This document provides background information on key events leading up to and during the War of 1812, including failed invasions of Canada, the burning of Washington D.C., the Battle of Fort McHenry that inspired the Star Spangled Banner, and the Treaty of Ghent that ended the war. It also poses questions about how the war may have impacted American nationalism and identity.
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Final Written Assignment for American History 12-5 pages in APA .docxAKHIL969626
Final Written Assignment for American History 1
2-5 pages in APA format, post in the Drop Box on or before 1 April at 11:59pm
Topics are set forth for your review:
1. Daniel Webster was a sectionalist in his early political career. What were the reasons for his transformation to a nationalist?
2. John C. Calhoun was a nationalist in his early political career. What were the reasons for his transformation to a sectionalist?
3. Discuss the Panic of 1819? Why did it happen?
4. Discuss the Compromise of 1820?
5. Why was the South fated to fight the Civil War?
6. Discuss the Peggy Eaton Affair and why it was so important to President Andrew Jackson?
7. Why was the South so upset over the Tariff of 1828 that it evolved into the Nullification Crisis?
8. Trail of Tears
9. Did Andrew Jackson exceed his constitutional authority during his presidency?
10. Emerson stated that “Mexico will poison us”, what did he mean by that statement?
11. Henry David Thoreau argued and practiced Civil Disobedience to oppose the Fugitive Slave Law. How did he practice it and how has it been used by Gandhi in India and the Civil Rights movement in the 20th century?
12. President Polk proposed a very aggressive expansionist policy in the election of 1844. Please discuss and critique this policy’s successes and failures.
13. President Millard Fillmore has been judged as a failure as President by many historians. Yet he was the one who was instrumental in achieving the Compromise of 1850 thereby avoiding conflict between the North and South. Please reassess his success or failure as President.
14. Bloody Kansas
15. Discuss the accomplishments and failures of the great compromiser, Henry Clay.
16. General Robert E. Lee is considered by many as the greatest general in the Civil War even though both his invasions to the North were failures. Please discuss how these 2 invasions failed and what part did Lee’s decisions play in their failure.
17. What was the significance of Sherman’s March?
18. The Civil War is considered the first modern war, why?
19. What role did the Lincoln play in devising a strategy to win the war?
20. Discuss the achievements and failures of Reconstruction?
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Question 1 Despite the controversial effect it had, the Kansas.docxIRESH3
Question 1
Despite the controversial effect it had, the Kansas-Nebraska act was first proposed for the purpose of:
furthering the construction of a transcontinental railroad.
establishing trade relations with Japan.
outlawing slavery in any new state admitted to the Union.
revising the electoral college.
Question 2
The primary Union objective concerning foreign relations during the war was:
promoting cotton production in India and Africa thereby undermining the South's economy.
promoting a slave revolt in Brazil to incite fears of such revolts within the South.
urging other nations to recognize the Confederate States as a separate country.
keeping Great Britain and France from recognizing or assisting the Confederate states.
Question 3
Which of the following was the primary reason the South was unable to unify as a country or financially support the war effort?
Answer
Davis did not have the political experience Lincoln did and thus was unable to unite the people.
Their nation was built on a shared belief in states' rights which thus inhibited their ability to work as a single nation.
The lack of transportation routes inhibited the dispersal of newspapers and other forms of information.
The North imposed a naval blockade.
Question 4
After the Democratic Party split in 1860, those Northerners who opposed the war, the draft, emancipation, and other steps Lincoln pursued were called:
War Democrats.
Copperheads.
Appeasers.
Damn Yankees.
Question 5
In the 1850s, nativism was rampant throughout the country. Nativism can best be described as a fear of and contempt for:
immigrants.
Native Americans.
African Americans.
the indigent.
Question 6
During the 1864 march through Georgia, known as the "March to the Sea" what man seized, burned, and destroyed everything in his path to Savannah?
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
William T. Sherman
Question 7
The actual name of the Know-Nothing party was the:
Democratic Party.
American Party.
Whig Party.
Republican Party
.
Question 8
From Matthew Perry's efforts, in 1854 the United States began trading with:
Cuba.
Japan.
China.
Spain.
Question 9
The first Union strategy for the Civil War, developed by Winfield Scott, planned to slowly squeeze the South with a blockade at sea and on the Mississippi. This strategy took the name:
Market Garden.
Mongoose.
Anaconda.
Cotton Diplomacy.
Question 10
The events that marked "Bleeding Kansas":
were violent but considered unimportant to the nation.
showed how violent sectional feelings could become.
were quickly quelled and the territory admitted as a slave state.
demonstrated that attacks on immigrants would not be prosecuted.
Question 11
Refer to this map as you match the items below.
Answer
This battle was a terrible slaughter for Lee but the Union forces were also so badly battered that General George Meade decided n ...
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12. Washington Burned-
August 1812
• As British Approach, Dolley
Madison packs up valuables
• Gilbert Stuart’s portrait of
Washington saved
• British Conduct mock
trial, burn White House
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13. Battle of Fort McHenry,
1814
Oh Say Can You See
By the Dawn’s Early Light…
-- Francis Scott Key
16. The Battle of New Orleans
January 8, 1815
What is the problem with this date?
17.
18. Nationalism?
• What impact will this 2nd
War for Independence
have on the way
Americans feel about
American Identity? How
will they view
themselves?
