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Monroe Doctrine. Once all reading is complete, respond to the following items:
The Monroe Doctrine became one of the crucial foundations of American foreign policy over the next century; what was the occasion for Monroe's articulation of this doctrine, and what were the circumstances motivating its adoption?
Question 1: What reasons were used by Monroe to justify this foreign policy pronouncement, and how do they relate to arguments made during the revolutionary and early republic periods?
- ANSWERS MUST ME MINIMUM 200 WORDS
Information included in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; scroll down the document at this website and read through account by ex-slave Harriet Jacobs. Once all reading is complete, respond to the following item(s):
Question 1: What does this account reveal about the nature of slavery and how slavery affected southern society?
Question 2: How did Jacobs resist the sexual predation of her master?
Question 3: Describe the relationship between Jacobs and her mistress.
- ANSWERS MUST ME MINIMUM 200 WORDS
Emancipation Proclamation Transcript. Once all reading is complete, respond to the following items:
In early 1863, President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Question 1: Why did Lincoln decide to issue the Proclamation at this particular time?
Question 2: What factors determined this decision?
Question 3: What did the President hope to gain?
Question 4: What were the limitations of the Proclamation, and what was its larger historical significance?
- ANSWERS MUST ME MINIMUM 200 WORDS
Information included in the Mississippi Black Code (recommend that you view the article in Firefox). Once all reading is complete, respond to the following item(s):
During Reconstruction, Black Codes were enacted in several former states in the Confederacy. A Republican-controlled Congress would later react to suppress these codes.
Question 1: What ultimately were these codes designed to do?
Question 2: Precisely how did the codes aim to accomplish these objectives?
- ANSWERS MUST ME MINIMUM 200 WORDS.