Choose one of the five prompts below to write a minimum of a two-page essay. You must cite your sources using Chicago/Turabian ( https://www.citationmachine.net/turabian ) style and you will need to provide a bibliography or works cited page. Make sure you format your document with one-inch margins and use 12pt Times New Roman.
1. Why did Jefferson refer to his election as the “Revolution of 1800”? Given the party politics leading up to the election and following it, was it accurate to describe the election of 1800 as a “revolution”?
2. In 1808, the (legal) international slave trade ended. Over the next fifty years, the American South developed a complex slave society. Choose one element of that society (plantation owners, white yeoman, free African-Americans, plantation slaves, city slaves) and, writing from that perspective, describe how you fit into the slave society. What is your role in the economy? Who do you interact with on a daily basis? What laws and rules govern your life? How do you feel about slavery?
3. What was the “market revolution” and how did it contribute to increasing sectional tensions between the North and South in the antebellum period?
4. Jackson and his supporters claimed to represent democracy against the elitist Whigs. Make a case for or against this claim, arguing from the perspective of a prominent Whig or Jackson supporter.
5. What were the main social, political, and economic factors in the early nineteenth century that encouraged the massive physical expansion of the United States?
