Assignment
1) What is your reaction to this image? What, if anything, does it tell about how Americans saw themselves during this time period?
2) What do you think of this idea? (All would, in their own way, lay claim to the freedom and equality promised, if not fully realized, by the Revolution.)
3) What were the consequences of Gabriel's Rebellion? (Gabriel's Rebellion)
4) What impact did the Haitian Revolution have on U.S. history? (The Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) inspired free and enslaved Black Americans, and terrified white Americans.)
5) What is your reaction to this image?
6) How did American ideas about race shift in this period? (The first decades of the new American republic coincided with a radical shift in understandings of race.)
7) What ideas about race did American thinkers propose in this era? (Informed by European anthropology and republican optimism, Americans confronted their own uniquely problematic racial landscape.)
8) What do you think of these criticisms of democracy? What is the difference between "pure democracy" and republicanism? (In both private correspondence and published works, many of the nation's founders argued that pure democracy would lead to anarchy.)
9) In what ways did Jefferson's ideas and policies differ from those of the Federalists? (Jefferson set out to differentiate his administration from the Federalists.)
10) In what ways did ideas about citizenship evolve in this period? (The definition of citizenship was changing.)
11) What is your reaction to this image? What, if anything does it tell you about life in the Early Republic?
12) What was meant by the term "Republican Motherhood?" What does it tell you about gender roles during this period? (Republican Motherhood)
13) What were the key goals, policies and achievements of Jefferson's Presidency? (Jefferson as President)
14) What were the core elements of Jefferson's ideology? (his own political ideology)
15) What were the core elements of Jefferson's foreign policy? (Jefferson's foreign policy)
16) What were the political and ideological differences between Jefferson's Democratic Republicans and the Federalists? (Federalists)
17) What were the key factors in the relations between the United States and Indigenous peoples at this time? (Native American Power and the United States)
18) What was the role of Indigenous diplomats in early US history? (Native American diplomats)
19) What do you learn from this image of Seneca leader Red Jacket? (https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003670111/)
20) Describe the coalition of pan-tribal alliances that Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa tried to build. What were their goals? (Tecumseh and his brother, Tenskwatawa, the Prophet, helped envision an alliance of North America's Indigenous populations to halt the encroachments of the United States.)
21) What was the Western Confederacy, and what were its goals? ("Western Confederacy")
22) What is your reaction to this painting of the prophet Tenskwatawa?
23) What was the historical significance of the Battle of Horseshoe Bend? (Battle of Horseshoe Bend)
24) What role did Tecumseh's coalition play in the War of 1812? (The War of 1812)
25) What were the causes of the war of 1812? (The War of 1812 stemmed from American entanglement in two distinct sets of international issues.)
26) What was impressment, and why was it a major foreign policy issue in this period? (Impressments)
27) What were the proposals of the Hartford Convention? (Hartford, Connecticut)
28) What were the long term impacts of the War of 1812? (The Treaty of Ghent essentially returned relations between the United States and Britain to their prewar status.)
29) What was the American System? Describe the elements and goals of this plan. (American System)
30) What was the Monroe Doctrine? (The Monroe Doctrine)