Weekend of 11/30

What problems arose with the new territory gained in the Mexican Cession? How did the Mexican War exacerbate political and social tensions between the South and the North?

How did we acquire each region of the country in the continental United States?

How did the introduction of the Wilmot Proviso affect the North and the South?

Why was Congress able to pass the Compromise of 1850? How did the Compromise affect the balance between the South and the North?

What specific events and/or acts were associated with the widening breach between the North and South concerning the problems of slavery?

How did the events of the 1850s increase northern fears that slavery was going to spread to the new territories?

What were the political changes in this period? What parties declined, emerged, and succeeded? Whom did each party appeal to? How did issues in the 1850s impact these parties?

What was the impact of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Thanksgiving

Hello all! You dodn't really think I wouldn't gve you an assignment did you?

In any case here goes:

Notes - Pageant Chapters 17-21
Terms - Corresponding chapters in AMSCO (which means any info from pageant can be used to complete the terms listed in your AMSCO book)

Questions:

1. To what degree and in what ways did slaves in the antebellum South have control over their lives?
2. Why did slaveholders begin to ardently defend the institution of slavery in the 1830s? How did Southerners defend the institution of slavery against the abolitionist critique ? Why did non-slaveholding white people of the South defend slavery?
3. How did the acquisition of new territories in the 1840’s bring the issue of slavery to the forefront of the American consciousness?
4. What was the ideological basis of the new Republican Party? (1850s)

Women's Role and Women in Society

Accoring to the link below, how have historians traditionally treated women throughout American history? What insight does the author provide about the period from 1790-1830? Be specific.

href="http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gentutor/women.html">http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gentutor/women.html

Soujourner Truth link
How are slaves and women alike according to Truth? Do you think it is valid to compare the two? What was the relationship between abolitionism and women's rights?

Zinn Reading: Take good notes on thsi so that you can include relevant information in your outline.

Using the answer to thes questions above, and the sources that we have studied, form an outline which would answer the following prompt. This should be as comprehensive an outline as you could possibly create. Use relevant information and lots of it.

Analyze the changing ideals of American womanhood from the colonial era to the 1850. What factors fostered the emergence of 'republican motherhood' and the 'cult of domesticity'? Assess the extent to which these ideals influenced the lives of women during this time period. Be sure to consider issues of race and class as well.

Women's roles #1

Link for homework

http://www.pinzler.com/ushistory/cultwo.html

Jackson DBQ

Here are some good places to look for primary sources.

http://www.historyteacher.net/APUSH-Course/Weblinks/Weblinks7.htm

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/D/index.htm

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/presiden/jackpap.htm

http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/13.htm

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/home.html