Kendra- History Dis-
Please answer your assigned discussion question associated with this week’s assigned reading in paragraph form (5 – 7 sentences minimum). Once you have made your initial post, respond to two other forum posts, elaborating on the answer that the author has written in paragraph form (5 – 7 sentences)
Chapter 9 and 10 Discussion Forum
Please answer one of the below discussion questions associated with this week’s assigned reading in paragraph form (7-10 sentences minimum). Once you have made your initial post, respond to one other forum post, elaborating on the answer that the author has written in paragraph form (7 – 10 sentences).
Summarize the issues and ideas that promoted sectional conflict during this era.
How did the promotion of a national American System encourage westward expansion and the unification of state economies, which would at the same time rekindle the sectional controversy over slavery?
Why did the North and South oppose federally funded “internal improvements” such as roads, canals, and eventually railroads, which would bring western commodities and products to the East?
Why did the establishment of the Bank of the United States generate regional tensions between the western frontier regions and the eastern seaboard?
Chapter 11 and 13 Discussion Forum
Analyze how enslaved peoples responded to the inhumanity of their situation.
Chapter 14 and 15 Discussion Forum
Why did President Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation? What were the social and political effects of the document?
