APU HIST101 ALL WEEKS FORUMS

FORUMS
WEEK 2Choose one of the following questions to answer and respond to at least four other postings.

1. What was the impact of the Columbian Exchange on the Americas, Europe, and Africa?

2. What role did Africans play in the expansion of the Atlantic slave trade? What role did Europeans play?

3. The Puritans of Massachusetts Bay had
fled an established church and religious persecution in England. Why,
then, did they promptly establish their own church and persecute
dissenters?

4. What was the role of the colonies in the British mercantilist system?

5. In what ways did the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening prompt Americans to challenge traditional sources of authority?WEEK 3Please choose one of the following questions to answer:

1.
Who was to blame for Britain’s failure to win a quick victory over the
American rebels: General Howe, General Burgoyne, or the ministers in
London? Explain your answer.

2. Why have the Loyalists largely been forgotten in history? Do you
believe they acted out of patriotism to Britain or out of
self-interest? Explain.

3. How did
Jeffersonian policy encourage expansions westward? Why did Jefferson
and other expansionists believe the West was crucial to the well-being
of the republic?

4. How did the decisions of the Supreme Court between 1801-1820 affect
the nation’s understanding of the Constitution? How did they change
American society? WEEK 4

Please choose one of the following questions to answer:

1. How did the Louisiana Purchase transform America’s understanding of itself?

2. Could the War of 1812 be considered America’s second war for independence? Explain.

3. How did republican ideas shape marital relations and expectations?

4. Why did Jackson support Indian Removal? Did Removal help to
preserve, or to destroy, Native American culture? Explain your answer.

5. In what
ways did the emerging industrial economy conflict with artisan
republicanism? How did wage laborers respond to the new economy?WEEK 5Please respond to one of the following initial questions;

1. What were the main beliefs of transcendentalism, and how did American writers incorporate them into their work?

2. How did black social thought change over the first half of the
nineteenth century? What role did black activists play in the abolition
movement?

3. How do you explain the appearance of the women’s rights movement?
What were its goals and why did they arouse intense opposition?

4. By 1860, what different groups made up the South’s increasingly
complex society? How did these groups interact in the political arena?

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Choose one of the following questions to discuss:

1. What issues were resolved by the Compromise of 1850? Who benefited more from its terms, the North or the South? Why?
2. What was Lincoln’s position on slavery in the 1850s? Did it differ from that of Stephen Douglas?

3.
In the first years of the war, what were the political and military
strategies of each side? Which was the more successful? Why?

4. How did the emancipation edict affect the politics and military affairs of the North?

5. Why did the North win the Civil War?WEEK 7
Choose one of the following questions to answer:

1. Why did ex-slaves, struggling for freedom after emancipation resist working for wages?

2. To what extent was President Johnson responsible for the radicalization of the Republican Party in 1866?

3. Why did the ex-slaves’ struggle for land result in the sharecropping system?

4.
Do you believe that the failure of Reconstruction was primarily a
failure of leadership? Or, do you think that the outcome might have been
different had Lincoln lived, or had chosen a different vice president?WEEK 8In
this forum I want you to provide me with your concluding thoughts about
the topics you learned during the course. I do not want you to focus on
all that you learned, but on at least 2 issues that you found of
interest.