Problem
1) Describe how the policies of the Jackson administration contributed to the Panic of 1837.
2) Why was the issue of Missouri statehood so controversial and how did Missouri Compromise mark a turning point in the Sectional Crisis?
3) Explain how Market Revolution led to an economic divergence between the North and South in the years leading up to the Civil War.
4) Explain the connection between the Cotton Revolution and the enslavement of African Americans in the South.
5) Explain the twofold problem of slavery in the cotton South.
6) Describe how the idea of the "benevolent empire" affected the reform movements of the Second Great Awakening.
7) Why did southern planters see Florida as so valuable in the early nineteenth century? And how did Native Americans make it so difficult to secure?
8) What was the significance of the 1857 Scott v. Sanford decision?
9) How did federal officers and Congress respond to people escaping slavery fleeing into their encampments?
10) How did racial violence shape post-Civil War southern politics?