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EXAM
1. Why did Native Americans react in the way they did to their contact with Europeans? 2. How important were Puritan attitudes toward women in producing the Salem witchcraft trials? 3. What role did rural Americans experience of the market in the mid-18th century play in their willingness to revolt against the British? OR Why did the expansion of the market in the 18th century not have the same impact as the 'market revolution' of the 19th century? 4. Did the Great Awakening help the colonies come together to resist the British? 5. To what extent did the colonial elite shape and direct the Revolution? 6. Why did the divisions and violence of the years immediately after the Revolutionary war not produce another revolution? 7. Why was there so little conflict between slaveholding and non-slaveholding whites in the 19th century South? 8. What role did nineteenth century reform movements play in the formation of the middle class? 9. To what extent was the market revolution responsible for making slavery the dominant political issue of the 19th century? 10. Why did a majority of Americans reject compromise on the issue of slavery in the 1860 elections?
1. Did the process of colonial development erode or preserve the distinct cultures of the initial settlements? 2. What role did gender play in the development of racism in the American colonies? 3. Why did eighteenth-century Americans respond to religious revival? 4. Was the Constitution a counter-revolution? 5. Did urban workers develop class consciousness in the early 19th century? 6. What does the minstrel show reveal about the nature of the 19th century American culture? 7. What impact did the market revolution have on American women? 8. How important was culture in shaping the Second Party System? 9. To what extent was the spread of the market responsible for the emergence of an abolitionist movement? 10. Why did the Civil War, which was intended to prevent change, produce change?
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