What was the political philosophy of "republicanism"?
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER: Most students will see that at its base, republicanism entailed a rejection of monarchy, but that it suggested a good deal more. Republicanism suggested the need for impartial citizens to put aside selfish desires and promote the good of all. Most republicans believed that a republic required a small, decentralized polity, preferably with close ties to the soil. But better students will recognize the emergence of alternative views, articulated by Smith's philosophy that stressed how a society of self-interested individuals could promote the common good.
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In which state was the noble class known as Junkers?
What will be an ideal response?
This module references the potential strategic value of a Union appeal to African Americans. What does that suggest about the motivations behind the Emancipation Proclamation?
a) It was an attempt to bolster the war effort as much as support a moral principle. b) It was a fulfillment of Lincoln’s goal to end slavery. c) It was not meant to threaten southern slaveholders. d) It was meant to bring border states more fully into the Union.
During the campaign in New York and New Jersey in 1776, British General William Howe failed
A) to capture the port of New York. B) to make good use of American loyalists. C) to amass enough troops for the campaign. D) All of the above.
The Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) is best exemplified by which of the following?
A) a return to the values of the Early Republic B) the missionary impulse behind late-nineteenth-century reform C) the influence of older European economic ideologies D) the power of aristocratic American men