation and growth of the nation.

 

 

  1. Describe with detail how slavery was intimately connected with the emergence of this new nation, and the impact of the “peculiar institution” from the early years of national development through the Civil War.

 

Part II.  Identify and give the significance of any FOUR of the following.     (5 points each)

 

  1. American Exceptionalism
  2. Natural Rights
  3. Cotton Gin
  4. “Republican Iron Cages”
  5. Market Revolution
  6. Manifest Destiny
  7. Missouri Compromise
  8. Three Fifths Compromise
  9. Dred Scott Decision
  10. Emancipation Proclamation
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