APU HIST101 WEEK 2 AND WEEK 3 FORUM

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
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