Discuss the following in detail and in your own word of
nothing less than 5 sentences per discussion based on the textbook provided.
1. Discussion: Hamilton v. Jefferson Consider Alexander Hamilton’s and Thomas Jefferson’s
competing visions for America. Which of these visions predominates in
today’s United States?
2. Discussion: Evaluating the Thomas
Jefferson Administration How do you
rate Thomas Jefferson as president? One of the best? One of the worst?
Mediocre? Why?
3. Discussion: Modern-Day Manifest Destiny? Has the U.S. gotten over its sense of “Manifest
Destiny,” or is the impulse just as strong today as it was in the mid
-1800s? Do we still want to spread our culture and ideas to other nations? Give
examples.
4. Discussion: Civil War Inevitability At what point did the Civil War become inevitable?
Choose an event, a person, a publication, a law, or a group that purposely or
inadvertently set an irrevocable course toward Civil War.
5. Discussion: Why was Reconstruction a Failure? Most historians agree that Reconstruction was generally a
failure. In your view, what were some of the positive accomplishments during
the Reconstruction Era? What could have been done to have made the postwar
period more effective in uniting the North with the South and establishing the freedmen’s’
citizenship?
6. Discussion: What topic, person, or time period in
History 1301 was most interesting to you? If
you had the opportunity to travel back in time from 1492 to 1877, what year
would you choose? Where would you go (United States only)? Who would you
see (Americans only)? What would you do, and why?
Below is the link for the textbook
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20203/20203-h/20203-h.htm
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