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Week 3 Assignment: Case Study
- Lesson
- 1 primary source that corresponds with your selected
topic (noted in the topic instructions)
- Minimum of 2 scholarly sources (in addition to the
textbook)
Optional Resources to Explore
Feel free to review the library
guide for scholarly sources and videos at the following link:
- Link (website): History Library Guide (Links to an
external site.)
Introduction
The purposes of each case study
assignment include the following:
- To hone your abilities to research using scholarly
sources
- To advance critical thinking and writing skills
- To compile a response to the prompts provided
- To explore a historical topic and make connections to
change over time
Instructions
Pick one (1) of the following topics. Then,
address the corresponding questions/prompts for your selected topic. Use at
least one (1) documented example of the corresponding primary source in your
writing.
Option 1: The American System,
Transportation, and Communication
Read the following primary source:
- Link (website): Of Debates in
Congress (Clay's Debate of the American System in 1832) (Links to an
external site.) (Click on "Next
Image" to see all pages of the debate: pp.258-262.)
Then, address the following:
- Describe the idea of Henry Clay's "American
System."
- Based on Clay's economic vision of America, analyze how
the American System would build the American market and economy?
- Analyze the role of mechanization and communication in
the American System.
Option 2: The Indian Removal Act of
1830
Read the following primary source:
- Link (website): Transcript of
President Andrew Jackson's Message to Congress 'On Indian Removal'
(1830) (Links to an external site.)
Then, address the following:
- Evaluate the rationale that President Jackson used in
the removal of the Native Americans from east of the Mississippi River.
Did the removal have the intended impact?
- Identify the responsibilities given to the President
under the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
- Compare Jackson's actions toward Native Americans in
the context of his First Inaugural Address with the path of events during
the Trail of Tears.
- Determine if the removal of the Native Americans from
east of the Mississippi River violate the principles found in the
Declaration of Independence?
Option 3: The Abolitionist Movement
Read the following primary source:
- Link (website): Declaration of
Sentiments of American Anti-Slavery Society (1833) (Links to an
external site.) (Click on arrows to view all
images of the document. Click on plus and minus signs to enlarge or reduce
size of images.)
Then, address the following:
- Assess if abolitionists were responsible reformers or
irresponsible agitators?
- Explain how abolitionists upheld the Declaration of
Independence as the foundation of antislavery and abolitionist thought.
- Assess the effect of the Gag Rule on the Abolitionist
Movement.
- Analyze how the women's rights movement would gain
momentum from the antislavery movement.