HW for 4/14

Please read pages 303-310. Please answer these questions:

1. What were slave codes? What function did they serve? How were they applied?
2. How was slave life shaped by the slave's relationship with his or her owner?
3. Explain the debate over the actual material condition of slavery.
4. How did slavery in the cities differ from slavery on the plantation? What effect did urban slavery have on the "peculiar institution" and on the relationship between white and black?
5. How extensive was the practice of manumission in the South?
6. What was the status of the freed slave in the South? How did this compare with the status of freed people in the North?
7. Explain the characteristics of the foreign and domestic slave trade. On what grounds was this trade criticized? How did the South answer this criticism?
8. How did the slave respond to slavery? What evidence exists to show that slaves did not accept their condition without protest and, in some cases, outright defiance?
9. What were the most widely recognized slave revolts? What did they accomplish?

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HW due 4/30

Please read pages 294-298.
Answer the following questions:
1. What was "the most important economic development in the South of the mid-nineteenth century?" What caused this, and what was its economic impact?
2. What were the agricultural regions of the South, and what crops were grown in each?
3. How did cotton become "king" in the South? What did this mean for the development of the region?
4. What role did the "business class" in the South play in the region's economic development? What elements was most important in this group, and why?
5. What is meant by the antebellum South had a "colonial" economy?

HW: Due Monday

Please read pages 234-246.
Answer the following questions, in your own words.

1. What were the general characteristics of "Jacksonian Democracy" [its philosophy, practice, etc.]?
2. How did the spoils system fit into Jackson's "democratic" plans? What other means did he use to bring more people into the political process?
3. What groups were excluded from this widening of political opportunity? Why?
4. What was the effect of this growth of democracy? How did it change, or not change, the American political system?
5. Why did South Carolinians refer to the Tariff of 1828 as the "Tariff of Abomination?"
6. What was John C. Calhoun's theory of nullification?
7. What was the "Kitchen Cabinet?" Who were its members? How did it come into existence?
8. What were the origins of the Calhoun-Jackson split? How did the Eaton Affair contribute to this division?
9. What was the major point of disagreement between Webster and Hayne? What arguments were advanced on either side?
10. What was the compromise passed in 1833? What role did the force bill play in this? What actions did South Carolina take in response to these two laws?
    
11. What were the whites' attitudes toward Native American tribes? How did they contribution to the decision in favor of their removal westward?
12. What was the program (inherited by Jackson) designed to deal with the Indians who lived east of the Mississippi? What happened when this program was applied to the Cherokee in Georgia?
13. Explain the Supreme Court's decisions regarding the Indian tribes and Jackson's response. Be sure to name each case mentioned.
    
14. How did Jackson's action in the matter of the Cherokee removal correspond to his views on the role of the president and on the issue of states' rights?
15. How were Jackson's views concerning the Indians "little different" from those of most white Americans? What was the meaning of "removal?"

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Works Cited is due on April 24.
Quiz questions due on April 20.
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