Part 2 Short Identification Questions (IDs):A short answer ID should briefly address the basic journalistic questions: who or what, when, where, and why. Each answer should be at least 4-5 sentences long. Be sure to discuss the significance. Write an answer for FIVE (5) of the following, even if you must guess somewhat (partial credit is better than none):”Advice for Politicians”Andrew Jackson’s InaugurationThe Bloomer FadElizabeth Cady Stanton”Go Down Moses”Harriet JacobsHarriet TubmanHenry ClayJames Henry HammondThe Nullification Crisis

Whigs were finally able to wrest control of the White House from the Jacksonian Democratic Party when William Henry Harrison defeated Martin Van Buren in . Whig victory was short-lived, as was the president. Harrison died of pneumonia just one month after taking office and was replaced by his vice president, John Tyler, who vetoed many pieces of Whig legislation and generally opposed the positions and interests of his own party.

Nativists, particularly in the 1820s and 1830s, opposed the arrival of . They feared that the religious violence of the recent past in Europe would flare up in the United States with the arrival of this group; they also argued that this group could not think for themselves or adequately participate in American democracy and they believed that their religious leaders would sexually prey on young girls. People like Samuel F. B. Morse and the Second Great Awakening preacher Lyman Beecher spoke out against the social ills this group would bring to the United States while Rebecca Reed (a member of this group) recounted she and her peers were attacked by a mob in Boston in 1834.

After the start of the Cotton Revolution around 1800, the tobacco-based economy of became less important and the slaves were less valuable there. As a result, many slaves in Kentucky, Missouri, Virginia, Tennessee, and Maryland were sold at a high profit to those with cotton plantations elsewhere.

Not all members of the Second Continental Congress were in favor of declaring independence from England. Representatives from Pennsylvania, particularly , who had previously written Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania (where he compared the quarrel between England the colonies as a fight between overly strict parents and their children) and The Olive Branch Petition, the last-ditch effort to avoid war with England. As John Adams led the faction in favor of Independence, this man led the faction opposing independence. He abstained from voting to approve the Declaration of Independence and refused to sign the document; however, he is one of the few founding fathers who actually took up arms and fought against the British during the American Revolutionary War.

Generals Horatio Gates and Benedict Arnold pulled off one of the most strategically significant victories of the American Revolutionary War at in 1777. Americans captured General Burgoyne and several thousand British troops. News of the victory helped push European powers, like the French, to join the war on America’s side.

Part 3 Essay Question :Your essay should have an introduction with a clear and specific thesis, a body with evidence, and a conclusion that reinforces your central argument. Select the option you feel the most comfortable with and answer it to the best of your ability.Choose ONE (1) of the following options: Describe the rise of partisan politics and sectionalism in the newly formed United States.  What were the major political parties of the United States from 1787 until 1820?  What were the policy goals of the parties and who were some of the major figures in these parties?  How did the election of 1800 help to establish partisanship as a potentially-beneficial, American political tradition?List and describe the presidencies of the FIRST FIVE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES.  In brief, who were these men and what were their presidential accomplishments?  Each of these men were founding fathers of the United States.  Examine their legacies.  Which of these presidents were more successful in their non-presidential roles as founding fathers and which were more successful as presidents?  Explain your answers.Chart the causes of the War of 1812. What were Americans’ major grievances with the British Empire and who were the fiercest advocates for war? Describe the military outcome of the war. What were the decisive battles and theaters of war? How did the war conclude? What were some of the lasting legacies of the War of 1812?

As migration across the Appalachian Mountains occurred in the early nineteenth century, regional patterns emerged in the newly settled lands. was settled by northerners from the Northeast who developed many thriving small-town centers. It became a new agricultural heartland aided by transportation routes, farm technologies, finance, and new market hubs. It maintained a northern cultural character and tended to prefer free labor to slave labor.

Founded in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, in 1789, was the first industrial factory in the United States and set the pattern of the Northeast dominating industrialization. It was funded by Moses Brown and William Almy, but its eponymous founder had been a young man who worked in an industrial factory in England and who snuck machinery and operational secrets to America. That founder would further innovate by building model communities near his factories which provided company-owned homes and community institutions such as churches.

was an American Revolutionary War general and hero. He was a rival of George Washington’s and had attempted to have him replaced as commander of the Continental Army at certain points during the war; however, he was very popular and could have had a promising political career. He was likely the person chiefly responsible for the Newburgh Conspiracy, a planned coup d’état in 1783. He encouraged the army (which would soon be disbanded) to march on the capital, Philadelphia, and force congress to pay all soldiers five years of full pension funds immediately rather than a lifetime pension of half pay. Had such a coup attempt been carried out, it may have ended American Democracy. In a surprise move, George Washington showed up to the meeting called by this man and delivered a speech encouraging soldiers to avoid marching on congress and forcing them to make laws at the point of guns. Washington’s speech worked, this man’s legacy was ruined, and America henceforth established a longstanding pattern of military subordination to civilian authority.