1. After reading Chapter 8 and any one of primary source readings:...

1. After reading Chapter 8 and any one of primary source readings: How did the expanding economy impact the lives of workers, professionals, and women? How did economic changes transform the American class system and the relationships among classes?

James Madison Asks Congress to Support Internal Improvements, 1815

A Traveler Describes Life Along the Erie Canal, 1829

Maria Stewart bemoans the consequences of racism, 1832

Harriet H. Robinson Remembers a Mill Workers' Strike, 1836

Alexis de Tocqueville, "How Americans Understand the Equality of the Sexes," 1840 (Links to an external site.)

2. After reading Chapter 9 and any two of the sources below, address the following: What role did cotton production and slavery play in the South's economic and social development? What does the author of Chapter 9 - and Frederick Douglas - think was the worst thing about slavery? What do you think? What does the institution of slavery suggest about American values and how they have changed over time? What factors made the South distinct from the rest of the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century?

Nat Turner explains the Southampton rebellion, 1831

Harriet Jacobs on Rape and Slavery, 1860

Solomon Northup Describes a Slave Market, 1841

George Fitzhugh Argues that Slavery is Better than Liberty and Equality, 1854

Five Myths about Frederick Douglas (Washington Post, February 10, 2017)