outline for week 9 (week of wed. 21 november 2007) final exam scheduling: 10:00 class scheduled for...

Outline for Week 9 (week of Wed. 21 November 2007)

Final Exam Scheduling: 10:00 class scheduled for 10:00 Weds Dec 52:00 class scheduled for 12:00 Weds Dec 5Joint time scheduled for 8:00 a.m Weds Dec 5

“Peaceful” Revolution: Authoritarian Visions and Popular Ideals 1. Authoritarian and Democratic variants of republicanism:

a. Challenges of the French & Haitian Revolutions (1789-1803)b. Jeffersonian expansionism and republicanismc. transitions to Jacksonian Democracy and nationalist expansionism

2. Rebellion and Resistance in an era of Imperial Expansion:a. Gabriel Prosser and the rebellion of 1800b. Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa, ca 1810-1815c. Denmark Vesey and the rebellion of 1822d. David Walker’s Appeal of 1829e. Nathaniel Turner and the rebellion of 1830

3. Remaking Nationalism after the War of 1812

Before Next Meeting (Monday)• Read in Henretta, pp. 288-321;

• Be prepared to discuss material from Critical Thinking Module “The Transportation Revolution”

http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/historymodules/CTM/typindex.htm

• Be prepared to discuss the following voices: “Lucy Larcom” (p. 298); “John Gough” (p 318)

Questions for discussion from Week 9 (from syllabus):

1. How did “republicanism” affect race relations in the new republic? How did it affect gender roles? How did that vary with race and class?

2. How did Americans respond to rumors of slave rebellions and resistance after 1790? What do the responses to Gabriel’s rebellion, Vesey’s rebellion, and Turner’s rebellion reveal about how Americans thought about violence, justice, and the rule of law?

Voices: Jacob Stroyer (South Carolina, ca. 1830s), Frances Trollope (Indiana, ca. 1830), National Assembly (France, 1789), Thomas Jefferson (Virginia, 1800), Robert Sutcliff (Virginia, 1804), Solomon (Brookfield Plantation, 1800), J. Gadsen (Florida, 1818); Achades (Charleston, 1822), Intendant Hamilton (Charleston, 1822), L.H. Kennedy (Charleston, 1822), Monday Gell (Charleston, 1822), Richmond Enquirer (Virginia, 1831), Thomas R. Gray (Southampton County, 1831), Harriet Ann Jacobs (Edenton, NC, ca. 1830s)

The Changing Political Landscapes of Constitutional America:

•The (gradual & limited) Expansion of White Male Suffrage, 1800-1830

http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/historymodules/modules/mod09/imap.htm

•The impact of the French and Haitian Revolutions, 1789-1803

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3narr5.html

•Anti-French rhetoric in the American Federalist tradition:

Voices (Henretta, p. 223): Peter Porcupine (vs. pro-French Americans)

•Napoleon’s North American plans

•vs Touissant L’Ouverture’s vision

•Experience of Haitian Revolution

•Spanish cession of Louisianna (seeking buffer vs U.S.)

•French offer to sell Louisianna

•Problem with terms of Spanish cession of sovereignty to France

How did Slave Rebellions affect U.S. Territorial Expansion?

Expansion of Slavery under the Constitution of 1789: Fugitive Slave Laws of United States, 1790-1860

From the French Revolution to Slave Resistance and Rebellion, 1789-1830

Declaration of the Rights of Man

Toussaint L’Ouverture, 1803

Nathaniel Turner, 1830

How did the Haitian Revolution affect U.S. Indian Policy?

Tecumseh, ca 1810

Paul Cuffee, ca 1810

Western “causes” of the war?

Maritime (New England) concerns?

What were the most significant results of the War of 1812? Outcome?

How did the size of U.S. territorial holdings affect the ability to govern?

•Peacetime concerns?

•Wartime concerns?

•Perceptions of weakness/strengths?

•Legacies of War of 1812 for American Nationalism?

-political

-psychological

-economic

How did territorial expansion affect religious expression in the United States?

•What is the significance of Kentucky in this map?

•How do paths of settlement compare with paths of revivalism?

•What Political implications?

How did the expansion of taxpayer qualifications (vs. property qualifications) compare with religious revivalism?

How did the expansion of suffrage affect Jeffersonian Republicanism?

•How does the party in power describe itself, 1800-1830?

•How does the opposition describe itself, 1800-1830?

•How does the Democratic Republicanism compare with Jeffersonian Republicanism?

•What happened to the Federalists after 1815?

The Missouri “Compromise” and the pretense of “Free States”

Primary Source analysis:

1. Henretta voices/documents:

a. Peter Porcupine (vs. pro-French Americans, p. 223)

b. Alexis De Toqueville (p. 254)

c. Republican Motherhood (image, p. 263)

d. Frances Trollope (re: Camp Meeting, p. 279)

e. Baptist Ceremony (p. 280)

2. Critical Thinking Module: access the “Conspiracies and Rebellion” link through the “Stono Rebellion” Module:

http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/historymodules/CTM/typindex.htm

Africans in America website: Conspiracies and rebellion

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3narr5.html

Before Next Meeting (Monday)• Read in Henretta, pp. 288-321;

• Be prepared to discuss material from Critical Thinking Module “The Transportation Revolution”

http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/historymodules/CTM/typindex.htm

• Be prepared to discuss the following voices: “Lucy Larcom” (p. 298); “John Gough” (p 318)