Prepare a 4-5 page essay (double spaced, Times New Roman font, 12 point text, 1" page margins) on one of the following topics:
1. Describe the political, economic, social, and cultural characteristics of the societies of the Americas and West Africa before their contact with the Europeans.
2. Examine the impact of the exchange of plants, animals, diseases, peoples, and cultures resulting from European exploration, discovery, and colonization.
3. Explain the introduction and evolution of African slavery in the North American British colonies.
4. Identify the basic tenets of Enlightenment thought and explain the impact of this thought on eighteenth-century American society.
5. Trace the development of the theory that Great Britain was conspiring to oppress the colonists and explain how that theory became especially important in relation to the Tea Act, the Coercive Acts, and the Quebec Act.
6. Discuss the impact of the Revolutionary War on Native Americans, loyalists, and African Americans.
7. Discuss the characteristics and the political, social, and economic beliefs of the Federalists and Democratic-Republicans that explains the relationship between those beliefs and the approach of these political factions to:
- Hamilton's economic program
- Whiskey Rebellion
- Formation of Democratic Republican societies
- Alien and Sedition Acts
- Kentucky and Virginia resolutions