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Assignment:

Prompt Option 1: Trace the growth of slavery between the American Revolution and 1860. What effect did the Market Revolution and the First Industrialization Revolution have on the institution of slavery? What lengths did southern states (like South Carolina) go to in order to protect their "domestic institutions" of slavery? How did slavery specifically shape a unique "southern identity" or "southern nationalism"? How entrenched was slavery in the American South in the first half of the 1800s?

Prompt Option 2: Explain the effect of increased democratization and nationalism on the American identity from the War of 1812 through 1850. How did the expanding right to vote for white men without property further the American promise of equality? What factors contributed to American nationalism and national pride during this period (think about the two foreign wars fought and the development of American foreign policy in 'Latin America' between 1810 and 1850)? In what ways were Americans challenged in their conviction for freedom and equality? Asked another way: how were Americans still not living up to their own accepted convictions? How did the American identity adapt to include Manifest Destiny in the 1840s?

Prompt Option 3: Explain the factors contributing to European immigration to the US from the Market Revolution through the Civil War. Why, for example, do we see increased Irish immigration in the 1840s? What political, economic, and social challenges did these immigrants to the US face through the 1860s? Describe nativism against immigrants, particularly against the Irish in the 1850s.

Prompt Option 4: Trace changes to Native American life in the US from the 1810s through the 1860s. Describe the nature of the US's official policy on Native Americans in the first half of the nineteenth century. Does President Jackson's signing of the Indian Removal Act of 1830 represent a continuance or a change of previous attitudes towards Natives? What was the effect of Jackson's Indian Removal Act? How did ideas of Manifest Destiny and American nationalism affect Native Americans in the 1840s and 1850s?

Prompt Option 5: Trace the growth and evolution of the movement to abolish slavery from the early 1800s through the passage in 1865 of the 13th Amendment. What were the different manifestations of abolitionism from the 1820s through the 1850s? What language and arguments did abolitionists and supporters of colonization use in their cause? How did enslaved people continue to resist slavery through the Civil War?