Question 1

• How did the Seven Year's War change the approach of the British imperial government toward the colonies?

• Explain how that led to a crisis over representation and taxation.

Question 2

• Discuss the participation of women in the American Revolution, and changes the political philosophy of republicanism brought for women in the wake of the Revolution.

Question 3

• How did the authors of the Constitution create a balance between federal and state governments, and between large and small states?

• What compromises did the Constitution make on the institution of slavery?

Question 4

• In what ways did Jefferson's presidency betray his original vision for the new republic?

In what ways did it fulfill that vision?

Question 5

What improvements did the new "cult of domesticity" bring to women's lives, and what disadvantages did the new conception of femininity have

Question 6

Explain the "American System" and its benefits.

Question 7

• Discuss the different working conditions of slaves in the antebellum South.

Question 8

• Who was William Lloyd Garrison?

• How did he and other abolitionists change conceptions of race in American society?

Question 9

• How did the victory over Mexico intensify the political conflict over slavery?

Question 10
How did slaves turn the war for the Union into a war for liberation?

Question 11

• What did freedom mean to African-Americans in the South after the Civil War?

• How did former slaveholders define their freedom and that of their former slaves?

• Discuss Radical Reconstruction as a Constitutional Revolution.