1. Consider the Republican Party of Abraham Lincoln. Didit, in its  policies and programs, its understanding of the  Constitution  and the  proper relation between the states and the national  government,  owe more  to the  tradition  of Alexander Hamilton and the Federalist  Part y ,  or was  it more in the  tradition  of Thomas Jefferson and the  Jeffersonian Republican Party? Why? Explain and support your  answer. 2. Describe and discuss  whit e - Indian relations from the colonial  period through  the  mid-nineteenth century. 3. Describe and discuss relations between blacks and whites from  the earliest colonial period to the end of the Civil War.(Include in  your discussion free blacks as well  as  slaves.) 4. Describe and explain how and why national  political  parties arose in  the United States and how the party system changed from  Washington’s administration to  Lincoln’s. 5. Inan essay, considertheAmericaneconomyfromthe ratification of the Constitution to 1865. Inwhatmajorwayshad it changedover those years? Why? 6. Write an essay in which you describe howthenation’s borders  expanded from  1783  to the Civil  War. 7. “The  Constitution  of  1787  was intended by its framers to create a government  that would identify and  implement  the public good rather than the public will. But by Andrew Jackson’s election, it was clear  that something  had gone very wrong, that a national  government  had  been created that sought to identify and  implement  the public will rather  than the public  goo d . ” a. Is this an accurate statement? Why or why not? Discuss in an essa y . 8. “In  1865  at  Appomattox  Court House, it was not only Lee  who surrendered to Grant,  it  was Jefferson who surrendered to  Hamilton . ” Discuss in an essay. (Hint: go back and review both Hamilton’s and Jefferson’s ideas about implied powers and the  Constitution,  about  the proper distribution of powers between the national and  state government s . ) .

1. 1.
Consider the Republican Party of Abraham Lincoln. Didit, in
its
policies
and programs, its understanding
of the
Constitution
and the
proper
relation between the states and the national
government,
owe more
to
the
tradition
of Alexander Hamilton
and the Federalist
Part
y
,
or was
it
more in the
tradition
of Thomas Jefferson and the
Jeffersonian
Republican Party? Why?
Explain and support your
answer.
2.

2. Describe and discuss
whit
e
-
Indian
relations from the colonial
period
through
the
mid-nineteenth century.
3.
Describe and discuss relations between blacks and whites from
the
earliest colonial period to the end of the Civil War.(Include in
your
discussion free blacks as well
as
slaves.)
4.
Describe and explain how and why national
political
parties arose in
the
United
States and how the party system changed from
Washington’s
administration
to
Lincoln’s.

3. 5.
Inan
essay,
considertheAmericaneconomyfromthe
ratification
of
the
Constitution
to
1865.
Inwhatmajorwayshad
it
changedover
those
years?
Why?
6.
Write an essay in which you describe howthenation’s
borders
expanded
from
1783
to the Civil
War.
7.
“The
Constitution
of

4. 1787
was intended by its framers to create a
government
that would identify and
implement
the public good
rather
than the public will. But by Andrew Jackson’s election, it was
clear
that
something
had gone very wrong, that a national
government
had
been
created that sought to identify and
implement
the public will rather
than
the public
goo
d
.
”
a.
Is this an accurate statement?
Why or why not?
Discuss in an essa
y
.

5. 8.
“In
1865
at
Appomattox
Court House, it was not only Lee
who
surrendered to Grant,
it
was Jefferson who surrendered to
Hamilton
.
”
Discuss in an essay. (Hint: go back and review both Hamilton’s
and
Jefferson’s ideas about implied
powers and the
Constitution,
about
the
proper
distribution
of powers between the national and
state
government
s
.
)